ENRON

ENRON, Directed by Rupert Goold and Written by Lucy Prebble

Enron was an American energy company based in Huston, Texas. It was one of the 5 largest audit companies’ and accountancy partnerships in the world. It then became the largest bankruptcy reorganisation in the world at the time. “Enron”, the play, was all about the rising up and the downfall of the company. A pretty serious casualty to the world wouldn't you think? So why did they try and make this piece of theatre a Broadway production with star wars and Jurassic Park flittering about the performance??
You have to confess, a play that just shows the history of the down fall of a big bucks company could be quite dull. So I will admit the director did a splendid job providing the audience with visual entertainment and a constant vigour to the performance. There was always something to see, whether it was dancing and singing in a broadway fasion, with strong voices and jazzy dancing or dinosaurs which resembled the ever increasing debt that overcomes the company. It was, in essence, a 101 guide book on “The Economy for Dummies”. And for a lot of us students we were educated by the play. We were taught about the stock market and basic investment. However to me, it was a play that was trying to entertain you through any way possible but the words. It really was a great way of making the economy interesting, but for young viewers such as myself, as soon as they stopped the Broadway dances and singsongs and got down to brass taxes, it. was. boring. There was far too much contrast between the script and the direction. You weren't able to get used to the realism or history of the true story because it tried to entertain you too much with fictional extravaganza. If it was naturalistic from the very beginning, I think people would have watched it with a very different perspective.
The play was well supported by good actors, especially the actress , who played the part of Amanda Drew who showed a strength and personality that would be worthy to fight an ox and there was a never a moment when you felt the actors were letting the play down. But I believe the director Rupert Goold thought too much about entertaining the audience with stuff.