Act 1 Scene 1 Flashcards
Stage Direction: Claudia Roe
‘a very attractive blonde woman of forty in a short skirt. She sticks close to the most powerful man in the room’
Stage Direction: Ken Lay
‘an easy, convivial man in his sixties, greeting and acknowledging every employee with practised southern hospitality’
‘he’s like an avuncular politician’
Stage Direction: Fastow
‘a nervy, lupine guy in his thirties, is circling with an unsettling grin’
Fastow: Talking about Roe
‘You can’t get Lay away from Claws there. It’s like she’s his carer.’
Fastow: Idolising Jeff
‘He’s just a guy, I’m a guy.’
‘Yeah. This is how things happen!’
Employee: Mocking Fastow
‘You go, girl!’
Skilling and Roe: Competing part 1
Skilling: ‘I believe I may have seen her in vogue.’
Roe: ‘That was cropped from a profile in Forbes.’
Roe: Powerful woman
- ‘I don’t recall.’
- ‘Number fourteen.’
Skilling and Roe: Competing part 2
Skilling: ‘There was a great bit on Oprah and her dogs.’
Roe: ‘We were talking mark-to-market.’
Skilling: ‘I think one of her dogs was at number twelve.’
Skilling: Casual racism
‘When you say ‘gas and oil’ people think…trapped wind and Arabs.’
Skilling: Ignorance
‘It doesn’t kill you? Everyone standing around celebrating their ignorance-‘
Skilling: Grapes
‘We don’t have to wait for the grapes to be grown and squashed and…however the hell you make champagne’
Skilling: Genius
‘If you come up with something brilliant - you know, life is so short. If you have a moment of genius, that will be rewarded now. No one should be able to kick back in your job years from now and take all the credit for the idea you had.’
Stage Direction: Joy and stability
We see projections of the joys and stability of the 1990s
