Not The Same. Poem printed in Other Stages, NY, February 7-20.

For A Friend (Lisa Appignanesi) ‘Storms’. Poem printed in ‘Write Thru The Year’, ed. By Nigel Gray. Illustrated by Ken Sprague. Pub. Northampton Press.

The Confidence of Boughs. A poem. Printed in The Jewish Chronicle 6th June.

Not tea and sympathy just words of courage. Open letter to Victor Nekipelov in prison. Printed The Times 9th July. Also in Distinctions 1985.

East End Their Cradle – or ‘The Immigrant’. A project for a TV drama serial. 9 September.

Art Between Truth & Fiction. Thoughts on William Styron’s Novel ‘Sophie’s Choice’. Prtined Encounter April issue. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Vox Pop. Letter to The Guardian about Alan Bennett’s play ‘Enjoy’. Printed 9 November. Also in Distinctions 1985.

The Clouds Are Low. Poem. Printed in The Jewish Chronicle. 26 December.

The strange affair of the actor’s revolt. About the RSC and The Journalists. Printed The Sunday Times, 30 August. Also in Distinctions. 1985

In Praise of Solitude – printed in Telegraph Sunday Magazine as ‘Time To Be Alone’. Written 2 November. Printed 24 January 1982.

Two Poems: I Need Champions & Chariot And Chair. Printed in The Jewish Chronicle. 16th June.

Contribution of arts to national riches. Letter to The Times 27 July. Replied to by Kingsley Amis, 3 August. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Why I fleshed out Shylock. Written to coincide with another production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’. Printed in The Guardian, 28 August. Also in Distinctions 1985.

In Praise of British Theatre Critics – for Sunday Telegraph Magazine. 29 October.

All My Years Before Me. Poem printed in The Jewish Chronicle. 25 December.

Introduction to Turkish edition of plays: (The Kitchen, The Wedding Feast, Shylock.) Written 30 December.

My Shylock, His Hitler – (not my title which was Steiner’s Hitler Got It Wrong) a review of Christopher Hampton’s dramatic adaptation (directed by John Dexter) of George Steiner’s novel ‘The Portage To San Cristobal of A.H.’ printed in The Times, 20 March. Resulted in correspondence. Also in Distinctions 1985.

Can’t sit still. Review of a rock ‘n roll show for adults and rough kids by the Pip Simmons Theatre Group. Hand written from a writing book intended to be of reviews of plays seen. Begun and never continued. 28 April.

Programme note for première of Four Portraits of Mothers in Japan. 28 May.

In the Psychiatrist’s Chair: one of a series of radio interviews with Dr. Anthony Clare for BBC Radio that took place during the summer. Published in a collection of the series in 1984 by Chatton & Windus with introductions by Clare. Other interviewees were: Glenda Jackson, David Irving, Nell Dunn, Hugh Dudley, Christmas Humphreys, Nemone Lethbridge, Peter March, Spike Milligan.

Authors take sides on the Falklands. Following ‘Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War’, 1937, ‘Authors Take Sides on Viet Nam’, 1960. (Another was proposed about the Gulf War. Commissioned and written 7 March 1991. Book never published.) Written 28 May. Also in Distinctions 1985.

All Things Tire Of Themselves. Poem. Printed in The Jewish Chronicle. 7th May.

Definitions. A series of seminars for month (June/July) in Beijing lecturing to lecturers and graduate students. On words. On concepts of art. Creation and interpretation in the theatre. On certain terminology. On the meaning of ‘identification’ in art. Printed in Distinctions 1985.

Land of the rising curtains. (My title: ‘What is it about Japan?’) First of two articles ‘Wesker goes east’ for the London Evening Standard. Printed 23 September.

Shedding tears for china. (My title: ‘China – the year of the Jane Eyre Hat’). Second article for the London Evening Standard about a month teaching in Peking. Printed 24 September.

The ‘other Jews’ of the Middle East. About the Arab/Israeli conflict. Turned down by many British journals, printed finally in The Jerusalem Post, 5 October. Also in Distinctions 1985.

The Two Roots of Judaism. A paper for a conference organised by the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy November 29/December 3 on ‘the survival and transformation of Jewish cultural and religious values in literature written since World War 2. Printed in Distinctions 1985.

George Orwell Prize. Award speech accompanying handing over of £2000 cheque to the prize winner, David Lan. 10 January.

Prophets or Ritualists. A response to a record of the Rockefeller conference written for The Jewish Chronicle by Jon Silkin . Printed in the J.C. 28 January.

Three Poems For My Daughter on her 21st Birthday. Printed in The Jewish Chronicle. 10 June.
Tom Maschler: A toast written for his 50th birthday. 6 August. Not printed.

The Disinherited Playwright. A polemic. Written 24 December. Printed in Distinctions 1985.

Individual opinions magnified out of proportion by print. A review of James Fenton’s collection of theatre reviews ‘You Were Marvellous’. Printed in The Listener 25 August. (Followed by Bernard Levin in his Times column 30 August – ‘Darlings, you’re not quite as wonderful as you think’. Followed by A.W.s article ‘But you, Bernard, are as wonderful as you think’ written on same day by not published by The Times. Meanwhile Simon Gray reviewed the Fenton book in the TLS on 2 September. On 4 September Fenton replied to his critics in The Sunday Times ‘Oh, what a performance’. Followed by a Letter to the Editor (Sunday Times 18 September) by A.W. ‘Wesker: what’s wrong with reviewers.’ Followed by an article in The Guardian 24 September by Richard Boston, a sort of summing up of it all: ‘The private quarrel that moved centre stage’.) ‘Individual Opinions’ and ‘What’s wrong’ also printed in Distinctions 1985.

The Disinherited Playwright. A polemic. For the Guardian. 24 December.

Birth of a Play. Lecture on how and why Shylock was written, with excerpts from the play included. Written August 1984. Revised over the years and finally in April 1991.

Miller In Beijing. A review of Miller’s production in Beijing of ‘Death of a Salesman’. Printed in The Sunday Times 8 July 1984.

So you want to write plays? Observer, 18 November.

Extracts from a New York Journal – about rehearsals of Shylock. Published in a collection ‘A Night in the Theatre’ edited by Ronald Harwood. Pub. Methuen. 1982. Also in Distinctions 1985.

The Friends – programme note for Italian production. 17 October.

The Nature of Theatre Dialogue. Originally a paper for biennial conference of Int. Assoc. of Theatre Critics, Rome 1985. Pub. NTQ November 1986.

The Marzotto Award – An Act Of Faith. Commissioned by Paola Marzotto for a book to celebrate 150th anniversary of La Marzotto. 17 January.

Theatre of Gawping. Essay for proposed collection of essays entitled ‘Declaration 2’ to have been published by Methuen. Never followed up.

Occasional Poets: an anthology edited by Richard Adams. A.W. contributed All Things Tire Of Themselves, Old Men, To All My Children, From ‘Three poems to Tanya Jo’, I Marvel At These Things.

Ten Wicked Thoughts – on newspaper criticism. 26 March. Never printed.

Letter to the editor – requested by Child Poverty Action Group, signed together with Rabbi Julia Neuberger and Glenda Jackson, printed in The Guardian 16 March.

Cosy Cottage Corner – AW took over from restaurant critic, Fay Maschler (who was on holiday) reviewing three London restaurants for the London Standard, 14 April 1987. Originally title In Lieu of Fay Maschler.
Only two were printed. One, The Gay Hussars, which was critically reviewed was cut out on the instruction of Fay who had recently reviewed it favourably and had become friendly with the owners!

Interpretation - to explain or impose. First written as an essay called Going For Broke, a contribution to a proposed book never published called Declaration 2. This became a lecture called The Theatre Of Gawping for Macerata university, and finally became Interpretation - delivered as the ‘First Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture’ at the Hay Literary Festival, 29 May 1988.
Published in PERFORMING ARTS JOURNAL No 32 (USA) 1988.
Subsequently in English in a German book called: ‘Englisches Theater der Gegenwart’ - Geschichte(n) und Strukturen, ed. Klaus Peter Mülleer (Hrsg.) pub. Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen 1993

That’s Venezuela. Report of 7th International Festival of Caracas. May 1988. Published in Spanish in Caracas magazine IMAGEN No. 100 - 47. December 1988.

Values not Dogmas: On political theatre. Written on commission for The Sunday Times. June 1988. Series never published.

Love Letters on Blue Paper – programme note for Tokyo production. 8th September.

Sotto il segno del Tory. Interview with Barbara Lanati for Italian magazine PANORAMA. 18 Sept. 1988. In Italian. Title not author’s, and completely unrelated to contents. Written questions, written answers.

Clause 28. A statement from Arnold and Dusty Wesker supporting the deletion of this clause from a Government Bill on homosexuality. Not sure for whom written. Undated.

Blind Faith. On why Israel should talk to the PLO. Printed in NEW STATESMAN & SOCIETY 24 February 1989.

On Playwriting. Commissioned for Blackwell’s ‘Companion to Contemporary Theatre’. April 1989. Expected to publish 1990.
Later: Publication due in 1993.
Later: Publication taken over by Continuum Publishers and scheduled for publication September 2000.

The Cohen affair. Letter about Bernard Levin’s excellent article in THE TIMES of 11 May 1989. Published in THE TIMES 15 May.

Muslims and the freedom to question beliefs. Letter about the Muslim march on 27 May, printed in THE INDEPENDENT, 29 May 1989.

The Belief or the Believer? Article written for and at request of Aftenposten, Oslo, to coincide with press conference of Int. Comm. for Defence of Salman Rushdie and his Publishers at ICA on 19 July 1989.

The Fundamental Right to give Offence. Printed in The Independent 25 July 1989. Response to Roy Hattersley’s article ‘The racism of asserting that "they" must behave like "us" printed in The Independent on 21 July.

The Kitchen - thirty years on. Programme note for NYT production at The Bloomsbury in August. Written 24 July. 1989.

Dear Next Prime Minister: two letters to Neil Kinnock printed in a collection of writers addressing Kinnock or Thatcher. 6 September & 30 October. Ed. Neil Astley. Pub. Bloodaxe Books 1990.

Shylock my Contemporary. Programme note for Shylock reading at The Riverside Studios. Written 7 September 1989.

East Angles – journal of the thetford & district writer’s circle. Letter requested from the editor offering good wishes. Autumn issue.

The Creative, the Interpretive – a difference. Lecture for 12th Asian Symposium – Seoul, S. Korea. (Date unrecorded. Sometime in the late 80s.)