The London production of ENRON today enters the last six 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.
The production is designed by
Anthony Ward with music and sound by
Adam Cork. Lighting is by
Mark Henderson, video and projection by
Jon Driscoll and choreography by
Scott Ambler.
ENRON is a Headlong,
Chichester Festival Theatre and
Royal Court Theatre production, presented by
Matthew Byam Shaw,
ACT Productions,
Caro Newling for Neal St Productions,
Jeffrey Richards and
Jerry Frankel.
To purchase tickets call 0844 482 5140 or 020 7565 5000 or visit online at either www.enrontheplay.co.uk or www.royalcourttheatre.com.
