Columbia Pictures has purchased screen rights to ENRON, Lucy Prebble’s new play investigating the infamous energy company’s 2001 scandal that is currently running at London’s Royal Court Theatre. The production will premiere on the West End on January 16, 2010.
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Lucy Prebble first gained notarity for her short play, LIQUID, which won the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award. Prebble subsequently won the prestigious George Devine Award for her debut play THE SUGAR SYNDROME in May 2004, after it premiered at the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in October and November of 2003. The TMA Award for Best New Play in October 2004 followed. Since THE SUGAR SYNDROME, she has worked on other plays and TV shows and was the creator of the popular television mini-series “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” adapted from the novel. She has commissions from the Royal National Theatre as well as The Royal Court Theatre. Her second play, ENRON which is produced by Headlong Theatre, premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2009 before transferring to the Royal Court.
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