Tim Walker, the Sunday Telegraph critic, gave it five stars, drawing parallels with the plot to that of King Lear. Produced by Headlong, "Enron" premiered at Chichester's Minerva Theatre on 11 July 2009 and opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September. 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. It's definitely not for everyone (as witnessed by how badly the play bombed on Broadway, closing after less than a month, even with the lovely Norbert Leo Butz in the leading role) but for those with an open mind and a willingness to go with the flow, ENRON is unlike anything in modern theatre.

I've yet to experience much else in the genre, but what strikes me most about Enron (the play) is how . You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.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. This describes a fetid cesspit of humanity at its worst, filled with toxic masculinity, crass behaviour and obnoxiousness as standard. Enron premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on 8 April 2010 in previews, with the official opening on 27 April.

Best of all is the scene where Fastow explains his system for funnelling Enron's debts into shadow companies. Even on the page ENRON feels important and original, full of neat symbolism, vividly-sketched characters and those distinctive, subversive, counter-intuitive Prebblian epigrams. Drama-wise this was innovative and fresh, likely deliberate by Prebble to reflect the real company of Enron. But no serious play on Broadway can survive a withering attack from The New York Times, which carries the force of a papal indictment". 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.Directed by Rupert Goold with associate Sophie Hunter, [3] the cast featured Samuel West as Jeffrey Skilling, Tom Goodman-Hill as Andrew Fastow, Amanda Drew as Claudia Roe, and Tim Pigott-Smith as Ken Lay.

But Prebble also creates plausible people, and Samuel West is hugely impressive as the self-deluded Skilling. It highlights the characters of Kenneth Lay (chairman and CEO), Jeffery Skilling (COO), and Andrew Fastow (CFO), their interactions, their roles in creating the scandal, and their reactions when it all came crashing down. This is definitely one of the best plays I’ve read, so much thought and humour went into every scene. 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. 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.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.