Lucy Prebble - Enron

Enron Lucy Prebble lives in London. Her first full-length play, The Sugar Syndrome (Royal Court Theatre, 2003), was awarded the George Devine Award and TMA Award for Best New Play in 2004. She also won the 2004 Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. Her second play, Enron (Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre in a joint production with Headlong Theatre, 2009), was the winner of Best New Play at the 2009 TMA Theatre Awards. The play transferred to the West End in 2010. Lucy PrebbleEnronMethuen Drama Published by Methuen Drama 2009 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 Methuen Drama
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It is the authors fiction, as changes have been made for dramatic effect. For a thorough journalistic exploration of the facts I would direct the reader to Bethany McLean and Peter Elkinds TheSmartest Guys in the Room, Loren Foxs Enron: The Rise and Fall, Kurt Eichenwalds Conspiracy of Fools and the website of the Houston Chronicle among many other sources. I would also highly recommend John Kenneth Galbraiths accounts of TheGreat Crash 1929 for an insight into our financial follies, and also the works of Professor Niall Ferguson. I would like to offer my great thanks to those who have taken the time to speak with me to aid my research. Enron premiered in a Headlong Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court production at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, on 11 July 2009. The first performance in London was at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Sloane Square, London, on 17 September 2009.

The cast was as follows:

News Reporter	Gillian Budd
Lehman Brother, Trader	Peter Caulfield
Security Officer, Trader	Howard Charles
Trader	Andrew Corbett
Claudia Roe	Amanda Drew
Congresswoman, BusinessAnalyst, Irene Gant	Susannah Fellows
Arthur Andersen, Trader	Stephen Fewell
Lehman Brother, Trader	Tom Godwin
Andy Fastow	Tom Goodman-Hill
Lou Pai, Senator	Orion Lee
Hewitt, News Reporter,Prostitute	Eleanor Matsuura
Ken Lay (Enron Chairman/CEO)	Tim Pigott-Smith
Ramsay, Trader	Ashley Rolfe
Jeffrey Skilling	Samuel West
Cleo Demetriou,
Ellie Hopkins
Lawyer, Trader	Trevor White

All other parts played by members of the company. Director Rupert Goold
Designer Anthony Ward
Lighting Designer Mark Henderson
Composer and Sound Designer Adam Cork
Video and Projection Designer Jon Driscoll
Choreographer Scott Ambler Enron transferred to the Nol Coward Theatre, London, on 16 January 2010, and opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on 27 April 2010, presented by Matthew Byam Shaw, Act, Caro Newling for Neal Street, Jeffrey Richards and Jeffrey Frankel. Enron The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw For my father. An unreasonable man.

Contents Ken Lay, Enron Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jeffrey Skilling, Enron PresidentAndy Fastow, Enron Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Claudia Roe, Enron executiveSkillings DaughterArthur Andersen, accountantRamsay & Hewitt, law firm (one male, one female) Sheryl Sloman, analyst, CitigroupLawyerIrene GantAnalysts, J.P. MorganLehman BrothersLawyerReporterCongresswomanSecurity OfficerSenatorCourt OfficerPolice OfficerEmployees/MarketTradersThe BoardPressRaptorsProstituteThe eerie, mechanical sound of singing. It is the word WHY fromEnron commercials.Three suited individuals enter, finding their way with white sticks. Theyhave the heads of mice. Over which, the commercials voice of:Jeffrey Skilling (voice-over) Enron Online will change the market. It is creating an open, transparent marketplace that replaces the dark, blind system that existed.

It is real simple. If you want to do business, you push the button. Were trying to change the world. The three mice-men have wandered across the stage, feeling their way withthe sticks. Perhaps one turns and seems to stare at us.A single bright light sharply illuminates theLawyer.Lawyer (to us) Im a lawyer and Im one of the few who makes money when times are hard. Somebody. Somebody.

Divides up. The money. At times like this we are exposed to how the world really works. (I could explain to you how it works but I dont have the time and you dont have the money.) Every so often, someone comes along and tries to change that world. Can one man do that? We look at some and pray to God it isnt so. Then when things get desperate we find ourselves a great man, look up to him and demand he change things.

Hypocrites. Within every great man theres a buried risk. The guy I know tried to change the world was the man behind the corporate crime that defined the end of the twentieth century and cast a shadow over this one. Now as a lawyer I choose my words carefully. So when we tell you his story, you should know it could never be exactly what happened. But were going to put it together and sell it to you as the truth.

And when you look at what happened here, and everything that came afterward, that seems about right. Here, in the beating heart of the economic world: America. In the heart of America, Texas. And in the heart of Texas, Houston. There was a company. MARK-TO-MARKET PARTY, 1992