The Government Inspector | Meyerhold-Revisor-Revolution
The following essay, by Daria Krizhanskaya, discusses Vsevolod Meyerhold's production of Revisor (The Inspector General) and how his perspective forms the play as a satire and vehicle for Bolshevik enlightenment.
On December 9, 1926, after nearly two years of extensive research and rehearsals, Vsevolod Meyerhold premiered his Inspector General (Revizor). Though the production provoked a tempest in the Soviet press and was much discussed by the critics of both liberal and Communist bent, foreign—mostly American—witnesses had no doubt about its artistic value from the very beginning. Meyerhold had created a magnificent and somber spectacle which reflected his pre-revolutionary symbolist past, his tragic world view linked to the philosophy of Russian symbolism, and what appeared...
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