Jim Kenworth
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Career
Kenworth made his debut as a playwright with the premiere of Johnny Song at the Warehouse TheatreWarehouse Theatre
The Warehouse Theatre is a professional producing theatre with one hundred seats in the centre of the London Borough of Croydon, south London, England based in an oak-beamed former cement Victorian warehouse...
, Croydon
Croydon
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in 1998. His second play, Gob, was presented at The King's Head Theatre
The King's Head Theatre
The King's Head Theatre, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford, is an Off-West End venue in London. It was the first pub theatre in the UK. Adam Spreadbury-Maher became Artistic Director in March 2010 .-Background:...
, Islington
Islington
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, in 1999, and starred Jason Orange
Jason Orange
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of Take That
Take That
Take That are a British five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter...
. The play gained positive reviews from Time Out and What’s On Critics Choice. Gob was next seen at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 56th Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe ran from 3–25 August 2003 and presented 1541 shows over 207 venues...
and earned the distinction of two five-star reviews from Three Weeks and The List, and was included in the feature "Editor's Highlights of the Fringe". Gob was then presented at the Courtyard Theatre, Kings Cross
Kings Cross, London
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, and ran successfully for four weeks. The play was also produced by Harrogate Youth Theatre as part of their Festival of New Performance.
Kenworth had a sell-out reading of his play Polar Bears at The Soho Theatre in 2003 with a cast that fused stand-up comics and theatre actors. Harrogate Youth Theatre produced Polar Bears as part of their Write On 2005 New Writing Festival. The play was also performed at the Underbelly at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
-Events:2006 was the first Fringe following the introduction of the new legislation banning smoking indoors. During a photocall at the Assembly Rooms for a play in which he was playing Winston Churchill, the actor Mel Smith lit a cigar, flouting the ban...
.
Office Guerrillas was selected to perform at Hampstead Theatre Start Nights. The play was specially commended by The Literacy Consultancy in their TLC Scriptwriting competition and awarded a free professional critique. In September 2005 Kenworth had a double-bill script-in-hand performance of Office Guerrillas and Don’t Kill The Critic at RADA
Rada
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. He returned to RADA in May 2006 with a reading of his new play Pig. In 2007 Pig was performed by Foundation students of E15 Drama School.