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The universal mark of good satire is still to make audiences laugh at the worst traits in human nature. Here, in his own words, is how Morris Panych updated these three great comedy classics from a century ago: The Government Inspector is peopled with the most duplicitous, under-handed and shifty characters ever to appear in literature; yet, they are funny. "I made the lead character Khlestakov and his companion Osip former members of an acting troupe, to open up the fourth wall of the theatre. Inspired by Gogol himself, who has the characters speak to the audience directly in the last scene, this is not really a post-modern indulgence, but part of a long theatrical tradition of direct audience address. There are certain literary subjects that hardly change over time; sex isnt one of them. Take Viagra and cosmetic surgery, for example. These are fertile subjects for absurd comedy particular to our time. With Hotel Peccadillo , I wanted to play up, but also comment on the notion of hypocrisy as it relates to in?delitythe play was written a hundred years ago, without the hind-sight of Feydeaus own death from syphilis. To that end, I made the author the landlord of his bordelloto i

Author

Morris Panych, Jerry Wasserman

Publisher

Talonbooks, Limited; Talonbooks

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780889226241

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities