Still Laughing (Heftet (myke permer))

Morris Panych is a playwright, actor, and director who has won numerous awards and accolades for his distinctive comedies, which have been staged worldwide to popular and critical acclaim.

Just for laughs, Morris Panych updated these three great comedy classics from a century ago. Inspired by Gogol himself, who has the characters in "The Government Inspector" speak to the audience directly, Panych made the lead characters former members of an acting troupe, opening up the fourth wall of the theater. With "Hotel Peccadillo", he wanted to play with the notion of hypocrisy as it relates to infidelity - with the hindsight of Feydeau's death from syphilis - making the author the landlord of his own bordello to heighten the irony. In Schnitzler's "The Amorous Adventures of Anatol", all female characters are played by one actress, dramatizing that for Anatol, the only victim of our elaborate and conspiratorial theatrical illusion, all women are the same.