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Enron (Modern Plays)

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Scene seven with the security officer where Skilling started acting delusional after losing his power was enjoyable to read, mainly because I really disliked the character. I also thought the elements with Skilling's distant relationship with his daughter were too cliched a manner to humanise him. Enron won the 2009 Theatrical Management Association award for Best New Play and was also nominated for Best Performance in a Play (Samuel West).

SPECIAL NOTE ON MUSIC: The original music and sound design by Adam Cork is optional for production and available through United Agents, 12-26 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LE. Even financial innocents can follow this as Fastow shows boxes encasing ever smaller boxes lit by a flickering red light symbolising the basic investment. Amanda Drew as his rival, Tim Pigott-Smith as Enron's avuncular founder, and Tom Goodman-Hill as the greed-driven Fastow, haunted by the scaly raptors which symbolise the shadow-companies, are also first-rate. 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. It was definitely a unique way of telling a real live event and it definitely got the point across about how this company ended up where it ended up.In contrast to David Mamet's unlikeable character who seem to thrive on their negativity, Prebble sees hers as playing out a farce. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. the play was - in my opinion - very enjoyable and i loved prebble's exploration of staging and use of stage directions, a liberty that i never really get otherwise in drama (i'm looking at you, shakespeare, marlowe and euripides). The entire ENRON case - where the company committed one of the largest cases of financial fraud in history by misrepresenting earnings to improve their performance, modifying balance sheets and a little light laundering - is so bombastic, so ridiculous that it's hard to believe it really happened.

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.

I mean, I know that they were an energy and commodities trading company but I'm still not really sure what they did. As a fellow critic, I respect Brantley's right to his opinion; what is dismaying is his failure to see what Prebble and Goold were up to [. I was old enough to know the whole Enron scandal but never really knew the events that lead up to the great scandal.

Charting the notorious rise and fall of the eponymous company and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, Lucy Prebble's Enron is a pulse-racing and rage-inducing parable, exploring the limits of greed.The people in here are so bad as to be one-dimensional caricatures, which I suppose is partly the point Prebble is making. Having unraveled the complexities of the case, the play doesn’t really leave the reader/viewer with anything other than “those guys are crooks” or “capitalism is all a fraud,” and both are gross oversimplifications. Lucy Prebble's hugely ambitious play, covering the rise and fall of the Texan energy company, Enron, is an exhilarating mix of political satire, modern morality and multimedia spectacle. 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. The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did'.

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