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Theatre Arts and Performance Studies

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR

The Government Inspector graphic  

The Region VIII Governing Board from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival has selected a scene from your college’s production of The Government Inspector for inclusion in the Evening of Invited Scenes at this year’s regional festival in the Austad Auditorium on the Weber State University Campus in Ogden, Utah.

Two students who appeared in THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR were nominated to audition for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions of the Region VIII Kennedy Centy American College Theater Festival 44 held at Weber State University in February 2012. They are Genevieve Nylen and Connor Sullivan. Congratulations!

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
From the original by Nikolai Gogol
Directed by Terry Glaser
October 20-23, 2011
USD Shiley Theatre, Camino Hall

Thursday, October 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 23 at 2:00 p.m. (matinee)

Synopsis: In one of the greatest - and funniest - classics of world theatre, the corrupt inhabitants of a provincial Russian village mistake an insignificant civil servant for a government inspector in disguise. In the ensuing panic, humanity is laid bare in all its vanity and greed. With a wild combination of slapstick farce and sharp social satire, this hilarious new adaptation gives fresh life to Gogol's comic masterpiece.

$11 general admission; $8 students and seniors. Tickets may be purchased at the Hahn University Center Box Office two weeks prior to the opening (619) 260-2727.

Tickets will also be available one hour before curtain at the theatre box office.

See below for other Gogol related events!

THE MYSTERIOUS DWARF

Written and performed by Terry Glaser

Sunday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m.
French Parlor, Founders Hal, University of San Diego
Free

Spend an evening with Russian author Nikolai Gogol, as he takes you on a bizarre journey through his life and death. Terry Glaser, USD Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department faculty member and director of the department's production of Gogol's The Government Inspector, brings this enigmatic writer to life in her one-person show, as Gogol tries to solve the riddle of his existence.

Terry Glaser as Nikolai Gogol

Terry Glaser as Nikolai Gogol

Photo courtesy of Pavlo Bosyy

 

SHADES OF GOGOL

A variety of presentations by USD faculty across the curriculum, regarding the writings of Nikolai Gogol and the inspiration

he has provided to other artists over the last 150 years.

 

Presentations by University of San Diego faculty, inspired by the writings of Nikolai Gogol.

Sunday, October 9 at 7:30 p.m.,

French Parlor, Founders Hall, University of San Diego

Free

GOGOL IN GOGOLTHA

Dennis Rohatyn, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy

What is the distinction between banality and evil? Why are they often confused, or mistaken for one another? How does Gogol reduce each notion to absurdity? Why is Gogol’s comic catharsis the best way to prevent banality from becoming evil, and evil from being banal? How does language both elide and erase the distinction? Why does that matter, especially if we care at all about words—and about people?

THE WEIRDNESS OF LITERATURE

Fred Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of English

Students of literature are often taught to create "meaning" from a text through a process of abstraction, coming up with a rational, formulated thesis that is meant to calm down the experience of reading the text, of encountering and responding to its hectic, dynamic, volatile, disturbing, discomforting, and pleasurable life. Literature's "meaning" needs to be drawn from that life, not abstracted from it. Many of the most respected works of literature are manic, comic, irrational, weird. Gogol's weirdness provides an occasion to bring up instances of weirdness in literature, in both canonical and ignored texts.