Acting
VENUS & ADONIS, SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC FESTIVAL, STRATFORD 2025
BOB PRICE IN THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE, OSO ARTS, LONDON 2025
Christopher Kent has appeared on stage, screen and radio in a wide range of roles from Shakespeare to contemporary drama. His London theatre appearances include Cyrano de Bergerac with Robert Lindsay at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and The Government Inspector with Timothy Spall at Greenwich Theatre and his television appearances include Shoot to Kill, Maggie’s Baby, Stealing the Fire and Coronation Street.
He took a break from live performance in 2003 to establish the voiceover recording and project management company CKUK Media Ltd before returning to the stage in 2016 with Never Such Innocence, his acclaimed narrative recital of words and music from the First World War with the pianist Gamal Khamis. Subsequent collaborations with Gamal Khamis have included Odyssey, Enoch Arden by Tennyson/Strauss (also released as a critically-acclaimed CD by SOMM Recordings), An Exquisite Harmony about the lives, loves and music of Robert & Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms and his new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, commissioned by Stratford’s 2025 Shakespeare In Music Festival, with music by Felix Mendelssohn.
In 2025 he appeared as Bob Price in the acclaimed play Things I Know To Be True by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell at the OSO Arts Centre, Barnes, directed by Lydia Sax.
Christopher also has a regular recital partnership with the Bridge String Quartet.
Acting CV Contact Forthcoming Appearances
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Recital programmes
An Exquisite Harmony tells the story of the lives, loves and music of Robert & Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, featuring letters, diaries and music by all three composers. Actresses Fenella Norman and Sarah Sherborne have joined Christopher Kent and Gamal Khamis for performances since the live and live-streamed premiere in November 2022, and further performances have taken place at festivals and theatres around the UK, including sold-out shows at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre in 2023 and 2024.
Enoch Arden is the rarely heard and deeply touching epic 1864 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, set to music for speaker and piano by Richard Strauss in 1897. Following an acclaimed livestream performance in November 2020 Christopher Kent and Gamal Khamis gave further performances during 2021 and 2022 and released Enoch Arden as a critically applauded CD and download album on the SOMM Recordings label in 2022. More info about the recording
Never Such Innocence is a narrative recital of diaries, letters, poems and music from the First World War, featuring the story of Christopher’s great uncle Private Percy O’Key. It was performed in London’s West End and on tour 2016-19 as well as being featured on BBC Radio 3 when it was described as "an incredibly moving performance". Performed by Christopher Kent (actor) and Gamal Khamis (piano).
Odyssey - Words and Music of Finding Home tells the story of the aftermath of war, with the legend of Odysseus’s epic journey home from Troy to Ithaca interwoven with themes of journey, diaspora and migration explored through words and music, including specially commissioned works by six award-winning contemporary poets and composers. Performed by Christopher Kent (actor) and Gamal Khamis (piano).
Gallery
VENUS & ADONIS, STRATFORD 2025
BOB PRICE IN THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE, OSO ARTS, LONDON 2025
BOB PRICE IN THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE, OSO ARTS, LONDON 2025
AN EXQUISITE HARMONY, JERMYN STREET THEATRE, LONDON 2023
VENUS & ADONIS, STRATFORD 2025
RECORDING Enoch Arden AT WITH Gamal Khamis AT MENUHIN HALL, 2021
ODYSSEY, LONDON/TOUR 2019-21
NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE, London/tour, 2016-18
DOCTOR RANK IN A DOLL’S HOUSE, STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM, 1994
MORRY BURROWS IN EPSOM DOWNS, YORK, 1988
ERNST LUDWIG IN CABARET, LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN, 1987
BBC Radio 3 in tune, 2021
BBC Radio 3 IN TUNE, 2018
noye’s fludde, london, 2017
PRESENTING MALTA FASHION AWARDS (on left), 2013
A FLAWED AND WOUNDED MAN, RYAN GANDER ART INSTALLATION, 2011
ON THE RED CARPET, MALTA FASHION AWARDS, 2013
REV DR HARPER IN ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, DERBY, 1989 (WITH MIRIAM KARLIN)
LieutenanT ROONEY IN ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, DERBY, 1989
rAINBOW ISLAND, LONDON 2017
A FLAWED AND WOUNDED MAN, RYAN GANDER ART INSTALLATION, 2011
GARRY LEJEUNE IN NOISES OFF, DERBY, 1989 (WITH SUSAN GARDNER)
lysander IN A MISDUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, OLDHAM, 1986 (WITH SADIE SHIMMIN)
ODYSSEY, LONDON/TOUR 2019-21
MEETING HM QUEEN AS CASTERAC DE CAHUZAC, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET 1992
THE COMPOSER IS DEAD, LONDON, 2019 (with west london sinfonia)
NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE, London/tour, 2016-18
cASTERAC DE CAHUZAC IN CYRANO DE BERGERAC, west end 1992 (WITH ALAN BARKER)
ALGERNON IN THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, OLDHAM, 1987 (WITH MALCOLM SCATES)
PAUL NEGREL IN GERMINAL, PAINES PLOUGH, 1988 (WITH lois baxter, catherine cusack, godfrey jackman)
lysander IN A MISDUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, OLDHAM, 1986 (WITH MERIEL SCHOFIELD)
STEED IN EPSOM DOWNS, YORK, 1988 (WITH RAY MURTAGH)
