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Robert Kemp (playwright)

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Name
  
Robert Kemp

Role
  
Playwright

Plays
  
The Heart is Highland


Died
  
1967, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Books
  
Financial Accounting, Financial Accounting: Pearson, Venom for two, A Trump for Jericho, The other dear charmer

Robert Kemp (1908-1967) was a Scottish playwright.

He was born at Longhope in the Orkney Islands, where his father was the minister. Educated at Robert Gordon's College and the University of Aberdeen, he lived in London and then in Edinburgh (in Warriston Crescent). In 1948, working with Tyrone Guthrie, he staged a revival of Scotland's first Scottish play, David Lyndsay’s Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis and, also in 1948, he coined the phrase “Edinburgh Festival Fringe”. His son, Arnold Kemp, achieved fame as a newspaper editor.

Published work

Robert Kemp's plays include

  • The Heart is Highland
  • The Laird o' Grippy
  • Let Wives Tak Tent  : a free translation into Scots of Molière's 'L'école des femmes' performed by the Compagnie Jouvet of Paris at the Edinburgh International Festival, 1947
  • Off A Duck's Back
  • The Other Dear Charmer
  • The Perfect Gent
  • The Asset (play)
  • References

    Robert Kemp (playwright) Wikipedia