Enron (Modern Plays)

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I found the characters quite fascinating and how they justified their actions, and i had never heard of enron. Though it happened in my lifetime, I knew next to nothing about the Enron scandal before reading this play. Michael Billington, critic for The Guardian, dubbed Brantley's comments an "obtuse and hostile review", [7] stating that " Enron 's fate was sealed the moment Brantley's review appeared [. Enron is fast-paced, flamboyant and, despite the head-clogging intricacy of its business mathematics, lucid to the point of simple-mindedness. I mean, this is the issue with reading a play in general, and I'm sure that seeing this staged with some really great actors would make this a more engaging experience.

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. I was old enough to know the whole Enron scandal but never really knew the events that lead up to the great scandal.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? He also stated its failure to earn nominations at the Tony Awards in major categories was its "kiss of death".

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 characters were risky but not enough to be questionable, and Skillings development (or lack there of) was the best part of the play. Enron premiered at the Minerva Festival Theatre, Chichester, on 11th July 2009 and transferred to the Royal Court on 17th September 2009, before opening in the West End and on Broadway in Spring 2010. With a winning mix of classical drama and sharp satire, Prebble tells the story of Jeffrey Skilling, the former president and man behind the collapse of the Texan energy comapny in 2006. 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.I truly enjoyed the recording and I treated it as listening to a very well executed and produced podcast. 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. 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.