About the Show

A gripping true story of justice, community, and rebellion with a live Americana soundtrack.

On July 10th, 1981, in the small town of Skidmore, Missouri, local bully Ken Rex McElroy had spent a decade terrorizing the community through theft, threats, assault, abduction, and even attempted murder. Protected by a cunning defense attorney and loopholes in the justice system, he had never faced real punishment. But when McElroy shot respected greengrocer Bo Bowenkamp and left him for dead, the townspeople decided they had reached their breaking point. If the law wouldn’t stop him, they would. KENREX tells the unbelievable true story of a community taking justice into its own hands, part True Crime thriller, part Western, brought to life with a rousing live Americana soundtrack from the Olivier-nominated creators of Cruise.

Critic Reviews (8)

"KENREX has inched closer to the West End. This electrifying, brutal and gripping work surely deserves a place there very soon."
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"In some ways, Kenrex has more sense of the mood of the story it wants to tell than the story itself."
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"Jack Holden gives an exceptional performance playing multiple characters in this true story of a one-man crimewave"
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‘With its immersive soundscape and electrifying live music, Kenrex asserts itself as the triumph it undeniably is’
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"Questions about the true purpose of a legal system and whether ends can ever justify means are dealt with, at best, sketchily, but that detracts little from a coruscating example of theatrical conception and execution."
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"Exceptional stagecraft, virtuoso multi-roling, and live music bring astonishing theatricality to a gripping true crime story."
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For a previous production

"staggeringly powerful re-telling of a real-life murder"
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For a previous production

"Make no mistake, this is theatre at its very best."
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