Review: 'The Government Inspector' at Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium in Philadelphia
First performed in 1836, The Government Inspector–playwright Nikolai Gogol's unrelenting farce on socio-political corruption in Imperial Russia–has long been considered an important precursor to Theater of the Absurd of the mid-20th century. Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, Philadelphia's only company devoted exclusively to the absurdist genre, captures all the pandemonium of Gogol's influential wo…