Enron (Modern Plays)

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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.

The play received Tony Award nominations for the 2010 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre, [15] 2010 Best Featured Actor in a Play (Kunken), 2010 Best Lighting Design of a Play (Mark Henderson), and 2010 Best Sound Design of a Play (Adam Cork). Drama-wise this was innovative and fresh, likely deliberate by Prebble to reflect the real company of Enron.Even on the page ENRON feels important and original, full of neat symbolism, vividly-sketched characters and those distinctive, subversive, counter-intuitive Prebblian epigrams. Enron (stylised as ENRON) is a 2009 play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble, based on the Enron scandal. And, if nothing else, it's a valuable piece of theatre for revealing the inner machinations of an industry that the average Joe knows little about.

This is definitely one of the best plays I’ve read, so much thought and humour went into every scene. 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.Equal parts low comedy and high tragedy, this fast moving play will hold your attention like a gruesome train wreck. The play concerns the financial scandal and collapse of " ENRON", the American energy corporation, based in Texas. The dialogue is crackling, with a lot of really great lines, but the people who are saying them don't ever really feel fully formed. The play is Lucy Prebble's first work for the stage since her debut work The Sugar Syndrome, winner of the George Devine and Critic's Circle Awards for Most Promising New Playwright.