Enron continues its success in London’s West End as theatre tickets continue to sell-out, and the play now welcomes a new cast. Tickets are currently on sale.

Samuel West hands over the role of Jeffrey Skilling to Corey Johnson, whilst Tim Pigott-Smith relinquishes the role of chairmen Ken Lay to Clive Francis. Paul Chahidi takes over as Andy Fastow from Tom Goodman-Hill, and Amanda Drew stands down as Claudia Roe to be replaced by Sara Stewart in this corporate fraud drama by Lucy Prebble.

New to the ensemble are Matt Blair, Shane Attwooll Saskia Butler, Matt Dempsey, Simon Coombs, Susannah Fellows, Leila Benn Harris, Derek Hagen, Ed Hughes, Antonio Magro Jason Langley and Ewan Wardrop.

Enron will run an extended eight month season until August this year at the London theatre, before returning to the Chichester Festival Theatre where it originally opened last July. Ironically the show will end on the exact same date nine years after the letter that instigated Enron’s collapse was received.

Enron is play inspired by the true life scandal of a corrupted Texas energy company, who in 2001 filed for bankruptcy after trying to hide their enormous debt. Rupert Goold, the Artistic Director of Headlong theatre helmed the show at Chichester last year, and is the recent winner of the Laurence Olivier Best Director Award for the show.

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‘Enron’ is playing at the Noel Coward Theatre in London with theatre tickets available up until the 8th May.

The director Rupert Goold cannot seem to do anything wrong and it is easy to see why he is so highly rated when watching this show. Credit must go to Lucy Prebble for an amazing script which explains the various accounting concepts at the heart of Enron’s fraud in laymen’s terms, whilst being consistently entertaining. It is hard to believe that this is only her second play, but serves as a tribute to the Royal Court theatre in London for the way it has nurtured her since staging her first play ‘The Sugar Syndrome’ in 2003.

Goold runs with that great writing and ensures that the acting is precise and does not fall victim to large production numbers and grand staging. In fact that staging and the flights of imagination which have gone into the show enhance rather than detract. There are musical interludes and some wonderfully comic throwaway creations. The most memorable, and probably most utilised, of these are the raptors (yes, that’s right, the dinosaurs featured in ‘Jurassic Park’).

The acting is excellent from the ensemble cast. Particular praise goes to Samuel West who plays Jeffrey Skilling, the man at the heart of the Enron scandal and the person who is ultimately punished for it.

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‘Enron’ is without doubt one of the best new plays from not just 2009, but the last twenty years. It is epic in its scale and beautifully realised on stage in the co-production between Headlong Theatre in London, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Royal Court. It keeps its director Rupert Goold in the limelight as one of our top directors and features a fantastic ensemble cast. It is not surprising that it has received a West End transfer and it will surely only be a matter of time before it is on Broadway.

The show will run at the Noel Coward Theatre until 8th May. theatre tickets are on sale and they will surely sell fast. The play explains the collapse of Enron, the American company which perpetrated one of the largest corporate frauds ever. The company’s collapse bought down the world’s biggest accountancy firm with it.

Whilst the characters behind Enron are fascinating and flawed, the surprising part of the play’s appeal is the ways in which complex accountancy principles are explained in highly theatrical terms. It is also the case that Enron was a scandal which highlighted the instability and inequality of American capitalism prior to the world-changing credit crunch.

A starry cast which includes Tom Goodman-Hill, Tim Pigott-Smith and Samuel West make this show one you really should not miss.

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