It’s been a year since Jonathan Kent left the Almeida Theatre, after a 12 year run leading the place. “The Almeida has become his international calling card. “It’s astonishing, he says – Kent’s favourite word is ‘astonishing’, closely followed by “extraordinary”, both adding to the animated panache of his conversation – ‘I’ve only discovered, on leaving it, that the Almeida is as well known abroad as the RSC or the National. ‘I don’t miss it. I can’t imagine a more golden period and it was absolutely the making of me, but you have to move on. I felt I’d done everything I wanted to do there.”