‘The Kibbo Kift’ is a musical with Music by Maxwell Hutchinson and Book & Lyrics by Judge Smith. It was first produced at the Traverse Theater, Edinburgh, from 10th to 27th of June, 1976, and presented again, from 24th to 29th of August, during that year’s Edinburgh Festival. The following year, the show was produced at the Crucible Theater, Sheffield from April 20th to May 7th. It also received an amateur production at the Sherman Arena, Cardiff in January 1980.
The story is firmly based on the true history of the Kibbo Kift Kindred, a camping, Woodcraft and World Peace movement that broke away from the Scouts in 1920, under the charismatic leadership of John Hargrave, the youth leader known as ‘White Fox’, and which, by 1932, had metamorphosed into the Green Shirts, the most dynamic and interesting of the uniformed political movements of the time.
For further information about the Kibbo Kift we refer you to http://www.kibbokift.org.uk
Below you will find a link to the ‘KK MUSICAL: SCRIPT’.
KK MUSICAL: SCRIPT
https://www.judge-smith.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/KK-MUSICAL-SCRIPT.pdf
KK MUSICAL: GALLERY A collection of photos of the 1976 & 1977 productions.
ARTICLE BY JUDGE SMITH ABOUT THE SHOW ‘The Kibbo Kift’ or What Happens when you are Persuaded to Write a Musical
We also intend to add a page of reviews of the show.
