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Ringside seats to a corporate disaster

THE North East’s business community will have the chance to witness at close hand the biggest corporate scandal in American history.

The political theatre thriller Enron, which charts the tumultuous collapse of one of the world’s largest companies, will arrive at Newcastle Theatre Royal in November.

The tale of Enron is a modern day fable for the perils of greed and the exploitation of power.

In the 1990s, The Enron Corporation was one of America’s most powerful energy companies, employing 22,000 people and claiming revenues in excess of US$100bn (in 2000).

Then in 2001 a scandal occurred of epic-proportions that rocked the global financial markets and sent shockwaves through the wider world.

It was discovered that the company was largely sustained by accounting fraud, a situation which led to its collapse the same year and the dissolution of several major firms close to it.

In Enron the play, the narrative follows the organisation’s flawed men and women through the tumultuous 1990’s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2010.

Combining classic tragedy with savage comedy, it presents a series of top-class performances supported by music, dance, movement and video.

The cast includes Corey Johnson as Jeffrey Skilling, Paul Chahidi as Andy Fastow, Sara Stewart as Claudia Roe and Clive Francis as Kenneth Lay.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .