Enron Critic Quotations

What is a critical definition of Enron?

What is a critical definition of Enron?

‘Enron is a story of human weakness, of hubris and greed and rampant self-delusion […] and of smart people who believed their next gamble would cover their last disaster- and who couldn’t admit they were wrong’

-Bethany McLean

What is a critical explanation of Enron?

‘The story of Enron is a complex one- necessarily simplified and streamlined by Prebble in order to create a piece of theatre’

-Rachel Clemance

What is a critical quotation that supports Prebble’s use of characters to explain key concepts within the play?

‘points to a ‘gap between the world of finance and that of the general public’ and […] attempts to both narrow this gap and offer a way into understanding the financial crisis’

-Rachel Clemance

What is a critical quotation that supports the concept of ‘perception vs reality’?

‘Through out the late 1990s, the public perception of Enron was of an innovative, award-winning company; internally and externally it exuded confidence and bravado’

-Rachel Clemance

What is a critical comment that supports the idea of plays being a criticism of the society and time that they were written?

‘playwrights work within their own particular world and time, and that their plays reflect and comment upon their societies in a range of ways’

-Rachel Clemance

What is a critical quotation that analysis Skilling’s character?

‘Skilling’s assumption that anyone who’s ‘smart enough’ will want to work in particular, high-earning, high-flying jobs in the private sector reveals a lot about his own ethics and character’

-Rachel Clemance

What is a critical citation that explores the focus of Enron?

‘Enron is structured around the rise and fall of its protagonist, Skilling, as much as it is focused on the company’s boom and bust, and both Prebble and Goold have discussed him as an almost tragic figure in the mold of a Shakespearean hero or anti-hero’

-Rachel Clemance

What is a critical interpretation that links both Enron and Doctor Faustus together?

‘He [Skilling] goes from being an ‘overweight, balding accountant’ (p.54) to a quasi-magician whose stock figures rise with his own confidence, to a crumbling paranoiac who thinks his office may have been bugged when, in fact, it is his watch’s tick he can hear’

-Rachel Clemance

When was Enron written?

2009