Enron (Modern Plays)

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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.

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.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? Once the market loses confidence, however, Skilling's schemes are revealed for what they are: a fraudulent fantasy. I also remember seeing that this production was up on Broadway and was very curious to check it out because it seemed very surreal at the time for me to see a production about a real event to include like a singing chorus and raptors running around the stage. 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 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.

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. What needs stressing equally strongly is that it is also hugely entertaining—and accessible even to dunderheads like me who wouldn’t know a financial instrument from an instrument of torture, though they currently seem to be much the same thing…She also knows how to construct a play, moving from savage black comedy to something approaching, classical tragedy as Jeffrey Skilling, the company’s ruthless and brilliant CEO who was sentenced to twenty-four years in jail on fraud and conspiracy charges, reaps what his own hubris has sown. Lucy Prebble's debut play The Sugar Syndrome won her the Critics Circle and George Devine Awards for Most Promising New Playwright in 2003.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The most entertaining parts is when Skilling gets fat on twinkies and when there is a fight between the Traders and Fastow.

Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, the play follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts new light on the financial turmoil in which the world currently finds itself. this book is one that i had to read for a level english literature and i didn't expect top enjy it as much as i did (i susually enjoy the poetry elements of the course rather than drama) but i thought that this play was very well written and that prebble's writing was pretty much incredible. That, in a nutshell, is Enron (the play): the basics of the scandal, what led up to it and the major players involved.Enron is a magnificently imaginative play combining documentarian realism with expressionistic flourishes. I wanted to read this because I knew Prebble wrote on Succession, and I think her work there does a better job at laughing at the characters while still empathizing. The characters were risky but not enough to be questionable, and Skillings development (or lack there of) was the best part of the play. 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.