Enron (Modern Plays)

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The final sense of justice for Fastow and Skilling, very satisfying, and Claudia Roe’s final word, a thrilling “I told you so”. I read this in an English Seminar Junior year and loved how it bridged the gap between my two majors — the play doesn’t allow for too many intricacies of the scandal, but it is an excellent high-level into one of crazier fallouts in our lifetime.

I didn't realize The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron came out in 2003! Enron premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre (11 July – 29 August 2009), before London transfers to the Jerwood Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre from 17 September to 7 November 2009 and then the Noël Coward Theatre from 16 January to 14 August 2010 (after a cast change on 8 May). Enron (stylised as ENRON) is a 2009 play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble, based on the Enron scandal. And AFTER reading this play, I'm not sure to what extent I know the Enron scandal, but I certainly know more at the end than when I started. Not only is he articulating the company’s secret attitude to business ethics, he’s also encapsulating playwright Lucy Prebble’s fearlessly imaginative approach…watching 'the corporate crime that defined the end of the twentieth century’ isn’t just instructive, it’s a gloriously guilty pleasure…a cross between an insightful analysis and a savage satire of high capitalism as moral vacuum.At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became 'the most vilified figure from the financial scandal of the century'. I've yet to experience much else in the genre, but what strikes me most about Enron (the play) is how . The people in here are so bad as to be one-dimensional caricatures, which I suppose is partly the point Prebble is making. But as was true of the company of this play's title, the energy generated here often feels factitious, all show (or show and tell) and little substance. Look, the main problem with this play is that it requires you to already have an intimate knowledge of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, and a whole lot more.

In the 2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, it won Best Director [12] and was nominated for Best Actor (for West) and Best Play (for Prebble). Inspired by real-life events and using music, dance and video, ENRON explores one of the most infamous scandals in financial history, reviewing the tumultuous 1990s and casting a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world currently finds itself. This is definitely one of the best plays I’ve read, so much thought and humour went into every scene. Enron won the 2009 Theatrical Management Association award for Best New Play and was also nominated for Best Performance in a Play (Samuel West).The characters were risky but not enough to be questionable, and Skillings development (or lack there of) was the best part of the play. As with any fictional work based on people who are still alive, I couldn't help but wonder if the Enron players were aware of this play and how they felt about it. I suppose there won’t be a film since it’s supplanted by Succession, The Big Short and other works that help us to understand how these scumbags are fucking with, like, my money somehow? Enron is a magnificently imaginative play combining documentarian realism with expressionistic flourishes. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

They did something to do with creating shadow companies to make it appear as if they didn't have any debt? Once the market loses confidence, however, Skilling's schemes are revealed for what they are: a fraudulent fantasy. Produced by Headlong, Enron premiered at Chichester's Minerva Theatre on 11 July 2009 and opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September, before transferring to London's West End Jan - May 2010 and to Broadway April 2010. But the triumph of the evening is that it renders Enron's rise and fall in exciting theatrical terms, and leaves us with the feeling that, as the bonus culture thrives while others lose their jobs, the lessons of this vast collapse have still to be learned. Best of all is the scene where Fastow explains his system for funnelling Enron's debts into shadow companies.That, in a nutshell, is Enron (the play): the basics of the scandal, what led up to it and the major players involved. Inspired by real events, but told as a sprawling, dynamic tragedy, the play follows CEO and anti-hero Jeffrey Skilling through the journey of Enron’s rise and fall.