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Kemp's stage adaptation of ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'' by [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] was first staged in July 2004.<ref>{{cite web|website=edwardkemp.co.uk|title=The Master and Margarita|url=http://www.edwardkemp.co.uk/page6.htm|access-date=6 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=Chichester Festival Theatre: Pass It On|title=Cast List, The Master and Margarita (2004)|url=https://passiton.cft.org.uk/archive/cast-list-the-master-and-margarita-2004/|access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref>
 
Kemp's play ''5/11'' premiered at the Chichester Festival Theatre in August 2005, featuring [[Alistair McGowan]] as [[James VI and I|King James]], to mark the 400th anniversary of the [[Gunpowder Plot]] in 1605.<ref>{{cite web|website=edwardkemp.co.uk|title=5/11|url=httphttps://www.edwardkemp.co.uk/page2.htmpages/511|access-date=6 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=Chichester Festival Theatre: Pass It On|title=Production Photograph, 5/11 (2005)|url=https://passiton.cft.org.uk/archive/production-photograph-511-2005/|access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref> Addressing home-grown religious terrorism in the years after the [[September 11 attacks]] and soon after the [[2005 London bombings]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Spencer|first=Charles|date=22 August 2005|work=The Telegraph|title=Explosive epic with echoes for today|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3646051/Explosive-epic-with-echoes-for-today.html|access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref> Dominic Cavendish considered the play "blazingly topical".<ref name="Cavendish">{{cite news|last=Cavendish|first=Dominic|date=27 September 2005|work=The Telegraph|title=Face to faith|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/3646854/Face-to-faith.html|access-date=6 February 2020}}</ref>
 
In 2011, to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the [[King James Version]] in 1611, Kemp edited twelve extracts of approximately 80 minutes' duration – six each from the Old and New Testaments – which were staged at the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]].<ref>{{cite web|website=Official London Theatre|title=King James Bible: The 12 Extracts|url=https://officiallondontheatre.com/show/king-james-bible-the-12-extracts-116489/|access-date=9 February 2020}}</ref>
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