Fears Of Fragmentation. Collection of essay published by Jonathan Cape.

The Old Ones. Written in eight days between 30 November and 8 December.

The Old Ones. Contracted to open at The National Theatre under direction of John Dexter. Ken Tynan, literary manager, unilaterally withdrew play from scheduled program (he and Dexter were quarrelling). AW appealed to Arnold Goodman who spoke with NT chairman, Max Rayne, and Olivier reinstated play in schedule. Meanwhile Dexter had been approached by The Royal Court to open it there.

The Old Ones. Opens at The Royal Court 8 August. Dir. John Dexter. Designed by Douglas Heap. Among actors were Max Wall, George Pravda, Patience Collier, & Wanda Rotha.

The Journalists. Written under wing of the RSC. Contract signed. Three other countries – Belgium, Germany, Sweden – bought rights but told RSC had insisted on world premiere. Actors refused to perform play. Trevor Nunn suggest AW rewrite it and he’d consider it for small auditorium. AW sued for £25,000. Eight years on settled for £4000.

The Wedding Feast. Handwritten MS dated 7 February.

The Old Ones. Directed by author at the Munich Kammerspiel, designed by Rudolph Heinrich. 27 February.

Fatlips. Story for young people. Written between June 1973 and October 1974.

The Wedding Feast. World premiere in Stockholm’s Stadtsteatre 8 May, directed by Gun Arvidsson.

Say Goodbye You May Never See Them Again. Book of ‘primitive’ paintings of East London painted by John Allin. Text by A.W. consisted of Allin talking about his background, and AW talking about his. Published by Jonathan Cape in hardback and (slightly altered) paperback.

Love Letters On Blue Paper. Collection of stories published by Jonathan Cape. Includes: Love Letters On Blue Paper, long short story; The Man Who Became Afraid, short story; A Time Of Dying, a diary story.

The Merchant (later retitled ‘Shylock’). Begun writing 7 February.

The Journalists. Jackson’s Lane Theatre. Only professional performance in UK was a reading by professional actors to raise funds for the Jacksons Lane Community Centre in Highgate. Two readings in afternoon and evening of 13 July. Directed by Michael Kustow. Designed by Hayden Griffin.

Shylock (known then as ‘The Merchant’). World premiere in Stockholm at The Royal Dramatic theatre. 8 October. Directed by Staphan Roos.

Love Letters On Blue Paper. TV version written May 1975, transmitted 2 March.

Words – as definitions of experience. Long essay (written September 1975 and delivered as a lecture in Italy for A.C.I.) printed by The Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative with a long Afterward ‘Finding One’s Own Voice’ written by Richard Appignanesi.

The Brighton Belle. A film script based on a story outline by Peter Wells. Commissioned by him but never paid for, nor made. 16 September to 1 October.

Love Letters On Blue Paper. World premiere Syracuse Stage USA 14 October, directed by Arthur Storch, designed by Eldon Elder, with John Carpenter and Myra Carter.

The Journalists. First UK production was an amateur one given by the Criterion Theatre, Coventry, 27 March 1977.

Shylock opened in at The Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, 2 September with Zero Mostel in the lead. He fell ill, and a six days after his first and only (preview) performance, died. Re-rehearsed with understudy, Joseph Leon, in the lead. Played The Kennedy Centre for five weeks. Moved to Plymouth Theatre on Broadway (where Chips With Everything had played in 1962) and after mixed reviews and five previews and four performances, folded.

Journey Into Journalism. Journal based on notes taken during two months in the offices of The Sunday Times for play ‘The Journalists.’ Published by Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative.

Love Letters On Blue Paper. UK premiere presented by The National Theatre on its Cottesloe stage 15 February, directed by author, Designed by Bernard Culshaw, with Michael Gough and Elizabeth Spriggs.

The Journalists. First professional production took place on 15 June on French radio under auspices of Lucien Attourn’s France-Culture. Jugoslav TV presented a TV version of the play, setting it in a TV house instead of a Sunday newspaper.

Shylock. (Known as The Merchant.) UK premiere Birmingham Rep.12 October, directed by Peter Farago, set designed by Christopher Morley, costumes by Ann Curtis, with David Swift as Shylock.

Fatlips. Published simultaneously by Harper & Row in U.S. and Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative.

Said The Old Man To The Young Man. A collection of stories published by Jonathan Cape. Includes: The Man Who Would Never Write Like Balzac, a short story; The Visit, a long short story; Said The Old Man To The Young Man, a long short story.

The Journalists. A Triptych published by Jonathan Cape consisting of the play, the diary of writing the play, and ‘Journey Into Journalism’.

I’m Talking About Jerusalem. Film script of ‘The Wesker Trilogy’. Written with money from Film Finance Corporation. Further assisted to work with director, Ted Kotcheff, in Hollywood. Never made.