The Government Inspector at QUT Gardens Theatre

A self-serving mayor is in panic mode since discovering the imminent arrival of a government inspector in his backwater town. Terrified that he will be found out and hounded out, he puts every local bureaucrat and family member into overdrive in an effort to impress, placate and bribe the bigwig. Only trouble is, the inspector is nothing of the sort. He's a down-on-his-luck clerk who takes advantage of the case of mistaken identity, and then some. Cue organized chaos.

David Harrower's hilarious translation of Nikolai Gogol's satire on human corruption and the folly of self-deception caps off three years of training for QUT's emerging actors.