enron

by lucy prebble

Australian Premiere

“The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren’t smart enough to do what we did.”
(Jeffrey Skilling, CEO, Enron)

A satirical and sexy ‘big end of town thriller’, full of suits behaving very badly! It was one of the most infamous scandals in corporate history: the spectacular rise and notorious fall of the American energy giant Enron and its founding partners Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.

ENRON takes us inside the bubble before it burst, exposing a rarefied, adrenalin-fuelled world of glamour, excitement and risk and the breath-taking hubris of those who concocted the fantasy and spun the hype.  The amoral money-over-everything ethos that drove these traders and executives would turn the name ‘Enron’ into a by-word for corporate abuse and accounting fraud.

Mixing savage comedy with classical tragedy, ENRON follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss, casting new light on the financial turmoil now engulfing the world.

New Theatre is thrilled to be presenting the Australian premiere of this wonderfully theatrical, funny, astonishing play by one of Britain’s most acclaimed young writers, Lucy Prebble (Secret Diary of a Call Girl).