The Government Inspector (Revizor, 2009)

Přidal: Přemek |

Březen 31, 2009

Nikolaj Vasiljevič Gogol. Rozhlasová adaptace pětiaktové satirické komedie z roku 1836. Překlad a režie Alistair Beaton. Orchestr řídí Sally Evans.

Osoby a obsazení: Chlestakov (Toby Jones), hejtman (Paul Ritter), Chlopov, školní inspektor a titulární rada (Jeremy Swift), Anna (Frances Barber), Osip, Chlestakovův sluha/strážník Děržimorda (Russell Tovey), Marja (Daisy Haggard), Petr Ivanovič Dobčinskij (Sean Foley), Petr Ivanovič Bobčinskij (Mark Heap), druhý kupec/Špekin, poštmistr a dvorní rada (Paul Rider), vdova/hejtmanova žena (Caroline Guthrie), Locksmithova žena/Chlopova Wife (Janice Acquah), Abdulin/Liuliukov (Jonathan Tafler), Miška/strážník/první kupec (Benjamin Askew), číšník/německý doktor/Ratakovskij (Matt Addis), správce/třetí kupec/Korobkin (Stephen Hogan), Ljapkin Ťapkin, předseda soudu (Stephen Critchlow), Artemij Filipovič Zemljanika, kurátor chudinského ústavu a dvorní rada (Malcolm Tierney), Avdoťja/Korobkinova žena (Lizzie Watts).

Natočeno 2009. Premiéra 29. března 2009 (BBC Radio 3, 20:00 h.; 134 min.).

Pozn.: Gogol’s landmark 19th-century satire on corruption and sleaze in which a penniless clerk is mistaken for a government official by a corrupt town council. Satirist Alistair Beaton translates Gogol’s classic 19th century farce which, with its witty take on government corruption and sleaze, is never likely to go out of fashion. A stellar cast is led by Toby Jones as Khlestakov, with Frances Barber, Russell Tovey and Paul Ritter. (anotace)

O autorech: Alistair Beaton (1947) is a Scottish left wing political satirist, journalist, radio presenter, novelist and television writer. At one point in his career he was also a speechwriter for Gordon Brown.
Born in Glasgow, Beaton was educated at the Universities of Edinburgh, Moscow and Bochum and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with First Class Honours in Russian and German. He lives in Holloway, London.

Works:
Non-fiction
* The Little Book of Complete Bollocks (1999)
* The Little Book of New Labour Bollocks (2000)
* The Little Book of Management Bollocks (2001)
Fiction
* Don Juan on the Rocks (novel, 1994)
* Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (novel, 1994) (co-authored with Andy Hamilton, after the British sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey)
* A Planet for the President (novel, 2004)
Stage plays
* The Ratepayer’s Iolanthe (co-written with Ned Sherrin) (1984)
* The Metropolitan Mikado (also co-written with Sherrin) (1985)
* Feelgood (2001) (a satire on New Labour spin doctors)
* Follow My Leader (a 2004 play with music by Richard Blackford)
* King of Hearts (a satire) (2007)
Translations and adaptations
* Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (from Russian)
* Gogol’s The Nose (based on the Gogol short story of the same name)
* La Vie Parisienne (from French)
* Die Fledermaus (from German)
* The Arsonists (a 2007 translation of the 1953 play by Max Frisch play Biedermann und die Brandstifter)
Television
* Not The Nine O’Clock News (1979-1982)
* It’ll All Be Over in Half an Hour (1983)
* Spitting Image (1984-1996)
* Incident on the Line and The Way, the Truth, the Video (from Tickets for the Titanic, 1987)
* Downwardly Mobile (1994)
* Mit fünfzig küssen Männer anders (screenplay, 1998; based on a novel by Dorit Zinn)
* A Very Social Secretary (2005) (about David Blunkett’s affair with Kimberly Quinn)
* The Trial of Tony Blair (2007)
Radio
* Fourth Column, a BBC Radio 4 show for writers and journalists
* The Beaton Generation