Young Vic, LondonThere are, broadly speaking, two possible approaches to Gogol's classic 1836 comedy. Treat it as a realistic satire on provincial corruption or as a wild fantasy. Given his track record, Richard Jones unsurprisingly leans more towards the latter in a strange, rich production that echoes Nabokov's claim that the play was the product of Gogol's "private nightmares peopled with his own incomparable gobl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35PM on June 9, 2011