Guardian Masterclass

Guardian Masterclass on Verbatim Theatre with Richard Norton-Taylor in July 2013.

Working with Mark Thomas on a follow up play to Our NHS@70, provisionally entitled Our NHS@Covid-19, for the Arcola Theatre (and other media) – Autumn 2020. Also to be broadcast as 6 podcasts from July 2020.
Directing a BBC Radio 4 Afternoon play by Amit Gupta about the development of the Indian Nuclear Bomb (Producer: Promenade Productions) – Summer 2020.
A staged version of my translation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s “La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises” at Jewish Book week -July 2021.
The Grenfell Inquiry with Richard Norton-Taylor planned for 2022 at the Troubadour Theatre, White City.
Producing & Directing the musical version of Playboy of the West Indies by Mustapha Matura (writer), Clement Ishmael & Dominique Le Gendre (composers & lyricists). Click here to watch excerpts from the workshop at the NT Studio (in April 2018), and to hear the Act 2 music (recorded in January 2019). Scheduled for production in 2021/2.

GROOMED by Patrick Sandford, on which I was one of the Executive Producers, is available from Soho Theatre On Demand until 27th August

Co-produced & co-directed THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY NOW, TOO… – a 7 play series tracing the history of child refugees coming to British jurisdictions since Kindertransport through to the contemporary situation for Syrian refugees. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2019, with plays by Jonathan Myerson, Chino Odimba and Ben Ockrent
Directed Mark Thomas: Check-Up – Our NHS @ 70 – at the Traverse Theatre for Edinburgh Festival 2018, Arcola Theatre in October 2018 and on a national tour ending at the Battersea Arts Centre in May 2019. There was a special performance for the Department of Health and Social Care in Whitehall on 7 May 2019.

★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ Daily Telegraph
★★★★ Financial Times
★★★★ The Independent
★★★★ Time Out
★★★★ The Scotsman
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Directed a South African Cape Coloured version of David Greig’s Midsummer (adapted by David Kramer) and re-titled HAPPY NEW YEAR at the Fugard Theatre, Cape Town, in February/March 2019.

Nicolas Kent