Theatre
Simon Gipps-Kent had early experience on the British stage that, according to his talent agency listings, included alternately playing one of the royal children (either Prince Bertie or Prince Alfie) in I and Albert at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1972-73 and as Max-Ernst Von Kellig in A Lesson in Blood and Roses at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973.
Gipps-Kent appeared in the production Fantastic Fairground at the Young Vic in 1974 and a Young Vic tour of Macbeth, playing Fleance, in Mexico and Spain in 1975. He played Emmanuel in Betsy at the Haymarket Theatre and road tour in 1975. He toured extensively in the London Shakespeare Group productions of Twelfth Night, which also played a short season at Donmar Warehouse and in Betrayal presented by the British Council in China, Japan, throughout the Far East, Middle East and Africa. This was followed in 1976-77 with Where the Rainbow Ends at the Gardner Theatre, Brighton.
Gipps-Kent later returned to theatre work with David Essex in the 1981 run of Romulus Linney's Childe Byron at the Young Vic and in a Wyndham's Theatre stage and road tour production of Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ from 1984-86.
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