The Shifting Point of Fear and Trembling
Analysis by ÁRPÁD KÉKESI KUN
Title: The Government Inspector
Date of Premiere: 11th March, 1973
Venue: National Theatre, Budapest
Director: Georgy Tovstonogov
Author: Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Translators: Dezső Mészöly, Pál Mészöly
Dramaturg: István Forgács
Set designer: Georgy Tovstonogov
Costume designer: K. Dobuzinsky
Choreographer: Attila Bánhidi
Company: National Theatre, Budapest
Actors: Ferenc Kállai (Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmuhanovsky, Mayor), Hédi Váradi (Anna Andreyevna, wife of the Mayor), Mariann Moór (Marya Antonovna, daughter of the Mayor), János Rajz (Khlopov, Director of Education), Lajos Básti (Lyapkin-Tyapkin, Magistrate), Gellért Raksányi (Zyemlyanika, Commisioner for Health), István Avar (Postmaster), József Horváth (Bobchinsky, local landowner), János Horkai (Dobchinsky, local landowner), László Szacsvay (Khlestakov, a civil servant from Petersburg), Tamás Major (Osip, his servant), István Pathó (Gibner, local physician), Richárd Szél (Lyulyukov), Lajos Sugár ( Rastakovsky), István Velenczey (Korobkin), Mária Majláth (Korobkin’s wife), Elemér Tarsoly (Ukhovyortov, Police Superintendent), János Katona (Svistunov, police constable), István Wohlmuth (Pugovitsin), Péter Szirmai (Derzhimorda), Tibor Kun (Waiter), Miklós Benedek (Mishka, servant of the mayor), Imre Sinkovits (Voice of the author).
