The play is Lucy Prebble's first work for the stage since her debut work "The Sugar Syndrome", winner of the George Devine and Critic's Circle Awards for Most Promising New Playwright. I'm glad that my library had a digital recording of the production when it ran in LA because even though I would have enjoyed it if I read the script, I don't think I would have appreciated it more were it not for the recording to know how it was played out.

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. The play was honestly amazing, some of the language used really emphasises the illicit actions of the company and really kept me intrigued, even if I knew nothing about business, I perfectly understood the pivotal role each person played in the downfall of Enron.

That, in a nutshell, is Enron (the play): the basics of the scandal, what led up to it and the major players involved.

In contrast to David Mamet's unlikeable character who seem to thrive on their negativity, Prebble sees hers as playing out a farce. 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. The play is Lucy Prebble's first work for the stage since her debut work The Sugar Syndrome, winner of the George Devine and Critic's Circle Awards for Most Promising New Playwright. 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. I haven't been including many plays in my reading challenges lately so I figure I would change that and begin with this one.

I mean, I know that they were an energy and commodities trading company but I'm still not really sure what they did. Even financial innocents can follow this as Fastow shows boxes encasing ever smaller boxes lit by a flickering red light symbolising the basic investment. 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.