Tricycle Cinema (1999)

Commissioned Tim Foster Architects for the ACE Lottery Funded/Brent Council & Public subscription funded

300 seat Tricycle Cinema completed and winner of a Royal Institute of British Architects award.

Directed a BBC Afternoon play SUNRISE by Amit Gupta about the development of the Indian Nuclear Bomb (Producer: Promenade Productions) – Scheduled: 2.15p.m. Radio 4 on Thursday 5th November 2020
Produced 6 weekly podcasts about Covid-19 with Mark Thomas for the Wellcome website & click on stories at the top and scroll down to:- Mark Thomas’s Lockdown Check-up. Available from September 2020 onwards
GROOMED by Patrick Sandford in a film by Nancy Meckler on which I was one of the Executive Producers, is available from SohoTheatreOnDemand.com
★★★★ The Guardian

A staged version of my translation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s “La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises” at Jewish Book week -July 2021.
Directing The Grenfell Inquiry edited by Richard Norton-Taylor to be presented by Tricycle Tribunal Plays Ltd planned for 2021/2 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 2018). Scheduled for production in 2021/2.

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
FRINGE FIRST AWARD
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.

Weekend Special review
Broadway World review
Programme

Nicolas Kent