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TheaterJune 2010 A monster for our times On Lucy Prebble’s Enron, The Frog and Peach Theatre Company's Macbeth, The Maids at Studio 660 & Norm Foster's The Love List. Looking out my newspaper office’s window in Bombay in 1997, I could watch the daily electricity-grid failures as they advanced across the city like storm clouds. A second or two would pass before the generators kicked in at the hospital—surely a very long second or two for patients dependent upon respirators or other life-support devices. Millions upon millions of people, many millions more marching in from the countryside, but scant power. I wondered: Why isn’t somebody building electricity plants? They’d be doing a great human service, and they’d surely make a killing. Somebody was: a remarkable woman named Rebecca Mark, who worked for a company called Enron, today a collapsed corporate star around which a large literature has accreted: financial reportage, editorials, op-ed columns, government hearings, The Smartest Guys in the Room, and, now, the not-quite-a-musical ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 June 2010, on page 32 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/A-monster-for-our-times-5326
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