ENRON A REVIEW

There is a good, solid and sometimes devestatingly effective drama buried under the pretentious twaddle that playwright Lucy Prebble and director Rupert Goold have heaped upon Ms.Preeble's play ENRON.
This tale of corporate greed which resulted in one of the biggest economic debacles this country has ever known could have been a rippingly good yarn about how the greed of the 90s translated into the economic collapse of the 21st century,but under Mr. Goolds' frantic staging which makes
unnecessary use of videos,flashing lights and piercingly loud sound effects it resembles not so much a play as an out of hand childrens birthday party.
While this play started out in London last year where it became a smash hit,it is cast with locals for its Broadway outing and they all work hard with Norbert Leo Butz, Gregory Itzin and Stephen Kunken giving notable accounts of themselves amid all the noise that surrounds them.
Ms. Prebble seems to have a real talent for playwrighting and her play does have some fine moments in it, but in this misconceived and noisy production, ENRON is lost in its' pretensions and almost done in by its unnecessary excesess.
At THE BROADHURST THEATRE 235 WEST 44th STREET N.Y.C.