Press

POLAR BEARS 

UNDERBELLY, EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL, 2006

"The six-strong cast hold the whole excitable romp together"

Metro

"Like a combination of an episode of Bottom and a scene from A Clockwork Orange"

The List

"Fast-paced plot and sparkling dialogue...an accomplished piece of theatre"

Edinburgh Evening News

GOB

KING'S HEAD, EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL, COURTYARD THEATRE, 1999, 2003

 “Jason Orange shakes off Take That to liberate the inarticulate and dispossessed in Jim Kenworth’s call to arms”

Time Out Critics Choice

“Funny, feisty and strangely touching” The Observer “A 70 – minute high” The Guardian

“Unfashionably honest, this is a storming play that speaks from the heart for the ‘broken nosed and broken apart’, and by the end of Kenworth’s compassionate war of words you really do feel that the gob is the last and most potent weapon of the weaponless in Cool Britannia”

What’s On Critics Choice

 

“Hits the spot…potent and laced with laughs”

The Sunday Herald

“A clever exploration of the British class system, with plenty of attitude”

The List, Best of the Fest

“The velocity of the production keeps us hooked as the two acid-addled, East End street-poets hurtle across London, through the ‘heart of darkness’ (the West End), and seize the mike from underneath the mouths of the literati at a Royal Festival Hall poetry reading”

Ham & High

“Very well performed and with DJ Spike adding live funk, punk, and house music, the play is funny and touching at the same time”

Islington Gazette, Pick of the Week

“It’s powerful, calculated to assault the senses – attacking art, fashion, culture and class”

Morning Star

JOHNNY SONG

WAREHOUSE THEATRE, 1998

“A curious, lively piece…an interesting use of rhythm, dropping in faux-Shakespearean couplets and strange lyricism”

The Stage

“Features two ‘partners in rhyme’ equipped with a subversive attitude and a bongo drum, bringing a ray of lyricism to a spectrum of street life (a homeless girl, a prostitute, a skinhead, and a mad old bag-lady)”

Time Out