UN Inspector “The future of the Stahl is bright!”

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095317Last week the UN Inspector came to town… or did he?!

David Farr’s contemporary spin on Gogol’s The Government Inspector relocates the action to an undisclosed nation, formally part of the Soviet Union. Hilarity ensues when the President and his aides desperately conspire to keep embezzled IMF loans, election rigging and general political unrest from Martin Remmington Gammon who is believed to be the much-feared UN Inspector.  The joke is of course that Gammon is not the official that that they think but a former employee of Foxton’s estate agents!

Director of the Stahl Theatre, Naomi Jones commented, “The production, which was deftly directed by Oundle’s Head of Drama, Matt Burlington, featured some glorious swan-songs and some thrilling debuts. Upper Sixth formers, Tom Younger (17), and Adam Oliver (18), both gracing the Stahl stage for the final time, gave two power-house performances as Martin Gammon and the President respectively. They showed great rhetorical skill and expert comic timing.”

Making an equally impressive impact on the production were the first appearances of Minty Kunzer (13) and Sunny Woodend (14). Minty as the much-maligned Sammy, Gammon’s side-kick, gave an impressively inventive depiction of the character. Her diminutive stature underlining the absurdity of the President’s assumption that she was the UN Inspector’s Head of Security.  Sunny gave an almost too real portrayal of the image obsessed Maria

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