Enron in the West End

(Community Matters) Steven and I saw Enron at the Noel Coward in London’s West End tonight.

Lucy Prebble’s play about defining corporate excess in the 1990s has played strong in London, though it folded after only two weeks in New York.  Not difficult to understand why it didn’t translate.  Prebble used caricatures rather than believable characters.  Not sure caricatures ever earn sympathy or intellectual rationalizations.  Nevertheless, we’re both glad we saw the show which tells an important story, even if a bit sophomorically.