JOURNALISM, ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS and (published) POEMS
   
  1970 - 1979
   
1970 Minority View: commissioned by The Times leading up to the election. Printed 8 June.
   
1971 English Stage Company, 15 years – Book edited by Lindsay Anderson. A.W. and others asked: “How has the existence of the Royal Court affected you as a dramatist.” A.W. responded, 1 January 1971. Lindsay Anderson wrote, 11 March 1971, diplomatically suggesting he re-think his response. He did! 17 March.

Casual Condemnations. A study of the critic as censor. Written in response to reviews of The Friends. Published Theatre Quarterly April/June 1971. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Distinction, Hysteria and Intimidation – lecture for the Lahti (Finland) annual conference of writers, 26 April. Also in Distinctions 1985.

We call him Sebastian. Poem and four drawings for ‘Milligan’s Ark’, an anthology of drawings and writings in aid of ‘Wildlife’. Written May. Published November by Margaret and Jack Hobbs.

Wesker’s Diary. Extract from Diary for Stockholm (October 1969) printed in ‘Ink’ issue No. 10, 3 July.

The Shelter Cookery Book: Recipe for cold curried chicken. One of some two hundred ‘celebrity’ recipies contributed to volume in aid of SHELTER, a charity for the homeless. Pub. Penguin.

The system and the writer. Interview with John Adler for New Theatre Magazine. Issue devoted to ‘Theatre and the State’. Printed March or April (so says ed. The issue carries no date.)

Sitting waiting for aunty Ann. Poem printed in ‘Stepney Streets’ No. 2.

Press release re South Africa Boycott. Sent out 9 September. Also in Distinctions 1985.

The Pious Politics of Common Markets – printed in Ekstra Bladet, Copenhagen. 4 September.

Stage boycott of S. Africa. Letter to the editor, The Times, printed 14 September. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Change tactics. About the stage boycott of S. Africa. Letter to the editor, The Morning Star, printed 25 November. Also in Distinctions 1985.

 

 

1972 Exchange with Ed Berman – about his ‘Fun Art Bus’. Jan/April. Distinctions 1985.

Diaries. ‘I’m a hoarder…’ For The Sunday Times. 2 January.

Roger Frith – introduction to readings of his poems on BBC 3. 22nd February 1972.

From A Writer’s Notebook. Printed in Theatre Quarterly. Also in Distinctions.

Journal of The Journalists. Printed in Theatre Quarterly. Last issue. Also in Distinctions.

John Ruskin – an introduction to the reading of his essay ‘The Unity of Art’ delivered at The Whitechapel Art Gallery – 4th June. Printed in Distinctions 1985.

Butterflies with everything (First-nightmares) About rehearsals and approaching first night of The Old Ones. The Guardian, 9 August 1972.

Unhappy Poisons: a response to John Russell Taylor’s review of The Old Ones. Written 23 September. Printed October issue Plays & Players. Followed by a letter to his response to my response. Also in Distinctions 1985.

A Cretinue of Critics – an open letter to Harold Hobson following his review of The Old Ones in The Sunday Times. Printed in ‘Drama’, September. Also in Distinctions 1985.

How to Cope with Criticism – underling the dangers to drama in the vanity of critics. A response to Harold Hobson’s article in The Sunday Times ‘How to cope with criticism – underling the dangers to drama in the vanity of dramatists (a veiled rebuke of ‘A cretinue of critics’), printed in Plays & Players, December. Also in Distinctions 1985.

You love me now. Poem printed in ‘Contrasts’, magazine of Shiplake College, Henley-on-Thames.

   
1973

The Playwright As A director. A lecture. Written July. Printed in Plays & Players February 1974 and Distinctions 1985.

The incredible tale of two displaced people. Article for East London Advertiser about two people living and Flower and Dean Street (home of AW’s grandmother and aunts) who refused to move from the street that was being demolished around them until given alternative accommodation that they liked. Printed 23 November.

The speech I would like Golda Meir to make to the Knesset. 1st draft 9 November, 2nd draft 24 December. Not printed but original MS auctioned for funds for the Hebrew University.

   
1974

The art of playwrighting – an aspect of. A ten minute essay written for the BBC. 3rd February.

Each One A Landmark. – essay for a collection ‘Bookmarks’. Edited by Freddy Raphael to raise funds for Writers Action Group. Written 13 February. Published by Jonathan Cape. 3 February 1975. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Letter to the District Attorney of the state of New Mexico. 13 September 1974. About an encounter with a local judge who turned out to be a religious bigot. ‘…this letter is a complaint about an abuse of authority which occurred in the McKinley Magistrates Court in the city of Gallup, New Mexico on the evening of Sunday4th August…’ Not responded to, nor printed.

John Allin’s Exhibition – in October 1974. Note for the brochure written 19 September.

Chips With Everything. A note for Signora Reggiani. Not sure what prompted it. 15 October 1974.

Ah! Poor Aldus Manutius. Not sure but think it was written for a book promotion document produced by the Publishers Association. 22 June 1975.

Letter to a Killer. For The Sunday Times printed 13 October. About the Birmingham bombings. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Accepting the unacceptable. A reply to the responses to ‘Letter to a Killer. 6 November. Finally printed in ‘Chronicle’, April 1983. Also in Distinctions 1985.

The Playwright’s Obstacle Course. Written for an American Theatre Annual ‘The Best Plays of 1973-74’. Seven obstacles to be overcome – agent, producer, director, actor, audience, critic, after-math commentator.

1794. A letter to Arianne Mnouchkine about her production seen in Milan. Dated 18 November. Not offered for print.

   
1975 East End Roots – review for Timed Ed. Supplement of:
‘East End Jewish Radicals’ by William Fishman, and
‘Point of Arrival’ by Chaim Bermant. Printed 7 March.

Tank – a review of book by Michael Kustow, 8 April, not printed.

The man who would never write like Balzac. A short story. Written 1972/73. Printed in The Jewish Quarterly. Spring/Summer issue.

Clear Thinking And Culture Shock. Profile of Roy Shaw, April. Printed in Sunday Times 29 June.

Forgotten Genius: review of ‘Isaac Rosenberg: The Half Used Life’ by Jean Liddiard. For Time Out printed sometime in August.

‘Not to be a poet is the worst of all our miseries’ – a lecture for Italy, the Associasione Culturale Italian. 19 September.

Four Thoughts – about masks. Printed in Plays & Players October issue. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Voices for Life – reflections on the Human Condition. Essay commissioned for a collection edited by Dom Moraes. Pub. With The United Nations by Praeger Publishers, New York

Words – as definitions of experience. A lecture first given in Italy for L’Associatzione Culturale Italian, 19 September. Printed as small booklet by Writers & Readers 1976. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Dialogue Or Violence – the debate before all debates. An essay for Granada TV based on Accepting the Unacceptable. 24 November. Project abandoned.

   
1976 Critic at the box-office. (Not my title). Observer Magazine under column ‘Dissent’. On ‘is there anyone to criticise the critics’.

Shylock (The Merchant). First three scenes of Act One printed in Spring/Summer issue of The Jewish Quarterly.

Playwrighting for the seventies. A discussion with fourteen other playwrights printed in Theatre Quarterly, Winter 76/77.

   
1977 A sense of what should follow. An interview with Cathy Itzin and Glenda Leeming printed in Theatre Quarterly. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Response to Dale Harris’s review of Broadway production of Shylock (The Merchant). Printed in Guardian, 17 December.

   
1978 Afterward to Shylock (The Merchant). Written for a Bantam Books paperback edition of the play. Abandoned when play was withdrawn from Broadway. Four drafts between 29 January to 17 February.

Look! No playwrights. The Listener. 20 April. Review of John Elsom’s book ‘The History of the National Theatre’.

It was a time of feasts and weddings. Poem printed in ‘Piano’, The Pushkin Press, USA

   
1979 State-right Freedom, Birth-right Freedom. Contribution to a series of broadcasts by the BBC World Service. Printed in a BBC booklet called ‘The Intrusive State’. Spring. Also in Distinctions 1985.

The Nature of Development. A lecture for P.E.N. Writer’s Day. 19 May. Printed in Distinctions 1985.

Stalking The Streets – Prof. William Fishman’s guide to the East End. A review for the Guardian. Printed 26 July.

Arts Ministers – letter to the editor, Observer, 10 October, not printed.

Not The Same. Poem. Printed in The Jewish Chronicle. 28 December.

   
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