# Robert Kidd

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'''Robert Kidd''' (23 Feb 1943 - 18 July 1980) was a [Scottish](/source/Scottish_people) [theatre director](/source/theatre_director).  He is best known for his work at the [Royal Court Theatre](/source/Royal_Court_Theatre) in [London](/source/London), England.

==Biography==
Kidd collaborated several times with [Christopher Hampton](/source/Christopher_Hampton).<ref>{{cite news |title=A talent to adapt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/mar/04/theatre.film |work=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) |date=4 March 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-29 | location=London | first=Michael | last=Coveney}}</ref>  In 1964 Kidd and Hampton began together at the Royal Court Theatre with ''When Did You Last See Your Mother'',<ref name="Roberts2015">{{cite book|author=Philip Roberts|title=The Royal Court Theatre (Routledge Revivals): 1965-1972|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pAbICQAAQBAJ&pg=PT233|date=3 June 2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-51546-3|pages=233–}}</ref> which transferred to the Comedy Theatre. They later worked on ''[Total Eclipse](/source/Total_Eclipse_(play))'' (1969),<ref name="Riley2005">{{cite book|author=Kathleen Riley|title=Nigel Hawthorne on Stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucs-FWpTjp8C&pg=PA140|date=27 April 2005|publisher=Univ of Hertfordshire Press|isbn=978-1-902806-31-0|pages=140–}}</ref> ''[The Philanthropist](/source/The_Philanthropist_(play))'' (1974), ''[Savages](/source/Savages_(play))'' (1974), and ''[Treats](/source/Treats_(play))'' (1975).

Kidd then directed [David Storey](/source/David_Storey)¹s ''The Restoration of Arnold Middleton'' (1967).  In 1968, one of his projects, [Oscar Wilde](/source/Oscar_Wilde)'s ''[The Picture of Dorian Gray](/source/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray)'' with [James Fox](/source/James_Fox), fell through. However, [Jim Dine](/source/Jim_Dine), who was working on drawings for the poster, came up with his famous series ''Bathrobes''.

He returned to at the Royal Court Theatre<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/about.asp?ArticleID=14 |title=OUTLINE/HISTORY |work=[Royal Court Theatre](/source/Royal_Court_Theatre) |accessdate=2009-01-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060418212913/http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/about.asp?ArticleID=14 |archivedate=2006-04-18 }}</ref> in 1975 for two years as joint artistic director of the English Stage Company with Nicholas Wright<ref>[http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/nicholas-wright/3/ "Nicholas Wright"]. ''Exeunt Magazine'',  12 January 2012. Neil Dowden</ref><ref name="Megson2014">{{cite book|author=Chris Megson|title=Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgbZAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA77|date=20 March 2014|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4081-7789-1|pages=77–}}</ref> and continued his association with Christopher Hampton and [David Storey](/source/David_Storey). He directed Storey's ''Mothers Day'' (1976). When he left the Royal Court, he had assignments at the [National Theatre](/source/Royal_National_Theatre) with ''[Lost Worlds](/source/Lost_Worlds_(play))'' (1978)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/8250/past-events/19711980.html |title=Past events: 1971-1980 |work=[National Theatre](/source/Royal_National_Theatre) |accessdate=2009-01-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212231344/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/8250/past-events/19711980.html |archivedate=2012-02-12 }}</ref> and at [Greenwich](/source/Greenwich). ''[Middle-Age Spread](/source/Middle-Age_Spread)'', staged in 1979 at the [Lyric Theatre](/source/Lyric_Theatre%2C_London), was still running when he died.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phyllis.demon.co.uk/theatricalia/08plays/plays7079.htm |title=Other plays: 1970-1979 |work=Rob Wilton Theatricalia |accessdate=2009-01-29 }}</ref>

==Personal life==
Kidd was born in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh) in 1943 and educated at [Boroughmuir High School](/source/Boroughmuir_High_School).  He married Jennifer Sieff (later Johnson), step-daughter of [Joseph Sieff](/source/Joseph_Sieff).

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