Enron won the 2009 Theatrical Management Association award for Best New Play and was also nominated for Best Performance in a Play (Samuel West). In Enron, one of the most infamous scandals in finanacial history is transformed into a theatrical epic. Best of all is the scene where Fastow explains his system for funnelling Enron's debts into shadow companies. And, if nothing else, it's a valuable piece of theatre for revealing the inner machinations of an industry that the average Joe knows little about. The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.

Though it happened in my lifetime, I knew next to nothing about the Enron scandal before reading this play. The characters were risky but not enough to be questionable, and Skillings development (or lack there of) was the best part of the play. As profits fail to materialise, Skilling turns to his sidekick, Andy Fastow, to create shadow companies to conceal mounting debts. SPECIAL NOTE ON MUSIC: The original music and sound design by Adam Cork is optional for production and available through United Agents, 12-26 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LE.As with any fictional work based on people who are still alive, I couldn't help but wonder if the Enron players were aware of this play and how they felt about it. Gregory Itzin starred as Kenneth Lay with Norbert Leo Butz as Jeffrey Skilling, Marin Mazzie as Claudia Roe, and Stephen Kunken as Andrew Fastow.

This one doesn’t seem as entirely resistant to cliché as my favourite Prebble play, The Effect – the scenes in the third act featuring the prostitute and the woman who’s lost her savings seeming oddly on-the-nose – but judging a theatrical production by its script is like judging an album by reading the lyrics booklet, so it may play differently in person. But the triumph of the evening is that it renders Enron's rise and fall in exciting theatrical terms, and leaves us with the feeling that, as the bonus culture thrives while others lose their jobs, the lessons of this vast collapse have still to be learned. The play concerns the financial scandal and collapse of " ENRON", the American energy corporation, based in Texas. In The New York Times review of the Broadway production, Ben Brantley wrote, contrary to some other critics, "even with a well-drilled cast that includes bright Broadway headliners like Norbert Leo Butz and Marin Mazzie, the realization sets in early that this British-born exploration of smoke-and-mirror financial practices isn’t much more than smoke and mirrors itself.As with her Litvinenko play last year, A Very Expensive Poison, Prebble turns an oppressively dry, serious news story into a funny, phantasmagorical and multi-textual extravaganza.