Enron - new cast announced
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
FROM MAY 10, 2010, a new cast will perform Lucy Prebble’s new play, Enron, which is currently booking at the Noel Coward Theatre until August 14, 2010.
Taking over from Samuel West, Tim Pigott-Smith, Tom Goodman-Hill and Amanda Drew will be Corey Johnson (as Enron president Jeffrey Skilling), Clive Francis (chairman Ken Lay), Paul Chahidi (financial director Andy Fastow) and Sara Stewart (fictional executive Claudia Roe).
The new company will also include Shane Attwooll, Matt Blair, Saskia Butler, Simon Coombs, Matt Dempsey, Susannah Fellows, Derek Hagen, Leila Benn Harris, Ed Hughes, Jason Langley, Antonio Magro and Ewan Wardrop.
Following its West End run, Enron will return to Chichester Festival Theatre before touring to Birmingham, Bath, Salford, Sheffield, Newcastle and Edinburgh. Further national and international dates have yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, the Broadway production of Enron will close prematurely – less than two weeks after opening.
Previously Posted: Rupert Goold’s production of Lucy Prebble’s new play, Enron, has extended its run at the Noel Coward Theatre by 14 weeks. Originally booking until May 8, it will now continue until August 14, 2010.
A new cast is currently being auditioned to replace Samuel West, Amanda Drew, Tom Goodman-Hill and Tim Pigott-Smith.
Enron has already won Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Director, and has been nominated for six Oliviers, including Best New Play, Best Actor for Samuel West, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Tim Pigott-Smith and Best Director for Rupert Goold.
Previously Posted: It has just been announced that Rupert Goold’s production of Lucy Prebble’s new play, Enron, will transfer to the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre, where it will run from January 16 to May 8, 2010.
The production opens tomorrow (September 22) at the Royal Court Theatre where it continues until November 7, 2009 and where it has already sold out.
The move to the Noel Coward Theatre has led to Calendar Girls posting closing notices ahead of a planned move to another West End venue.
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Enron is Goold’s third hit and follows in the footsteps of his multi award-winning Macbeth (with Patrick Stewart in the title role) and his reworking of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, which also began life at Chichester before transferring to the West End.
Enron is also the Royal Court’s second successive West End transfer – on Friday, it was announced that Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem would open at the Apollo Theatre in February.
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Previously Posted: Samuel West will play Jeffrey Skilling in Lucy Prebble’s new play Enron, which opens at Chichester Festival Theatre in July before transferring to the Royal Court, where it runs from September 17 to November 7, 2009 in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
Based on one of the most infamous scandals in financial history, Enron follows a group of flawed men and women in a story of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself today.
The cast will also include Amanda Drew, Tom Goodman-Hill and Tim Pigott-Smith.
A co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre, the Royal Court and Headlong theatre, Enron will be directed by the latter’s artistic director Rupert Goold, whose other work includes No Man’s Land (Duke of York’s Theatre); King Lear (Young Vic); Cameron Mackintosh’s revival of Oliver!, which is currently playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Macbeth and Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida Theatre); and The Glass Menagerie (Apollo Theatre).
For his production of Macbeth, Goold won the 2008 Olivier Award for Best Director.
The son of actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales, Samuel West’s numerous acting credits include Van Helsing, Cambridge Spies, Iris, Howard’s End, Notting Hill and Persuasion (film); A Life in the Theatre, Arcadia, The Sea, Mr Cinders, The Importance of Being Earnest, Henry IV, Richard II, Hamlet (RSC), Betrayal and The Family Reunion (stage).
A former artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, his directorial credits include The Lady’s Not for Burning (Chichester 2002); The Romans in Britain, Gladiator Games, The Caretaker and Fiddler on the Roof (all at Sheffield); and Dealer’s Choice (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End).
In 2004, Prebble received George Devine and Critics’ Circle Awards for Most Promising Playwright for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome, which premiered at the Royal Court.