Aria Entertainment and Sheffield Theatres have announced that the world premiere of KENREX will transfer from Sheffield Theatres’ Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse to Southwark Playhouse Borough from 14 February – 16 March 2025.

Following a sold-out run in Sheffield where it garnered multiple five-star reviews, KENREX is part True Crime, part Western, with a foot-stomping live Americana soundtrack, KENREX is devised by Jack Holden and Ed Stambollouian.

'911, what's your emergency?'

'My husband... they shot him... they all did.'

July 10th 1981. Skidmore, Missouri. A man is shot dead in broad daylight. There are sixty witnesses — but no one saw a thing.

Jack Holden (Marriage, BBC; War Horse, National Theatre) performs the one-person show, jumping between characters in a high-octane blend of vocals, sound effects and song. He is accompanied on stage by composer and musician John Patrick Elliott, with direction by co-writer Ed Stambollouian.

Completing the creative team are designer Anisha Fields, lighting and video designer Joshua Pharo, sound designer Giles Thomas, and movement director Sarah Golding.

An album, KENREX: Music from the Play by John Patrick Elliott via Carbon Moon Records is now available to stream. The album brings together Elliott’s songs and instrumental compositions that feature in the play, as well as additional bonus tracks from the development of the piece.

For more info on KENREX, please click here.