Inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s 1836 play The Inspector General, Revisor is part risky satire, part choreographed lip-synch and all urgent warning of unchecked power. When a lowly government employee arrives in town to revise some legal documents, he is mistaken for a high-powered official and spoiled with attention.
Direction
Pite/Tudor fuse Gogol's text with jaw-dropping corporeal storytelling
Production
Minimal set, maximum dread—every prop weaponized
Director
Crystal Pite
Doug Letheren
Director of the Complex
Jermaine Spivey
Postmaster Wieland
Gregory Lau
Misha
Rena Narumi
Interrogator Klak
Ella Rothschild
Minister Desouza
David Raymond
Doctor Harlow / Osip (Assistant to the Revisor)
Cindy Salgado
Anna (Wife of the Director)
Tiffany Tregarthen
The Revisor
Renée Sigouin
Swing / Minister Desouza
Meg Roe
Narrator / Inspector (voice)
Alessandro Juliani
Postmaster Wieland (voice)
Nicola Lipman
Minister Desouza (voice)
Gerard Plunkett
Doctor Harlow (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gogol's original was banned after one performance; Pite's version updates the surveillance state for 2020.
The lip-synch device forces audience complicity—we're watching bodies controlled by voices not their own, mirroring how authority speaks through people.
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