NUTS Presents: ENRON

They sold a 63 billion dollar lie. Everyone bought it.

Houston, 1992. Ambitious executive and mark-to-market expert Jeffrey Skilling has a new idea for energy company Enron: a modern organisation, dealing only in numbers, just like the big suits on Wall Street. When the current CEO leaves, he finds an opportunity to do just that. He’ll do anything for the top job, even toss aside his level-headed rival, Claudia Roe, just for a shot. And for a while, his idea works. Under the wing of company founder Ken Lay, Skilling quickly becomes President and Enron is suddenly the biggest company in America.

But as the stock value goes up, the company’s profits plummet. Soon, Enron's losing just as much money as they make. That's when Skilling’s slimy protege and Enron CFO Andy Fastow has the brilliant idea to commit corporate fraud, right under the public’s nose, on a scale wider than any other company has seen before. To hide the company’s debts by creating false companies and tricking potential investors into putting their money into them. Sounds easy, right?

With Enron, Emmy-award winner Lucy Prebble (Succession) tells the surreal, darkly hysterical and downright weird rise and fall of the company responsible for the largest bankruptcy in the world, that helped shape modern America and changed the financial landscape forever.

Runtime: 2h 30m (approx.) with a 15 minute interval

Content Warning: Enron contains strong coarse language, references to sex and sexual content, misogynistic language, references to death, loud noises, and flashing lights.

Cast

Jeffrey Skilling - Maeve Cox

Andy Fastow - Liam Verity

Claudia Roe - Elise Lang

Ken Lay - Bora Celebi

Ensemble

Lily Boda

Sophie Burrows

Roseanna Huang

Caitlyn Johnson

Isha Lewis

Ella McGrath

Jules Pek-Lowther

Jasmin Schofield

Megan Smith

George Tsakiris

Crew

Director - Alex Mouhtouris

Asst. Director - Lanah Watters

Producer - Alicia Benson

Asst. Producer - Eliza Hoh

Lead Designer - Charlie Thomson

Stage Managers - Sophie Hinchelwood, Isabel Sargeant

Technical Manager - Jakson Millard

Publicity Managers - Mon Benson, Lily Carter

AV - Amelie Araya, Maria Kontou, Jess Nipperess, Felicity Ng

Photographer - Alex Wilson

Videographers - Bora Celebi, Jess Nipperess

Graphic Designer - Veronika Young

Lighting Designer - Sarah Birrell

Asst. Lighting Designers/Operators - Emmanuelle Cushway, Mia Perry

Wellbeing Officer - Ines SL

Asst. Wellbeing - Renzo Alcordo

Sound Designer - Joy Man

Asst. Sound Designer - Sam Jensen

Costume Designer - Saskia Chin

Asst. Costume Designers - Charlotte Jones, Ella Schulz-Begley

Hair/Makeup Technician - Clare Rogan

Set Designers - Hailie Brown, Jessica Smith

Asst. Set Designer - Aspen Lee

Propmaster - Hailie Brown

Asst. Props - Abi Pierce

Composers - Oli Burgmann, Sam Jensen, Mia Warren

Production Assistant - Roseanna Huang

NUTS and the ENRON team acknowledge the First Nations Peoples of the land we live and work on, specifically the Bidjigal and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation where this production was rehearsed and staged. We acknowledge this is stolen land. Sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was ever signed. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.