A pocket dynamo of a man who seemed to bounce as he walked along, Frank Dunlop will be remembered for many outstanding and remarkable achievements, but most notably as the founding director of the Young Vic in 1969 and as a controversial director of the Edinburgh international festival from 1983 to 1991.
He was a key member of Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre at the Old Vic, which he joined in 1967 as an associate director with a determination to initiate a young people’s programme; the Young Vic across the road became a vital and separate entity. He helped to start a new theatre company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in 1976. And in Edinburgh he expanded upon the drama programme initiated by his predecessor, Sir John Drummond.
