 Other theatre work includes "Le Cid", "Mother Courage and Her Children", "The False Servant", Oedipus and The Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); "Man of La Mancha" (Broadway); "Hamlet" (Japan); "Hecuba" (Donmar); Bond's "Lear" (Sheffield Crucible); "As You Desire Me" (West End); "Faith Healer" (Dublin/Broadway); "A Month in the Country" (Chichester Festival Theatre); "Sweeney Todd" (Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End), "Private Lives" (Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End), "Good People" (The Hampstead Theatre and the West End) and "Gypsy" (Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End).In 2007 Kent was invited to become the artistic director of the Haymarket Theatre for one year, as a means of re-invigorating the West End theatre scene.He directed three plays