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Starring:
Shane Attwooll, Matt Blair, Saskia Butler, Paul Chahidi, Simon Coombs, Matt Dempsey, Suzannah Fellows, Clive Francis, Derek Hagen, Leila Benn Harris, Ed Hughes, Corey Johnson, Jason Langley, Antonio Magro, Sara Stewart and Ewan Wardrop.
Writer:
Lucy Prebble
The London production of ENRON enters the last weeks of its limited run at the Noel Coward Theatre, before its final performance at 7.30pm on 14th August.
Since it opened in the West End in January 2010, ENRON has broken box office and attendance records at the venue. As well as winning several major awards, the production was driven by popular demand to extend its West End run, having already enjoyed sell-out runs at Chichester Festival Theatre and London’s Royal Court Theatre. The Broadway production of ENRON was nominated for four Tony Awards.
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. The cast includes Corey Johnson as Enron’s CEO Jeffrey Skilling, with Paul Chahidi, Clive Francis and Sara Stewart.
ENRON won Rupert Goold an Olivier Award, an Evening Standard Award and a Critics Circle Award for Best Director.
The Headlong production, directed by Rupert Goold, will embark on a UK tour later this year, and will also visit several international festivals.
Full cast includes: Shane Attwooll, Matt Blair, Saskia Butler, Paul Chahidi, Simon Coombs, Matt Dempsey, Suzannah Fellows, Clive Francis, Derek Hagen, Leila Benn Harris, Ed Hughes, Corey Johnson, Jason Langley, Antonio Magro, Sara Stewart and Ewan Wardrop.
Corey Johnson’s stage credits include The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida), A Prayer For My Daughter (Young Vic), Frost/Nixon (Donmar/West End/Broadway), Popcorn (West End) and Death of a Salesman (NT). He was nominated for the TMA Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Eddie Carbone in A View From the Bridge (Birmingham Rep). His film and television credits include Kickass, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93, Band of Brothers and The Mummy.
Paul Chahidi’s many theatre credits include Nation (NT), Aunt Dan and Lemon (Royal Court), Female of the Species (West End), The Cherry Orchard (Chichester Festival Theatre), Rhinoceros (Royal Court), The Merry Wives of Windsor, The American Pilot, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It (all RSC). On the big and small screen his credits include Venus, The Libertine, Notting Hill, Fear of Fanny, Ladies of Letters and Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Sara Stewart’s most recent stage appearance was Serious Money (Birmingham Rep), while she is also on series regular on The Take (Sky TV). She also played Martha Wayne, Batman’s mother, in the recent feature film Batman Begins. Her other stage credits include Where There’s A Will (English Touring Theatre), The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other (NT), The Pain And The Itch (Royal Court), Proof (Donmar) and A Month In The Country (RSC). On television, she has played guest leads and series regulars in The Prisoner (LWT), Robin Hood (BBC TV), Sugar Rush (Channel 4) and Life Begins.
Clive Francis made his West End debut opposite Donald Sinden in There’s A Girl In My Soup, and his credits since include The Hypochondriac (English Touring Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Guildford), The Dresser (Palace Theatre, Watford), Never So Good (NT), and The Woman Hater (Orange Tree), while he is also a regular on television screens.
Rupert Goold has also directed Macbeth, Six Characters in Search of an Author, which both transferred to the West End, with Macbeth going on to Broadway; Time and the Conways at the National Theatre and Pete Postlethwaite in King Lear. His West End productions include No Man’s Land and Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he recently directed Romeo and Juliet.
Lucy Prebble won the George Devine Award and the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome in 2004. On television, her work includes creating the series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. ENRON is her second play.
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Press Quotes
"WALL STREET’S LOSS IS THEATRE’S GAIN"
The Guardian – Lyn Gardner- 27 Jan
"Audiences who put their money into this ticket are guaranteed a return on a show that is exuberantly staged"
The Guardian – Lyn Gardner- 27 Jan
"Rupert Goold gives a highly theatrical staging to the events that ended in the biggest bankruptcy in American corporate history."
The Times – Benedict Nightingale – 27 Jan
"If ever a play seemed to reflect the times in which we live, that play is surely ENRON"
Daily Telegraph – Charles Spencer – 27 Jan
"This will set the West End’s stock riding high."
Evening Standard – Fiona Mountford – 27 Jan
"Sam West is Superb"
Sunday Times – Christopher Hart – 31 Jan
"Lucy Prebble’s all-singing, all-dancing morality play about the collapse of energy company ENRON"
The Guardian – Lyn Gardner- 27 Jan
"This transfer is just what Prebble’s astoundingly mature play deserves"
Whatsonstage.com – Jo Caird – 27 Jan
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