Prebble's Hit ENRON Headed To Broadway After West End Transfer

Lucy Prebble's hit play ENRON, which will start a six-week run at London's Royal Court Theatre on September 17th, is set to spring to the West End and then make the leap to the Broadway stage in April 2010.

The production, which premiered this summer at the Chichester Festival, is directed by Rupert Goold. For more information visit WhatsOnStage.com.

The first play in the main house at The Royal Court Theatre, the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, is ENRON, by Lucy Prebble, a former member of the Royal Court's Young Writers Programme and winner of the George Devine award for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome, which premiered at the Royal Court in 2004. Directed by Headlong Theatre's Artistic Director Rupert Goold, with a cast including Amanda Drew, Tom Goodman-Hill, Tim Pigott-Smith and Samuel West, the play re-imagines the story of the collapse of one of Americas highest-profile financial institutions, and the repercussions it still has on todays financial turmoil. ENRON is a co-production with Headlong Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre, and will play at the Royal Court this month after a summer run in Chichester.

This season at the Royal Court also sees the appointment of Jeremy Herrin as Deputy Artistic Director. Jeremy is currently Associate Director at the Royal Court, and was previously Associate Director at Live Theatre Newcastle. At the Royal Court, he has directed Tusk Tusk, The Vertical Hour and That Face.

The Studio, the research and play development arm of the Royal Court incorporates the theatres continuing work with young writers, as well as such projects as Critical Mass, which works with black and minority ethnic writers and whose graduates include Levi David Addai and Bola Agbaje, and Unheard Voices, which works with emerging writers from groups and communities whose voices are under-represented on the British stage. The Studio will continue to nurture talented young writers, as it has done with Mike Bartlett, Lucy Prebble and Michael Wynne.

Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1. For information visit www.royalcourttheatre.com.

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