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Contents

General Editor’s Preface vi Introduction and Acknowledgements viii List of Abbreviations xiv

Chronology 1

Who’s Who 306 Principal Sources Consulted 325 Index of Works by 327 Index of People 335 Index of Places 362

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Chronology

1926

June 9 (Wed) Wedding of Hyman ( Jack) Pinter (HJP) and Frances, née Moskowitz (FP). Both sides of the family were Ashkenazi Jews: HJP’s father, Nathan, born in Russia/Poland in 1870, in order to escape the pogroms fled to England with his wife and children in 1900. FP’s father, Harry, came to London in 1900 from Odessa with his Polish-born wife.

1930

October 10 (Fri) Harold Pinter (HP) born at Tudor House, Newington Green, London, the only child of HJP and FP. His parents lived at 8 Ashtead Road, Springhill, Hackney and then moved to 19 Thistlewaite Road.

1936

HP goes to elementary school near Clapton Pond near Thistlewaite Road.

October 4 (Sun) Planned march by Mosley and his Black Shirts into the heart of the Jewish area of East London stopped by massive counter- demonstration.

1939

September–October Following the outbreak of war, HP with 24 other boys evacuated to a castle, Caerhays, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, owned by Major and Mrs Williams.

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1940

Late in the year, HP returns to Hackney, London and to his parents’ home: experiences first-hand the Blitz.

1941

Evacuated with mother to Reading, lodges with a factory worker’s family. HP read every by candlelight. Supports Reading football club and takes School Matriculation Exams, which he apparently failed. Father challenges result and discovers HP just passed.

1942

September Enters Hackney Downs Grammar School where forms lifelong rela tionships, including Henry Woolf (HW) and Michael (Mick) Goldstein (MG), whom he meets at Hackney Boys’ Club, and at school meets nemesis Ron Percival.

1943

Brief evacuation to Yorkshire: the source for lifelong support of Yorkshire Cricket Club.

October 9 (Sat) HP’s Bar Mitzvah at Lea Bridge Synagogue. In spite of German bomb- ing of London, with the cash from his Bar Mitzvah presents HP travels from Hackney to the Charing Cross Road and purchases a copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Begins to use a ‘fountain of life’, the Hackney Public Library. Parents give HP a Collected Shakespeare.

1944–48

Attends Hackney Downs Grammar School. Plays football and cricket and goes in for sprinting and debating. Encouraged and inspired by the English teacher Joseph Brearley ( JB). In 1946–48, has essays, poems and debating speeches printed in issues of the Hackney Downs School Magazine (BR: C1–2, E1–6). In 1947–48, performs lead roles in and .

1944

Falls in love with 14-year-old girl, a neighbour. The unhappy relationship lasted for a year. Evacuated with schoolmaster to rural Norfolk and is the Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

1945, 1946, 1947 3 source ‘for the image of [SA] ... when I started to write the in 1959’. HP ‘recalled the image of ... a garden and lots of flowers ... the like of which I’d never seen before. There wasn’t a match seller’ (Billington: 8).

1945

May 8 (Tue) VE Day (Victory-in-Europe Day).

June 18 (Mon) Demobilization begins in the UK.

July 26 (Thur) Clement Attlee elected as Labour Prime Minister.

1946

Autumn HP comes third in 220 yards for under 16s at school. Hackney Downs School Magazine publishes HP’s essay on ‘James Joyce’, 160: 32–3 (BR: E1).

1947

March 26–28 (Wed–Fri) Plays the role of Macbeth in his JB’s school produc- tion. Malcolm played by Barry Supple (subsequently academic), Ronald Percival plays Lady Macbeth.

Spring Speaks in school Literary and Debating Society opposing the motion ‘That a United States of Europe would be the only means of preventing war’. School magazine publishes HP’s poem ‘Dawn’ (BR: C1).

Summer Speaks in Literary and Debating Society supporting the motion ‘That war is inevitable’. Hackney Downs School Magazine publishes his poem ‘O Beloved Maiden’ 14 (BR: C2). School magazine reviews Macbeth with photograph on the front cover.

Autumn HP appointed Prefect in Hammond House. Passes London General School Examination: speaks to Literary and Debating Society on the subject of ‘Realism and post-realism in the French cinema’. HP’s focus Marcel Carné’s Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Les Enfants du Paradis. School magazine publishes his essay on ‘Blood Sports’ (BR: E5).

1948

April 7–10 (Wed–Sat) HP plays Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, directed by JB, with Betty Lemon as Juliet.

Spring Speaks in Literary and Debating Society supporting the motion that ‘In view of its progress in the last decade, the Film is more promising in its future as an art form than the Theatre’.

Summer HP awarded school cricket and football colours. Romeo and Juliet reviewed in school magazine with photograph. HP mentioned in school magazine ‘Cricket Notes’ and, as school vice-captain, equals school record in 100 yards and sets up new school record in 220 yards: runs for school in 100 yards.

October Responds to National Service call-up by registering as a conscientious objector.

1949

Attends (erratically) the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) for two terms then drops out. Arrested twice, for refusing military service, tried and fined. Lives at home until 1951, reading, writing, seeking work. Writes the ‘Kullus’ (BR: W1) and other short stories, some poetry.

October 18 (Tue) Writes to Henry Miller, who replies (HPA).

1950

August Poems ‘New Year in the Midlands’ and ‘Chandeliers and Shadows’ (Poetry London, 5: 19: 8–10; BR: C3).

September 19 (Tue) Focus on Football Pools, BBC Light Programme, live broadcast. Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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October 10 (Tue) HP’s 20th birthday. 31 (Tue) Focus on Libraries, BBC Light Programme, live broadcast.

November ‘New Year in the Midlands’ (corrected version), ‘Rural Idyll’ and ‘Euro pean Revels’ (Poetry London, 5: 20: 8–9; BR: C4) under the name ‘Harold Pinta’. From late 1950, has occasional work as a radio actor.

1951

Radio performances on BBC’s Focus on Football Pools and Focus on Libraries; and the role of Narrator in BBC’s Mr. Punch Passes Out. Writing The Queen of all the Fairies (HPA).

January–July At the Central School of Speech and . Meets amongst others Barry Foster, a fellow student, who remains a lifelong friend. Very much influ- enced by Cicely Berry (brilliant voice coach) and Stephen Joseph (director).

January 14 (Sun) Plays Abergavenny in R.D. Smith’s BBC Third Programme (3P) production of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII.

Spring ‘So, This Morning of Marvels’ (Poetry Quarterly, 13: 1: 7; BR: C5), under the name ‘Harold Pinta’.

April ‘The Second Visit’ (The Window, 2: 13; BR: C6), as ‘Harold Pinta’.

Summer ‘One a Story, Two a Death’ (Poetry London, 6: 22: 22–3) and ‘I Shall Tear off my Terrible Cap’ (Poetry London, 13: 2: 59; BR: C7, 8), as ‘Harold Pinta’.

September 1951–Autumn 1952

Tours Ireland with Anew McMaster’s repertory company. Begins writing The Dwarfs (D) as a novel (completed 1956; published 1990; BR: W2). Begins a relationship with a member of the touring company, Pauline Flanagan, who plays Portia to HP’s Bassanio, Mrs Erlynne to his Lord Windermere, Gwendolen to his Jack Worthing. They fall in love and HP takes her to London to meet his parents and close friends. Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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1953

January ‘You in the Night’ (The Glass, 1: 27; BR: C9), as ‘Harold Pinta’.

1953–54

With Donald Wolfit’s company, King’s Theatre, : adopts the stage name ‘David Baron’ (after September 1960 uses his own name). HP performs various roles such as Salanio in and Officer in .

1953–57

Casual jobs such as waiter, dishwasher, bouncer, writing, acting in provincial repertory companies. With Wolfit’s company, first encounters (VM, her stage name; born Ada Thompson) and also Alun Owen.

1954–55

Writes ‘The Black and White’ as a short story (BR: W3).

1954

February 26 (Fri) Mother’s 50th birthday.

June Roles at Whitby Spa Repertory Company. 11 (Fri) Plays artist in ’s Murder at the Vicarage. 21 (Mon) Lead roles in Philip King and Anthony Armstrong’s Here We Come Gathering.

November Roles at Huddersfield Repertory Company. 15 (Mon) Byron Winkler in Louis Verneuil’s Affairs of State. 22 (Mon) Young lover and secretary in Rosemary Casey’s Late Love. 29 (Mon) Lombard in Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Niggers.

1955

Writes ‘The Examination’ as a short story (BR: W4). Acting in Colchester Repertory Company. Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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February 28 (Mon) Orpheus in Jean Anouilh’s Point of Departure.

March 7 (Mon) Policeman in Ronald Millar’s Waiting for Gillian.

April 3 (Sun) Egyptologist in Peter Blackmore’s Down Came a . 18 (Mon) Candy in Mary Hayley Bell’s The Uninvited Guest.

May 2 (Mon) In C. Bond’s Lovers’ Meeting. 9 (Mon) In Edmund Morris’ The Wooden Dish. 16 (Mon) US slave owner in Constance Cox’s Georgia Story. 30 (Mon) Petty Officer in Hugh Hastings’ Seagulls over Sorrento.

June 6 (Mon) In Rhys Davies’ No Escape. 13 (Mon) Considerable success as Gentleman Charmer in F. Hugh Herbert’s The Moon is Blue.

September 26 (Mon) PE Instructor in Colin Morris’ Reluctant Heroes.

October 24 (Mon) Psychologist in Graham Greene’s The Living Room. 31 (Mon) Husband in Denis Cannan’s You and Your Wife.

November 7 (Mon) In Philip King’s Serious Charge. 14 (Mon) Defending Counsel in Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution. 28 (Mon) Psychiatrist in George Axelrod’s The Seven Year Itch.

December 5 (Mon) In Noël Coward’s Present Laughter.

1956

March 5 (Mon) TV Producer in Alan Melville’s Simon and Laura, Barry O’Brien Company, The Palace Court, Bournemouth. Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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September 14 (Fri) Marries VM in registry office ceremony, while both are acting in Bournemouth. The day coincides with the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur): HP does not immediately inform his parents of the marriage.

November Writes in four days early incarnation of (BR: W5).

1957

‘The Error of Alarm’ (New Poems 1957: 98; BR: C10).

May 15–16 (Wed–Thur) The Room, performed at the Drama Department of Bristol University, directed by HW at the Drama Studio.

July In Bristol, while on tour with the farce Dear Charles, staying with the actress Susan Engel, meets Emmanuel ( Jimmy) Wax ( JW) who becomes his agent.

November Rewrites The Room (BR: W5)

December Writes Birthday Party (BP) and (DW) (BR: A1, W6, 7). Living in a basement flat in Notting Hill Gate, London. 30 (Mon) New production of The Room Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, directed by Duncan Ross, for student drama competition, Bristol. One of the judges, (Sunday Times drama critic), praises the play, attracting the attention of the impresario Michael Codron (MC).

1958

January 29 (Wed) Son, Daniel, born (in 1975, changes name to ‘Daniel ’). Family moves to a first-floor flat at 373 Chiswick High Road, London W4.

March 30 (Sun) Letter to Peter Wood, director of BP, written just before rehe arsals for its first production in April 1958 (Kenyon Review, 3 [Summer 1981]: 2–5; BR: E7). Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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April 28 (Mon) BP opens at the Arts Theatre, . Writes SA (based upon an unproduced radio play, Something in Common) and (Ho) (not submitted) as radio plays for the BBC (BR: W8–10).

May 17 (Sat) Interviewed regarding BP, within In Town Tonight programme, BBC Home Service (BR: J3). 20 (Tue) First London production, Lyric Hammersmith, BP. Production closes after one week. 25 (Sun) Harold Hobson, Sunday Times, important positive review of BP: HP deeply indebted to him.

September 24 (Wed) Letter from 373 Chiswick High Road, W4, thanks Roger Stevens (RSt, American director and philanthropist) for financial support and comments that JW has informed him ‘today of your won- derful gesture’. The financial aid allows HP to devote more time to writing (HPA).

October Writes letter to editor of The Play’s The Thing concerning responses to BP (BR: F1).

Winter Writing Ho (BR: W10).

1959

Writes (C; BR: W14).

February 28 (Sat) DW premiered Frankfurt am Main.

May 11 (Mon) Tavistock Players perform BP at the Tower Theatre, Canonbury, .

Spring, early summer Writes for radio (BR: W13).

Summer ‘The Examination’ (Prospect, 21–5; BR: D1a). Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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July 15 (Wed) and The Black and White (rewritten as sketch) premiered within MC’s revue, One to Another, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith (BR: W11). 29 (Wed) SA broadcast, 3P, directed by Donald McWhinnie.

September 23 (Wed) Request Stop, Last to Go and Special Offer premiered within MC’s revue, Pieces of Eight, Apollo Theatre (BR: W11).

November 16 (Mon) Interview (Times, 4; BR: G1).

December 1 (Tue) BP First Encore edition published (BR: A1a).

1960

SA appears as radio play. Publication within Tomorrow (BR: W9). The Black and White (The Spectator, 203: 16).

January 21 (Thur) Double bill, The Room and DW, opens at the Club, directed by HP, transfers to (RC) 8 March 1960. Anthony Page directs for RC. 23 (Sat) Interview with Gordon Woolford, ‘Writing for the Theatre?’, BBC Overseas Service. 29 (Fri) Interview with John Sherwood, ‘Profile: A Playwright’. BBC European Service, recorded and broadcast 3 March 1960 (BR: J4, 6).

February 1 (Mon) Interview, within Critic at Large series, BBC, General Overseas Service, recorded.

March 1 (Tue) A Night Out, 3P, directed by Donald McWhinnie, with HP as Seeley and VM as the Girl. Recorded 25 February (BR: W13a). 11 (Fri) Interview with Brian Glanville, ‘I am a Jew Who Writes’ ( Jewish Chronicle, 27; BR: G2). 16 (Wed) A Night Out radio script informally published, 3P. 22 (Tue) BP on , Associated Rediffusion TV, directed by Joan Kemp-Welch. Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

Index of Works by Harold Pinter

Audio-visual materials ‘Wednesday Magazine’, 12, 14 Pinter People, 35 ‘The Actor’, CBS Television Special, 28 ‘Without Walls: of Director: film: , , 40–3, Sir Donald Wolfit’, 211 45–51, 53, 55–6, 58, 63, 66, 75 Harold Pinter with Benedict Nightingale, 120, 144 Interviewed: ‘The Black and White’, 6 about The Birthday Party, 9, 14 ‘The Coast’, 67 about The Caretaker, 12 The Dwarfs, 5, 183, 187 about The Servant, 16 ‘The Examination’, 6, 9 Interviewee: , 15 ‘Admit Me, Chorus, to this History’, ‘Kullus’, 4, 28 131 ‘Lola’, 72 ‘Gielgud: Scenes from Nine Decades’, ‘Problem’, 68, 73 211 ‘Short Story’, 222 South Bank Show, 81, 109, 110, 111, ‘’, 17, 28 245–7 ‘Voices in the Tunnel’, 268 with John Kershaw, 117 with John Tusa, 144 with Melvyn Bragg, 80–1, 111, 245 Interviews, printed in (Pinter and Robert Shaw) with newspapers or magazines Michael Billington, 25 with Sir , 233 (Full titles taken from BR) ‘Oh Superman’ television talk, for ‘Accident’ [with John Russell Taylor], 22 Opinions series, 175, 180 ‘The Art of Drama. Dean Quigley Participant in: Interviews Playwright Harold Counterblast, 25–1 Pinter’, 231 discussion on playwrights, 13, 29, ‘The Art of the Theatre III: Harold 32–3 Pinter: An Interview’ discussion, within Contrasts (L.M. Bensky), 23 programme, 28 ‘The Arts: Life in the Old Dog Yet’ episode in ‘London Stage’, 223 (D. Sexton), 218 episodes : ‘Beatrix Potter and Mr Pinter’ (Sydney ‘Graham Greene, 1904–1991’, 187 Edwards), 51 ‘Michael Redgrave: His Father’, 237 ‘Bombing Shames Britain, Pinter Tells ‘Nicaragua: Poets as Politicians’, 163 Protesters’ (A. Gillan), 251 Late Night Line-Up, 15, 29, 32, 33, 222 ‘Breaking the ’ (S. Summers), Line Up Review programme, 21 158 Omnibus programme, 167–8, 211 ‘Caretaker’s, Caretaker’, 14 Poets Against the Bomb, 103 ‘A Conscientious Objector’ Tonight programme (S. Summers), 168 ‘Two Dogs and Freedom: A Concert for ‘A Conversation [Pause] with Harold the Children of South Africa’, 170 Pinter’ (with M. Gussow), 45

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‘The Evil that Men Do ...’ Interview with Harold Pinter, 15 (M. Billington), 266 ‘An Interview with Harold Pinter’ ‘Fascinated by Unsatisfactory People’ (W. Packard), 26 (P. Lewis), 14 ‘An Interview with Harold Pinter’ ‘Filming The Caretaker’ (K. Cavander), 16 (E. Sakellaridou), 257 ‘Five Desperate Years of Harold Pinter’ ‘Interviews without the Vampire’ (B. Norman), 18 (M. Lawson), 221 ‘Free Milosevic, Says Pinter’ (F. Gibbons), ‘The Jewish Quarterly Interview: 267 The 22 from Hackney to Chelsea’ ‘From “Caretaker” to “Servant”’ (B. Davis), 190 (L. Langley), 17 ‘Just a Simple Little Love Story’ ‘Funny, but Pinter and Cooney are (J. Emery), 84 Very Similar’ (M. Owen), 222 ‘London to Broadway: How a Culture ‘Genius – A Change in Direction’ Shapes a Show’ (M. Gussow), 96 (L. Langley), 51 ‘The Man on the Stairs’ (P. Marber), 261 ‘Genius Revived – Profile: Harold Pinter’ ‘Mr Harold Pinter: Avant-Garde (J. Gross), 200 Playwright and Intimate Revue’, ‘Growth of an Angry Playwright’, 168 10 ‘ Profile: Harold Pinter: ‘My Sadness Over Son ...’ (G. Greig), 289 Under the Volcano’ (S. Moss), 253 ‘A Mystery: Pinter on Pinter’ (J. Crist), ‘Harold and his Lady and a Great Erotic 29 Experience’ (Michael Owen), 109 ‘Myths in No Man’s Land’ ‘Harold Pinter’ (C. Marowitz), 26 (M. Billington), 200 ‘Harold Pinter and Cardinal Hume Lead ‘The New Light that Burns Within Assault on Plans for War in the Harold Pinter’ (B. Appleyard), 131 Gulf’, 241 ‘The NS Interview: Harold Pinter’ ‘Harold Pinter: Caretaker of Britain’s (M. Riddell), 254 New Theatre’ (A. Schifres), 23 ‘ Profile’ (J. Rayne), 251 ‘Harold Pinter: Interview Donée au ‘’ (R. Harwood), 279 Monde du 15 octobre 1997’, 239 ‘On Cancer, War and Cricket’ (R. Koval), ‘Harold Pinter Replies’ (H. Thompson), 275 66 ‘The Oval, 25 August 1990’ ‘Harold Pinter Talks to Michael Dean’, (B. Johnston), 182 30 ‘Pause for Thought’ (K. Saunders), 221 ‘Harold Pinter: The Man in the Ironic ‘People Are Talking About …’, 14 Mask’ (H. Kissell), 121 ‘A Pint with Pinter Helps to Dispel the ‘Harold Pinter: The Progressive Mystery’ (P. Purser), 12 Interview’ (A. Cusac), 264 ‘Mr Pinter Accuses Signor Visconti of ‘Harold’s New Baby’ (C. Armitstead), Staging “Fiasco”’ (P. Nichols), 51 202 ‘Pinter Among the Poets’ ‘HP Source’ (S. Grant), 266 (A. Graham-Yooll), 163 ‘I am a Jew Who Writes’, 10 ‘Pinter Between the Lines’, 14 ‘I’m not a Theorist – I Follow my Nose’ ‘Pinter Emerges from the “Dark Dream” (M. Billington), 276 of Cancer’ (H. Davies), 275 ‘In an Empty Bandstand – Harold ‘Pinter in a Rage Over Play’s Fate’ Pinter in Conservation with Joan (S. Quinn), 251 Bakewell’, 33 ‘Pinter: My Plays, my Polemics, my Pad’, ‘In Conversation’ (M. Billington), 231 (S. Grant), 206 [Interview relating to The Homecoming], ‘Pinter: My Split with Hall’ (M. Owen), 184 126 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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‘Pinter on Pinter’ (M. Gross), 51 ‘Walking into a Dark Room’ (F. O’Toole), ‘Pinter on Pinter: The Lincoln Center 211 Interviews’ (M. Gussow), 267 ‘Why He Doesn’t Write More’ ‘Pinter on Woolf and Friendship’ (P. Bosworth), 29 (F. Moher), 259 With Mel Gussow, 267 ‘Pinter’s Passions’ (S. Schiff), 183 ‘Writing for the Theatre’ (G. Woolford), ‘Pinter’s Plays Following Him Out of 10 Enigma and into Politics’ ‘Writing Gets Less Easy for Pinter’ (M. Gussow), 169 (‘Pendennis’), 99 ‘Pinter’s Taxi to No Man’s Land’ ‘Writing Politics and ’ (M. Owen), 61 (M. Aragay, R. Simó), 232 ‘Pinter to Attack Nato’s Bandits ‘You Talkin’ to Me?’ (G. Greig), 290 (R. Brooks), 250 ‘Pinteresque Pinter’ (L. Van Gelder), 174 Miscellaneous: minor pieces, ‘Pinterview’, 14 ‘The Playwright’s Other Pursuit’ collaborative writings, (M. Gussow), 255 editing, etc. ‘Polly Toynbee Profiles Playwright Harold Pinter’, 183 ‘America’s $17bn Debt to Nicaragua’ ‘Precise Words of Pinter’ (J. Barber), 99 [joint statement], 189 ‘Prosecute Blair and Clinton, Urges ‘Amnesty International. Page of Pinter’ (M. Tempest), 267 protests against the execution of ‘Public Discussion’ (M. Billington), 206 Ken-Saro-Wira ...’ [signatory], 223 ‘Radical Departures: Harold Talks to ‘Atheists Want Voice on Today’ Anna Ford’, 168 [joint letter], 275 ‘A Rare Interview with Harold Pinter’, 95 Authors Take Sides on Vietnam ‘Rebel Without a Pause’ (V. Grove), 241 [contribution], 28 ‘Réponses sur The Servant’, 17 ‘British Friends of Peace Now’ ‘Reunion: Harold Pinter Visually [joint letter], 239 Speaking’ (M. Ciment), 172 Catch, The (A. Wilkinson), 240 ‘Take Three on the Go-Between’ Celebrities Choice, 20 (R. Round), 41 ‘Decriminalize Cannabis’ [petition], 238 ‘Talking with Pinter’ (J. Barber), 99 ‘Editor Under Arrest: Iran’ [joint letter], ‘That Nice Mr Pinter’ (J. Walsh), 249 237 ‘Theatre Abroad’ (C. Marowitz), 12 ‘Election 2001. I’m Voting For’, 266 ‘Theatre of War ...’ (K. Kellaway), 290 [Endorsement to book of poems: Anne ‘Togetherness’, 290 Wilkinson], 278 ‘To Hell and Back with Pinter’ ‘Europe Sells Its Soul for a Euro’ [joint (S. Edwards), 90 letter], 224 ‘Topical Relevances’ (S. F[arbo]), 156 ‘A Family Blighted by Deportation’ ‘Translating Fowles into Film’ (L. Garris), [joint letter], 237 109 Focus on Football Pools, 4, 5 ‘Trying to Pin Down Pinter: Interview Focus on Libraries, 5 with Marshall Pugh’, 17 ‘Foreward’: Labiche, Two Plays, 14 ‘The 296 (all-night) Bus to Success’ ‘Government Attacks Access to Justice’ (J. Holland), 11 [petition], 192 ‘Two People in a Room: Playwriting’, 24 ‘Hard Choices About War’ [joint letter], ‘An Unflinching Gaze’ (F. O’Toole), 211 277 ‘Unthinkable Thoughts’ (D. Edwards), ‘Held in Pentonville but Not Told Why’ 257 [joint letter], 186 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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‘Hollow Reforms in Turkey’ [joint letter], ‘Umbrellas’, 11 224 ‘Vanunu and ’s Secrets’ [joint ‘In view of its progress in the last decade letter], 217 ...’, 4 ‘Vanunu Anniversary’ [joint letter], ‘Kurdish Peace Train Plea’ [joint letter], 215 237 Various Voices, 180, 246–7, 298 ‘Labour is Failing, the Challenge ...’ ‘When it comes to the Vote’ [joint letter], 186 [contribution], 234 ‘Manifesto for Peace and Progress’ [signed], 279 ‘The Many Friends of Eyyad Sarraj’ Plays and sketches for the [joint letter], 227 stage, radio and television ‘Mordechai Vanunu: More in Need of Help Than Ever’ [joint letter], 191 The , 11, 30 ‘More Pressure for Middle East Peace’ Ashes to Ashes, 208, 225–7, 229–32, 234, [joint letter], 273 238, 239, 241–4, 246, 248, 253, Mr Punch Passes Out, 5 261, 265–7 ‘My Election Series’ [contribution], 265 , 19, 23–4, 29, 30, 38–9 99 Poems in Translation, 211 , 77–80, 82–7, 90, 92–6, 98, 101, 100 Poems by 100 Poets, 153 105–7, 112–18, 120–1, 123–4, Petition [1978] for the release of Eduard 126, 128, 130, 154, 173, 179, 183, Kuznetsov, 82 185–6, 211–12, 230, 246–8, 250, ‘Pinters Bow Out of the Group’ 253, 255, 261, 281–2, 284–6, 288, (Mandrake), 172 297, 301 ‘Playwrights in Apartheid Protest’, 16 The Birthday Party, 8–10, 12, 17–18, Poems and Prose 1949–1977, 81 26–7, 29, 34–5, 40–1, 57–8, 60, Protest ‘proposed execution ... of Mumia 148, 150–1, 158, 173, 182, 184, Abu-Jamal’ [joint letter], 229 209–11, 213, 249–50, 252, 293–6, ‘Radio Daze’ [joint letter], 210 300, 303 ‘Reprisal Murders of Journalists in The Black and White, 10–12, 18–19 Turkey’ [joint letter], 201 The Caretaker, 9, 11–19, 22–3, 25, 31–3, ‘Solidarity with Turkish Writers’ [joint 36, 43, 45–7, 51, 59, 65–7, 100–3, letter], 228 105–7, 113, 115, 124, 187–91, ‘Stars tell Blair’ [signed], 275 218, 234, 250, 260–5, 269, 276, ‘Stop this Holy Slaughter Now’ [joint 283, 294, 297 letter], 262 Celebration, 252–3, 255, 256–7, 261, 267, Stop the War Coalition [petition], 275 273, 280 ‘Stop the War of Rich Against Poor’ , 12–17, 20, 32, 67, 70, 74, [joint letter], 268 144, 188, 234, 242–3, 262, 267, ‘Taking a Stand Against the Turkish 302 Government’s Denial ...’ Dialogue for Three, 15 [signatory], 245 The Dumb Waiter, 8–10, 12–15, 21–2, 51, ‘Time to Free Vanunu’ [joint letter], 276 60, 134–5, 143, 157, 177, 211–12, ‘Travel Ban on Mikhail Gorbachev 260, 286, 301 Condemned as Abuse of Power’ The Dwarfs, 12, 16, 19, 29, 47–9, 64, [joint letter], 200 176, 258, 274–81 ‘Two Perspectives on Pinochet’ [joint Eight Revue Sketches, 19 letter], 246 The Examination, 13, 15, 17, 20, 64, 80 ‘UN Closure of Camp Betrays Refugee , 99–101, 103–4, 105, 109, Rights’ [joint letter], 233 118–19, 154, 156, 161, 297 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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The Homecoming, 18–20, 22–6, 28–30, Silence, 28–35, 37, 47 42, 45–6, 48–52, 59, 66–7, 80–5, Sketches (I and II), 272, 274 102, 121, 182–6, 189, 193, 210, A Slight Ache, 3, 9–12, 14, 18, 23–4, 36, 231–4, 236, 254, 262, 265–8, 270, 50–1, 155–9, 259, 261, 277, 299 301 Special Offer, 10, 23 The Hothouse, 9, 17, 90, 96–106, 113–15, Tea Party, 16–18, 25, 29, 37–9 221–4, 233, 301 That’s Your Trouble, 17 , 21, 112, 119, 131, Trouble in the Works, 10, 12, 30 133–5, 137, 139, 169, 177, 235, , 112, 119, 129, 131, 139, 243, 254, 267, 274, 299 242 , 26, 28–35, 51–3, 101, 116–17, 121, 211–12, 216–18, 223, 231, Poetry 267 La st to Go, 10, 30 Collections , 15–18, 20, 33, 67, 143, 155–9, 188, 194, 234–5, 243, 262, 302 The Disappeared and Other Poems, 276 , 30–1 I Know the Place, 87 monologue, 48, 50–1, 63–4, 267, 271, 301 Poems (1968), 28 , 201–3, 205–12, 215, 218, 222–3, 238–9, 257, 261 Published shorter poems , 140, 148, 152, ‘After Lunch’, 276 165–9, 176, 191–3, 199, 215, 228, ‘Afternoon’, 13, 25 231, 265–7 ‘American Football – (A Reflection on Night, 30, 32–3, 51 the Gulf War)’, 193 A Night Out, 9–13, 15, 24–5, 34–5, 144, ‘And All the Others’, 50 155 ‘Before They Fall’, 129 , 22–3, 75–6 ‘Blowing up the Media’, 196 No Man’s Land, 55–2, 64–7, 69, 72, 75–6, ‘The Bombs’, 279 78, 84, 92, 144, 194–6, 199–204, ‘Chandeliers and Shadows’, 4 208–9, 218, 235, 261, 269–71, 273, ‘Dawn’, 3 303 ‘Death’, 238, 303 Old Times, 41–7, 50, 58–60, 63, 65, ‘Democracy’, 279 76, 128–9, 132, 138–42, 144–6, ‘The Disappeared’, 245 184–5, 192, 194, 206–7, 211–12, ‘The Doing So’, 68 219–21, 241–2, 254, 287–90, 297 ‘Don’t Look’, 217 One for the Road, 123, 129–32, 137, 139, ‘The Error of Alarm’, 8, 25 142–4, 147, 153, 160, 167, 194, ‘European Revels’, 5 211–12, 254, 265–7, 270, 274, 282 ‘Ghost’, 127 Other Places: Three Plays, 112, 118–22, ‘God’, 208 131, 137–9, 142, 207 ‘God Bless America’, 278 Party Time, 145, 187–8, 191–3, 198–200, ‘I Know the Place’, 70 231, 282 ‘I Shall Tear Off My Terrible Cap’, 5 Pieces of Eight, 10 ‘The Islands of Aran Seen from the , 128–9, 137 Moher Cliffs’, 28 Press Conference, 271 ‘It Is Here’, 178, 203 Proust: Remembrance of Things Past ‘Joseph Brearley 1909–1977’, 77 [with Di Trevis], 83, 224, 238, ‘Later’, 65 249, 258–9, 261–5 ‘The Lights Glow’, 106 The Room, 8, 10, 12–14, 18, 21, 60, 162, ‘Meeting’, 275 253, 255–7, 261, 267, 301 ‘Message’, 275 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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‘New Year in the Midlands’, 4, 5 ‘A Comment on the War’, 251 ‘O Beloved Maiden’, 3 ‘Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading’, 260 ‘The Old Days’, 230 ‘How I Shall Vote’, 157 ‘One A Story, Two a Death’, 5 Introductory speech …, 240 ‘Order’, 230 ‘James Joyce’, 3 ‘The Other Guy’, 221 Jimmy [contribution], 131 ‘Paris’, 60, 70, 297 ‘The Knight has been Unruly – Memories ‘Partners’, 150 of Sir Donald Wolfit’, 28 ‘Requiem for 1945’, 251 ‘The Kurds have Lifted the Veil’, 249 ‘Restaurant’, 253 ‘Language and Lies’, 65 ‘Rural Idyll’, 5 ‘A Letter to Peter Wood’, 8 ‘The Saturday Poem’, 300 ‘Mac’, 29 ‘The Second Visit’, 5 ‘Memories of Cricket’ [Hutton and the ‘So, This Morning of Marvels’, 5 Past], 31 ‘Special Relationship’, 290 ‘Murder is the most brutal form of ‘The Table’, 25 censorship’, 223 ‘To My Wife’, 284 The Nato Action in Serbia [speech], 252 ‘The Ventriloquists’, 115 The New Cold War [contribution], 212 ‘Weather Forecast’, 280 ‘A Note on Shakespeare’, 205 ‘You in the Night’, 6 ‘On Being Awarded the German Shakespeare Prize in Hamburg’ Prose non-fiction: essays, [speech: Hamburg 1970], 36 ‘Pinter: Between the Lines’, 14 articles, published speeches ‘Pinter on Beckett’, 41 ‘Public and Private: Notes by Harold [Account of experiences of reading], 57 Pinter’, 45 Address to Hull University congregation, ‘Realism and post-realism in the French 228 cinema’, 3 ‘The American administration is a Speech at the ‘Don’t Attack Iraq’ bloodthirsty wild animal’, 277 Lobby ..., 278 ‘American Foreign Policy if it Never Speech at the Edinburgh International Happened’ [Opinion: Picking Book Festival, 275 a Fight with the Bulldog of the Speech of introduction, 9 December West] [First Person: Picking 2002, 277 a Fight with Uncle Sam] ‘The US Elephant Must Be Stopped’, 161 [Commentary: Land of the Free? ‘A War of Words’, 220 It Never Happened], 232 ‘Writing for Myself’, 13 And Thank You, Hackney Library [from ‘Writing for the Theatre’ [speech], 14 A Speech of Thanks], 218 ‘Yanquis Go Home!’, 180 Anniversary of Nato Bombing of Serbia [speech], 250 Archbishop Romero’s Ghost Can Published letters to be Avenged [‘The US and El newspapers, magazines, etc. Salvador’], 202 ‘Arthur Wellard (1902–1980): (Somerset, ‘Artists Against the War’ [letter], 250 England and Gaieties)’, 106 ‘Blind Eye on Turkey’, 147 [Article on Nicaragua], 195 ‘Breaking the Chains: A State of War ...’, ‘Beckett’, 23 243 ‘Blood Sports’, 4 ‘Bush’s Comic ’, 188 ‘Blowing up the Media’, 196 ‘Censorship’ [letter], 263 ‘Caribbean Cold War’, 227 ‘Dear President Bush’, 285 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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‘Denies rift with Salman Rushdie’ The Comfort of Strangers, 170 [letter], 219 The Comfort of Strangers and Other Derek Newark, 245 Screenplays, 183 ‘Dissenters Put the Record Straight’, 268 The Compartment, 18 ‘Distressing’, 36 Five Screenplays, 40–1 ‘Freedom of the Vote in Nicaragua’, 176 The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 52, 79, ‘Gulf War’ [letter], 186 82, 84–7, 89–90, 93, 96, 98–104, ‘How the Law Lies in Russia’, 207 106–7, 109–10, 112, 116, 230 ‘Library loan’ [letter], 264 The Go-Between, 17, 29, 35, 37–44, 46, ‘Losey and Friends’ [letter], 209 230, 278 ‘Milosevic’ [letter], 267 The Guest [The Caretaker], 16–17 ‘Mountain Language’ [letter], 167 The Heat of the Day, 156, 161–8, 170, ‘Mr Losey’s Screenplays’, 49 173–4, 177, 182, 231 ‘My Defence’, 255 , 238, 255–7, 261 ‘On The Birthday Party II: Letter to the Langrishe, Go Down, 34–5, 43, 82–4, 98, Editor of The Play’s the Thing’, 194 101, 230, 276 ‘On “Heroes and Villains”’, 45 The Last Tycoon, 51–5, 57–9, 62, ‘Pause for Thought’, 233 68, 70 ‘Peace Studies’, 129 The Proust Screenplay, 45–9, 63, 76, 81 ‘A Pinter Drama in Stoke Newington’, The Pumpkin Eater, 15, 17–18, 230 228 The Quiller Memorandum [The Berlin ‘Proust Found Again’, 249 Memorandum], 18–23 Re: Chomsky, World Order [letter], 218 The Remains of the Day, 178, 184, 186–7, Reply to Michael Coveney [Re: HP and 207 Simon Gray], 203 The Servant, 15–16, 36, 38–9, 210, 230, Reply to Open Letter by Leonard Russell, 264, 276 12 The Trial, 174, 178–9, 188, 191, 193, ‘Scenario for the Bugging of a Home’, 195–7, 198–9, 203–4, 208, 231 232 , 125, 127–30, 134–5, 137–9, Schindler’s List [letter], 212 141–2, 146 ‘Socialism Not to Blame ... or Is It?’, 218 Victory, 115–16, 119 Times [letter], 51 Times: North and South Korea [letter], 205 Sound items ‘“The Trial” Upstaged’, 204 Desert Island Discs, castaway, 18 ‘True Colours’ [statement], 286 Interview: Honorary Fellowship, Queen ‘Two Tales of Human Rights’, 265 Mary College, University of US Foreign Policy, 255 London, 156 ‘US Should Admit Role in El Salvador’, Interview: Luchino Visconti production 202 of Old Times, 50 ‘US Troops’ Ambiguous Role’, 214 Interview with Alan Haydock, 39 ‘’, 289 Interview with Brian Johnston, 182 ‘We are Bandits Guilty of Murder’, 250 Interview with Hallam Tennyson, 11 ‘Writer Outraged’ [open letter to Tony Interview with John Sherwood, 10 Blair], 241 Interview with Mercy Appet, 18 Interview with Nan Winton, 17 Screenplays and adaptations Interview with Paul Allen, 183 Interview within the ‘Lively Arts’ Accident, 18 programme [on The Quiller Collected Screenplays, 260–1 Memorandum], 23 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Interviewed by John Bowen [directing ‘Players’, 126, 140 Robert Shaw’s The Man in the Talk: ‘On Films’, 16 Glass Booth], 26 Tea Party (as short story), reader Harold Interviewed by Patricia Brent, ‘H. Pinter Pinter, 18 Becomes a Manager’, 33 Theatre: A Discussion [Argo LP ‘London Echo: An Interview with John Recording], 14 Wain’, 12 Various Voices ..., Read by the Author, ‘The Night of the Day of the Imprisoned 246 Writer’, 112 ‘What Makes a Dramatist’, 21 Performer in: Eugene Ionesco, Victims of Duty, 13 ‘Personal Anthology’ of poems (with Unpublished, projected Vivien Merchant), 14, 35 writings, alternative titles Pinter as reader ‘Arthur Wellard’, 106 ‘A Glass Eye’, 12 ‘Mac’, 15 God’s District, 234 ‘Pinter on Cricket’, 74 ‘My Nephew’, 11 ‘Pinter on Pinter’, 51 Queen of All the Fairies, 5 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Abbensett, Michael Appleyard, Bryan, 131 In the Mood, 110 Aragay, Mireia, 232 Achebe, Chinua, 171 Archibald, William, 309 Ackland, Rodney The Innocents, 67 Absolute Hell, 192; The Dark River, Armitstead, Claire, 202 195 Armstrong, Anthony and Philip King Adams, John Here We Come Gathering, 6 The Death of Klinghoffer, 281; El Niño, Ashcroft, Dame Peggy (PA), 28–9, 31–3, 282; Nixon in China, 259, 300 35, 48–9, 53, 85, 87–91, 93, 96–8, Adès, Thomas 100–1, 103–5, 107, 110, 113, , 286 116–17, 124, 126–7, 129, 131, 144, Agland, Phil, 243 147, 151, 156, 158, 162, 164, 167–8, Aitken, Jonathan, 277, 282 174, 183, 189–90, 193, 296, 306 Aitken, Penelope, 61 Asher, Aaron, 158, 160 Alagna, Roberto, 255 Astbury, Anthony (Tony) (TA), 54, 56, Albee, Edward, 43, 58 68, 74–5, 77, 80, 82, 87, 91, 99, 109, All Over, 70; A Delicate Balance, 19, 120, 137, 139, 146–7, 151, 156–68, 29, 239; Marriage Plot, 265; The 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181–2, 184, Play About the Baby, 246; Three Tall 190, 193–8, 201, 208, 210, 214–15, Women, 216; Who’s Afraid of Virginia 219, 241, 251, 254, 275, 292, 296, Woolf, 110, 230 306, 314 Aldiss, Brian, 172 Atkins, Eileen, 166 Allen, Paul, 183 Atkinson, Rowan Allen, Sir Thomas, 173 Rowan Atkinson in Review, 105 Allen, Woody, 127 Attenborough, Michael, 142, 146 Almond, Paul Attlee, Clement, 3 Dumb Waiter, 13 Atwood, Margaret, 150, 152, 170, 191, Altman, Robert, 135–7, 157, 162 196, 319 Gosford Park, 270; The Player, 198 Aukin, David, 98, 102, 110, 126, 148, Amis, Martin, 59, 175, 219, 258, 302 156, 163–5, 169, 178, 243 Amory, Mark, 160 and Nancy Meckler, 98, 127, 163, Anderson, Michael 192 The Quiller Memorandum, 19 Auster, Paul, 187 Andò, Roberto, 239–40, 247, 257, 265 Axelrod, George Angelis, April De The Seven Year Itch, 7 Hush, 199 Ayckbourn, Sir Alan (AAy), 55, 72, 80, Angelou, Maya, 158, 165 197, 282, 306, 311, 314 Anouilh, Jean, 119 , 72; Chorus of Point of Departure, 7; Disapproval, 177; Man of the The Rehearsal, 183 Moment, 179; Norman Conquests, 55; Anthony, Nigel, 265, 268 Relatively Speaking, 25, 306; Sisterly Antonioni, Michelangelo, 19 Feelings, 98; , 100; Appelfield, Aaron, 165 , 151 Appet, Mercy, 18 Ayer, A.J., 177

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Bacall, Lauren, 70, 100, 139–46, 157, Butley, 45; The Caretaker, 11; , 162–4, 171, 184, 189, 194, 200, 208, 40; Melon, 156; A Patriot for Me, 218, 222, 235, 251, 259, 274, 279, 125; Simply Disconnected, 227; Stage 285, 291, 294–5 Struck, 94 Bacon, Francis, 31, 34, 141, 178 Bates, Tristan, 178, 307 Bagguley, John, 28 Batty, Marc, 259, 262, 293 Bailey, Marion, 139 Baum, Carol, 197 Baird, Georgina, 21 Beaton, Alistair Baker, Hylda, 27 Feelgood, 264 Baker, Terence, 35, 74–5, 89, 105–6, 123, Beaumarchais, Pierre, 55 136, 189 Becker, Lutz, 158 Baker, Word, 18 Beckett, Samuel (SB), 12, 19, 22, 32, 37, Bakewell, Joan, Baroness (JBa), 33, 55, 42, 46, 56, 67, 90, 130, 170–1, 178, 59, 62, 66–7, 70–3, 75, 77–81, 83–5, 180, 268, 308, 310, 312, 314, 321 87, 89–95, 97–102, 104–5, 107–14, Catastrophe, 257; Eh, Joe, 19; Endgame, 116–19, 121–6, 128, 130, 132, 287; Footfalls, 68; Happy Days, 60, 136–7, 141, 146–7, 150, 155, 158–9, 67, 231, 253, 285, 299; Krapp’s Last 164, 167, 175, 177, 179–81, 197, Tape, 64, 253; Lessness, 40; More 200, 202–4, 206–7, 209–10, 212, Pricks than Kicks, 308; Murphy, 214, 219, 223–4, 227, 236, 239–40, 308; Play, 134; Play, That Time, 68; 243, 246, 250–1, 253, 259, 263, 265, Rockaby, 120; Rough for Radio, 69; 269, 282, 307, 312 The Unnameable, 67; Waiting for In the Centre of the Bed, 32; and Godot, 69, 169, 316; Watt, 308 Michael, 20, 27, 60, 148 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 171 Bakewell, Michael (MB), 17, 19, 21–2, Fidelio, 124, 184 216, 218, 223, 253, 280, 291, 303, Béjart, Maurice 307 Ballet of the 20th Century, 53 Proust radio adaptation, 224 Belfrage, Julian, 187 Banbury, Frith, 176–7, 184, 282 Bell, Mary Hayley Bancroft, Lord, 187 The Uninvited Guest, 7 Baptiste, Tom, 32 Belli, Gioconda, 167–8 Barber, John, 99 Bellini, Vincenzo Barker, George, 89, 153, 157, 162, 171, I Puritani, 197; La Sonnambula, 272 195–6, 306 Bellow, Saul, 24 Barker, Howard Benn, Tony, 294 Fair Slaughter, 74; A Hard Heart, Bennett, Alan, 27 195 , 292; The Old Country, ‘Baron, David’, 6 75 Barry, Sebastian, 303 Bensky, Lawrence, 23 Our Lady of Sligo, 243; The Steward of Bentley, Eric Christendom, 219 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been …, Barrymore, John, 70 76 Bartlett, Hall Beresford, Bruce The Caretakers, 17 Breaker Morant, 102 Bartlett, Neil Berg, Alban Oliver Twist, 287 Wozzeck, 183, 276 Bates, Sir Alan (AB), 19, 37, 40–1, 43, Berg, Scott, 146 45, 58, 64–5, 80, 89, 129–31, 153, Bergman, Ingmar 178, 223, 233–4, 236, 265, 282, 285, The Lie, 39 291, 307 Berkoff, Steven, 208 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Berlin, Aline, 243, 249, 258, 262, 264, Carmen, 63; The Pearl Fishers, 211 274, 281, 286, 289, 296 Blackmore, Peter Berlin, Isaiah, 165, 174, 240 Down Came a Blackbird, 7 and Aline, 102, 105, 115–16, 121, 136, Blair, Tony, 219, 285, 291, 299, 309 139, 150, 197, 198, 213, 215–16, Blakely, Colin, 116, 137, 157–8, 160 221, 224, 233 Blakemore, Michael, 127, 150 Berlioz, Hector Bland, Christopher, 99, 241 Beatrice and Benedict, 178 Bleasdale, Alan Bernhard, Thomas Boys from the Blackstuff: Jobs for the Eve of Retirement, 237 Boys, 121 Bernstein, Carl, 71, 116, 143 Blixen, Karen (Karen von Blixen- Berry, Cicely, 5 Finecke) Berry, Scyld, 214 The Dreaming Child, 236 Bertolucci, Bernardo, 187 Block, Simon Betjeman, Sir John, 47 Chimps, 237 Bevan, Tony, 276 Bloom, Claire (CB), 68–70, 77, 80, Bigsby, Christopher, 110, 279 86–8, 90, 95, 97–8, 102–4, 106, Billington, Kevin (KB), 56–60, 65–6, 69, 110, 112–14, 116, 120–1, 124, 75, 80–1, 83, 91–2, 104–5, 109–10, 128–9, 131, 134–5, 137–8, 140, 142, 115, 133, 138, 141, 143, 145, 147, 147–8, 152, 154–5, 161, 207, 212, 151–5, 158, 168, 178, 181, 185, 202, 217, 309, 320 207, 210, 230, 240, 254, 273, 279, Bloom, John, 100, 116 299, 308, 321 Bloomstein, Rex, 159, 161 with Rachel (KBs), 116, 156, 159, Traitors to Hitler, 158, 160 166, 169, 191, 197, 204, 206, 210, Blythe, Ronald 213–14, 226, 233, 271, 273, 276–7, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, 279, 283, 285–7, 289, 292, 297, 55 302–3; see also Billington, Rachel Boase, T.S.R., 20 Billington, Michael (MBi), 25, 92, 131, Bogarde, Dirk, 56, 194 147, 200, 203, 206, 210–11, 217, Boisson, Christine, 236 222, 224–5, 228, 230–1, 258, 266–8, Bolt, Robert (RB), 40, 46, 69, 72, 98, 276, 284, 299, 304, 309 100, 147 Harold Pinter (Billington), 3, 55, 62, The Mission, 151; State of Revolution, 73 101, 171, 178, 184, 210, 213, 225, Bonacelli, Paolo, 223, 244 230; and Jeanine (MBis), 57, 62–5, Bond, C. 73–4, 81, 83–5, 87–8, 98, 100, Lovers’ Meeting, 7 103–5, 107, 111–14, 116, 119–20, Bond, Edward 122–6, 127, 129, 133, 136, 138, Narrow Road to the Deep North, 30; 140–1, 146–7, 149, 151–7, 160, 162, The Pope’s Wedding, 138; Saved, 138 167, 171–2, 176–7, 187, 195–6, 201, Bosworth, Patricia, 29 216, 223, 227, 235, 250, 255, 257–8, Boulez, Pierre 264, 266, 270, 274–5, 289 ‘Pli Selon Pli’, 31 Billington, Rachel, 60, 103, 281, 309 Bovell, Andrew Life After Death, 113; see also Speaking in Tongues, 259 Billington, Kevin Bowater, Ian, 158 Birtwistle, Harrison, 67, 69, 90, 121, 159 Bowen, Elizabeth, 314 The Cat and the Moon, 111; Gawain, The Heat of the Day, 156 189; King of the Great Clock Tower, Bowen, John, 26 111; The Minotaur, 302 Bowman, James, 195 Bizet, Georges Boxer, Mark, 104, 163 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Bradlaugh, Jeanine, 309; see also Brett, Jeremy, 104 Billington, Michael Briers, Richard, 45 Bradwell, Mike Butley, 45, 48 Still Crazy After All These Years, 113 Britten, Benjamin, Baron Bragg, Melvyn, Baron (MBr), 78, 80–1, Billy Budd, 163, 191, 242; Death 109, 111, 202, 238, 241, 244–5, 295, in Venice, 195; Gloriana, 209; A 309–10 Midsummer Night’s Dream, 107, 220; and Catherine (MBrs) 248, 252, 267, Owen Wingrave, 209; Peter Grimes, 275, 280, 284, 291, 295 165, 188, 197, 219, 250; The Turn Brahms, Caryl, 109 of the Screw, 124, 238, 261; War Brahms, Johannes Requiem, 169, 202 Requiem, 41 Brook, Peter Brand, Daniel (HP’s son), 8, 21, 36, 46, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 43 49, 59–62, 64, 66, 69–70, 72–84, Brookes, Dr Christopher (CBr), 88–9, 90–108, 110, 112–20, 122–3, 125–7, 91–6, 99, 101–7, 111–15, 117, 123, 130, 132–6, 138–41, 143–4, 146–9, 127, 130, 132–3, 136–8, 140, 144, 151, 153–6, 170, 172, 183, 190, 201, 146–7, 159, 162, 164, 166, 168, 272, 317 170–1, 187, 190, 199–200, 212, 217, Brandt, Bill, 104, 124–5 228–9, 233, 236, 240, 251, 262, 268, Bray, Barbara (BB), 37, 39, 44–6, 48–9, 271, 274, 278, 286, 292, 296, 311 60, 73–4, 78, 87, 90, 98, 156, 190, Brown, Colin, 241 225, 242, 244, 253, 280, 294, 308, Brown, Gordon, 195 310, 312 Brown, John Russell, 53, 63 The Dwarfs, 12; À la recherche du temps Brown, Mark perdu, 45–6 ‘Harold Pinter’s Forgotten Sketch Bray, John, 310 Rediscovered After More than 50 Brearley, Joseph (Joe) (JB), 2, 19, 23, 27, Years’, 11 29, 42, 48, 62–3, 76–7, 145, 262, Brown, Sally, 201 310 Bruce, Evangeline, 135, 139 ‘Fortune’s Fool’: The Man Who Taught Bryan, Robert Harold Pinter: A Life of Joe Brearley, Butley, 43 302; Romeo and Juliet, 4 Bryant, Arthur, 88 Brearley, Mike, 179 Bryden, Bill, 124–5, 252 Brecht, Bertolt Bukovsky, Vladimir, 53 Arturo Ui, 107, 191; Life of Galileo, 100, Burke, Gregory 209 Gagarin Way, 269 Brendel, Alfred, 122, 144, 148, 153, 155, Burkman, Katherine, 258 161, 168, 183, 199, 240, 247, 259, Burton, Harry (Matthew), 296, 298, 303, 282 304 and Irene, 120, 128, 142, 148, 153, Dumbwaiter, 301 161, 245, 248, 252, 256, 260, 279 Burton, Humphrey, 38, 261 Brent, Patricia, 33 Burton, Matthew, 303 Brenton, Howard Bury, John, 58 Berlin Bertie, 196; Christie in Love, 31; Butley, 41, 43; Langrishe, Go Down, 43; Danton’s Death [Georg Büchner], No Man’s Land, 57 119; Revenge, 33; The Romans in Buscaglia, Horacio, 217 Britain, 102; Still of the Night, 121 Bush, George, 285, 291 Brenton, Howard, Tariq Ali and Andy Butcher, Justin de la Tour The Madness of George Dubya, 281 Collateral Damage, 251 Butterworth, Jez Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Majo, 230 Cherkassky, Shura, 171 Byatt, A.S., 63, 127, 192, 216 Chomsky, Noam, 212, 277 Chopin, Frédéric, 94, 142 Caine, Michael, 295 Christie, Dame Agatha Calder, John Murder at the Vicarage, 6; Ten Beckett at Sixty: A Festschrift, 23 Little Niggers, 6; Witness for the Campbell-Johnston, Father Michael, Prosecution, 7 181, 183, 185 Christie, Julie, 101–2, 162, 179, 202, Campion, Jane 217, 224 An Angel at My Table, 185 The Go-Between, 35 Camus, Albert Churchett, Stephen Caligula, 281 Tom and Clem, 235 Cannan, Denis Churchill, Caryl Dear Daddy, 70; You and Your Wife, 7 Blue Heart, 238; Far Away, 262; Cantor, Arthur, 69 A Number, 276; , 156 Cardenal, Ernesto, 184 Ciment, Michel, 170, 172, 210 Carlyle, Ian, 245–6 Clarke, James, 261, 283, 290 Carné, Marcel, 3 Clayton, Haya, 278–9, 281–3, 285–94, Carr, Marina 296, 299 Portia Coughlan, 227 Cleese, John, 180–1, 195, 197 Carteret, Anna, 114, 318 Clodd, Alan, 25–6 A Piece of My Mind, 156 Clurman, Harold, 24 Cartmill, Ian, 236 Cocteau, Jean Cartwright, Jim Les Parents Terribles, 212 The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, 198 Codron, Michael (MC), 8, 41, 43–6, 58, Casey, John, 73, 78, 80, 86, 96, 102, 60–1, 63, 65–6, 68, 72, 75–6, 80, 106, 108, 119, 128, 134, 137–8, 152, 108, 127, 130, 136–7, 142, 311–12 154, 187, 210, 216, 255 Butley, 40–1, 43; The Lover, 16; One to Casey, Rosemary Another, 10; , 59; Late Love, 6 Pieces of Eight, 10 Castaldi, Charles, 167 Cohen, David, 218, 280 Caute, David, 176, 187 Cohen, Harold Cavalli, Francesco The Homecoming, 26 La Calisto, 37 Coke, Lady Anne, 103 Cavander, Kenneth, 16 Colbert, Claudette, 145 Celan, Paul, 110 Colgan, Michael, 210, 212, 226, 230–4, Chaillet, Ned, 177, 218, 223, 240, 287 238, 241, 246–7, 253–5, 259, 261, Betrayal, 183; Old Times, 241; Proust, 263–5, 267, 271, 275, 279, 290, 224 292–3, 295–8, 303–4 Chamberlain, Lord, 26, 29 Colley, Linda, 184, 199 Chang, Jung, 214, 219, 232, 242, 248, Collins, Barry 255, 292, 296, 299 Judgment, 62 Channon, Paul, 107, 132 Compton, Denis, 181 Chatwin, Bruce, 171, 176 Conrad, Joseph Chekhov, Anton, 293 Victory, 115 The Cherry Orchard, 79–80, 106, 146, Cook, Peter and Dudley Moore 232, 263; Ivanov, 234, 276; The Behind the Fridge, 50 Seagull, 36; The , 27, Cookson, Cherry, 133 156, 182; Uncle Vanya, 35, 72, 94, Cooney, Ray 116, 165, 175; Wild Honey, 134 Two into One, 136 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Cooper, Giles, 104, 116, 150 XI, 42, 47, 54, 61, 68, 74, 83, 91, Cooper, Lettice, 159 100, 108, 125, 133, 142, 159, 166, Cooper, Sir Robert, 112, 119, 182, 193, 174, 182, 198, 205, 214; Hurst 248, 250, 255–60, 262–4, 266–73, Green, 166, 174, 182, 190; Lloyd’s 275, 277–8, 280–1, 283–5, 287, 290, Register, 173, 181, 189, 197, 203, 292–3, 297–8 252, 260; Lord’s Taverners, 304; Cooper, Rowena, 64 Marlborough 1870, 165, 174, 181, Cooper, William, 139 189, 204, 236; McKinnon XI, 214, Coppola, Sofia, 291, 297 229; Metropolitan Police, 109, Lost in Translation, 284 144, 151, 159; NatWest Bank, 118, Corrigan, Dame Felicitas, 192 143, 159, 175, 181; Old Paulines, Costa-Gavras (Constantinos Gavras), 159, 164, 180, 204, 220, 228; Old 176 , 115, 288; Old Whits, Courtenay, Sir Tom, 70 204, 213, 229; Oxted, 116, 150, Coveney, Michael, 203 157, 206, 214, 259, 266, 282, 289; Coward, Sir Noël, 33–4, 67, 119 Pylewell, 204, 213, 221, 228, 244; Blithe Spirit, 67; Present Laughter, 7, Richmond, 55; Roehampton, 107, 106; A Private Life, 122 116, 150, 166, 174, 182, 191, 205, Cox, Constance 245; Shipton-under-Wychwood, Georgia Story, 7 213, 221, 245, 252, 267; Sidcup, Crabbe, Kerry Lee, 128, 134, 275, 278 84, 101, 118, 159, 191, 199, 206, Crawley, Aiden, 23 222, 230, 238, 246, 253, 260; cricket teams Sonning-on-Thames, 158, 181, 190; Alleyns, 117, 159; Ashtead, 115, 157; Tadworth, 175, 182, 198, 221, 227, Banstead, 91; Barclays Bank, 116, 243, 260, 274; Twickenham, 43, 55; 142, 158; Barnes Breakers, 204; Virgin Nomads, 283; Walton-on- Beddington, 213, 229, 245; Bromley, Thames, 199; Woldingham, 188, 244, 259; Chertsey, 157; Cranleigh, 212, 220, 228; Wycombe House, 151, 158, 174, 243; Cross Arrow, 235, 295 238; Eastcote, 117; Ewell and Roxley, Crimp, Martin 157; Gaieties (Ga), xi–xii, 36, 43, The Country, 258 45–6, 53, 55–7, 59, 63–5, 67, 72–3, Crisp, Quentin, 79 81, 84, 86–9, 91–3, 96–7, 101, 103, Crist, Judith, 29 106–7, 109, 113, 115–18, 120–1, Cristofer, Michael, 135, 206 127, 132, 138, 141–4, 147, 150–1, Crouse, Lindsay, 120 153–61, 163–6, 170, 172–5, 178, Curtis, Simon, 217 180–4, 186, 188–92, 194–9, 202–6, Cusac, Anne-Marie, 264 211–14, 216, 219–22, 225–32, Cusack, Sinéad, 111, 134, 147, 157, 284, 235–40, 243–6, 252–3, 257, 259–60, 317 264, 266–8, 274, 277, 280, 282–4, Custance, Michael, 194–8, 200 287–9, 291, 295–6, 304, 311; Cvitanovich, Frank Getty’s XI, 229, 238, 245, 268, 275; Dear Sarah, 181 Godalming, 158, 165, 204, 228; Great Hampden, 166, 190, 198, D’Escoto Brockmann, Miguel, 155–6, 205, 214, 221, 229, 237; Guardian, 179 42, 47, 54, 61, 68, 74, 83, 91, 100, D’Souza, Frances, 195, 241 108, 125, 133, 142, 159, 166, 174, Daish, Judy (JD), 63, 82, 123–81, 186–212, 182, 198, 205; Hampstead, 238; 214–29, 231–46, 248–99, 311, 322 Heartaches, 229, 275; Highgate, Daldry, Stephen, 198, 212, 214, 217, 91; Hornsey, 245, 252, 267; HP’s 225–6, 228–31, 236 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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The Hours, 278 Drabble, Dame Margaret, 133, 163, 230, Danner, Blythe 296 Betrayal, 94 Dudley, William, 287, 290 Davies, Rhys Duff, James No Escape, 7 The War at Home, 133 Davies, Terence Dukore, Bernard, 202 Distant Voices Still Lives, 168 Dunaway, Faye, 103, 145–6, 148–9, 151, Davies, Wyndham 229 Heat of the Day, 161 Dunkley, Sue, 202 Davis, Barry, 190, 192 Dworkin, Ronald, 157, 171, 197 Davis, Carol A Kind of Alaska, 134 East, Robert, 91, 93, 105–6, 132, 223, De la Tour, Frances, 143 227 De Niro, Robert, 59, 65, 104 The Hothouse, 223; Incident at Tulse Jacknife, 175; Last Tycoon, 58; Hill, 111 The Mission, 151 Eastwood, Clint de Souza, Edward, 133, 140 Unforgiven, 199 Dean, Michael, 30, 119 Eban, Abba, 130 Dench, Judi, 110 Eddington, Paul, 202, 224 Twelfth Night, 32 No Man’s Land, 201 Denham, Maurice, 109–10, 138 Edelstein, Gordon, 190 Devine, George, 90, 307 Eden, Clarissa, Countess of Avon, 91, Dickens, Charles 296 Hard Times, 77 Edson, Margaret Didion, Joan, 75, 169 Wit, 260 Dionysios, Nikos Edward, Rebecca, 243 Ephemera, 247 Edwards, David, 232, 257 Diss, Eileen (ED), 38, 41, 43–5, 60, 78, Edwards, Sydney, 51, 90 86, 93–4, 96, 98, 106–7, 109–10, Ehle, Jennifer, 202 113, 121–3, 130–1, 136–7, 139–40, Ekland, Britt, 20 147–9, 159, 185, 187, 203, 210, 217, Eliot, T.S., 65, 88, 152, 167, 303 219, 223, 227, 229, 234–5, 239–40, ‘East Coker’, 93 248, 253, 255–6, 263, 266–8, 286–8, ‘Little Gidding’, 68, 303 312 Elliott, Denholm, 188 The Dwarfs, 278; Langrishe, Go Down, Elliott, Michael, 91 43 Ellis, A.E. Dix, Otto, 195 Grand Manoeuvres, 57 Donner, Clive, 16, 20, 27, 30, 47, 66, 68, Elstob, Peter, 225 113, 145, 186, 290, 296 Elyot, Kevin The Caretaker, 15, 17; The Guest The Day I Stood Still, 241; Mouth to [The Caretaker], 16 Mouth, 264 Doré, Alexander Emery, Jack (JE), 63, 65–7, 71–2, 80, Mixed Doubles: An Entertainment on 83–5, 89, 99, 104, 116, 118–19, 122, Marriage, 30 137, 147, 167, 181, 204, 223, 225, Dorfman, Ariel, 184, 196, 214, 221, 230, 233, 312 234, 237, 241, 245, 247, 266, 268, The Putney Debates, 86 278 Engel, Susan, 8 Death and the Maiden, 189, 192, 194 Epstein, Barbara, 129, 135, 148, 156, Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 110 160, 169, 172, 176–7, 208, 261, 267 Dotrice, Roy, 43 Epstein, Jason, 185 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Esslin, Martin (ME), 13, 25, 31–5, 41, 46, Findlater, Richard, 13 84, 184, 312 Firth, Colin, 191, 225 German translation of No Man’s Land, Firth, Tazeena, 54 64 Fitzgerald, Edward, 169, 228, 303 Etherege, George and Rebecca, 216, 220, 222, 224, 226, The Man of Mode, 44 230–3, 246–8, 250, 253, 255–7, 260, Euripides 262–4, 266–8, 270–3, 275, 277, Alcestis, 261; , 274; Electra, 279–81, 287, 290, 292–5, 297–8; 219; Hecuba, 290, 294; Hippolytus, see also Fraser, Rebecca 191; Iphigenia at Aulis, 290; Medea, Fitzgerald, F. Scott 199 The Last Tycoon, 51 Evans, Matthew, 176, 234 Flanagan, Mary, 194, 200 Everett, Dany, 256 Flanagan, Pauline, 5, 68–9, 319 Ewart, Gavin, 187 Flaubert, Gustave, 310 Ewing, Ken, 98–101, 124 Fleetwood, Susan, 121 Ewing, Maria, 68, 97, 112–13, 139 Fleisser, Marieluise Eyre, Peter, 61, 66, 74–5, 91, 115, 136, 171, Pioneers in Inglestadt, 187 226, 232, 259, 272, 278, 286, 287 Fleming, Amy, 99 Berenice, 116 Florence, Peter, 286 Eyre, Sir Richard, 163–6, 175, 208, 229, Fonda, Jane, 178 255 Fonseca, Isabel, 166 Guys and Dolls, 114 Foot, Michael, 182 Forbes, Bryan, 31 Fairley, Michelle Ford, Anna, 104, 163, 167–8, 170, 210 Ashes to Ashes, 208; Oleanna, 208 Ford, John Falkus, Christopher (CF), 66, 72–3, 76–7, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, 163, 197 80–1, 93, 113, 127, 134, 143, 149, Ford, John, William Rowley and Thomas 162, 181, 215, 219, 222, 312 Dekker and Gila (CFs), 66–7, 69, 73–7, 79–89, The Witch of Edmonton, 119 91–5, 97–102, 104, 106–10, 113–32, Foreman, Amanda, 249 134–5, 138–9, 143, 146–8, 153, 156, Forrest, Michael, 125, 181, 183 159–60, 162–4, 166–7, 169, 171, Foster, Barry, 5, 37–8, 80, 104, 120, 126, 175–6, 181, 188, 190, 193, 195, 197, 155, 163, 178, 188, 216, 259, 263, 199, 201, 203, 205–6, 208, 210, 212, 313 214, 217–18 Foster, Giles, 125–9, 132, 134 Falkus, Gila, 221, 224, 227–8, 232, Fotopoulos, Takis, 218 236–7, 239, 256, 258, 273–4, 276–8, Fowles, John, 84–5, 91, 98, 109, 144 280–3, 285, 288, 290–3, 295–8, Fox, Edward, 105–6, 110, 287 312–13 Fox, James, 190, 205 Falkus, Hugh, 312 Fox, Joanna, 121 Faulkner, William Foyle, Christina, 33 The Big Sleep, 52 Frame, Janet Faulks, Sebastian, 226 An Angel at My Table, 185 Fay, Stephen, 212 Frankenheimer, John, 26 Feifer, Jules, 94 Frankovich, Allan, 171, 177, 201 Feitlowitz, Marguerite, 244 The Houses are Full of Smoke, 161 Fellowes, Julian, Baron, 268 Fraser, Dame (Lady) Antonia (HP’s Feydeau, Georges second wife) (AF), 57–79, 82–103, Mind Millie for Me, 227 106, 108, 110–12, 114–19, 121–2, Fiennes, Ralph, 265 125, 128–32, 135, 138–9, 141–3, Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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145–51, 154–7, 159–60, 162–3, Fraser, Tessa, see Keswick, Tessa 165, 168–73, 175, 178–84, 186, 189, Frayn, Michael, 119 191–2, 195–7, 199–201, 205–6, Alphabetical Order, 59; The Cherry 213–15, 218, 221, 223, 226–7, Orchard (translated from Chekhov), 229–35, 239, 243, 250, 253–4, 257, 79; , 244; Democracy, 260, 269–73, 275, 283, 285–6, 283; Donkey’s Years, 68; , 289–90, 292–3, 297–305, 307–9, 262; Uncle Vanya (translated from 311–13, 318, 320–2 Chekhov), 165; and Claire Tomalin, The Cavalier’s Case, 179; Charles II, 92; 76, 120, 125, 130, 133, 136–7, 144, Diaries, 274; Mary Queen of Scots, 156, 163, 180, 193, 204 109; Blood, 141; Quiet As Freed, Donald, 145–6, 149, 150–1, A Nun, 81 158–9, 162, 168–9, 174–5, 185, 187, Fraser, Benjamin (‘Benjie’) (BF), 120, 197, 206, 215, 222, 235, 240, 258, 163, 170, 172, 176, 182, 184–7, 190, 283, 289 192, 226, 251, 265, 273, 278, 282, Circle and Bravo, 145, 150–1; The 284, 286–7, 289, 293, 295–6, 313 Quartered Man, 162; Veteran’s Day, with Lucy Fraser (BFs), 189, 190, 193, 175 195, 197–201, 204, 207, 210, 215, Freud, Lucien, 274 218, 221, 225, 234, 239–42, 251, Frey, Sami 257, 263, 266, 268, 272–3, 275, 280, C’était hier (Old Times), 194 282–7, 289–90, 292–5, 297–8 Friedkin, William, 34 Fraser, Damian, 115, 130–1, 160, 244, Birthday Party, 34 248, 256, 271, 279, 298, 313 Friedlander, Rabbi Albert H., 157, 177, with Paloma Fraser, 212–14, 228, 237, 195 241, 249, 251–2, 260, 275, 290, 292, Friel, Brian, 254 296–7 Afterplay, 275; Aristocrats, 165; The Fraser, Flora (FF), 96, 99, 121, 135, 138, Communication Cord, 123; Dancing 149, 152, 157, 160–1, 180–1, 185–6, at Lughnasa, 184; Faith Healer, 194; 205, 209, 215, 222, 225–6, 229, Give Me Your Answer Do, 242; Molly 231–4, 239, 241–2, 244, 248, 251, Sweeney, 215; Translations, 106 255, 257, 259, 262, 265, 268, 272, Fromkin, David, 94, 107, 119, 124, 127, 276, 282, 284, 313 133, 135, 172, 181 and Robert Powell-Jones (FRs), 96–9, Fry, Christopher, 106, 121–5, 222 101, 103, 105, 107–8, 111, 113, 115, Two Plays (Labiche), 14 117–19, 121–4, 126–8, 130, 133–4, Fryer, Jonathan, 163 137–8, 143, 147, 154, 157, 161, 164, Fuchs, Francis 313 Poets against the Bomb, 103 Fraser, Sir Hugh, 61, 230, 313 Fuentes, Carlos, 147, 158, 181–2, 185, Fraser, Natasha, 96, 112, 140, 145, 160–1 190, 192, 198–9, 201, 209, 213, 216, as Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, 240, 242, 220–2, 236, 238, 240–1, 244, 248, 284; and John-Pierre Cavassoni, 252, 254, 259, 267, 274–5, 281, 285, 237, 241–2, 244, 248, 257, 262, 269, 291, 296 280, 285, 287, 291–2, 295, 313, 321 with Silva Fuentes, 170, 178–9 Fraser, Orlando, 90, 97, 106, 132, 137, Fugard, Athol, 110 155, 233, 241, 247, 272, 274, 276–7, Boesman and Lena, 130; The Island, 53; 280, 284–5, 288, 292, 295–6, 297, A Lesson from Aloes, 100; with John 313 Kani and Winston Ntshona, Sizwe Fraser, Rebecca, 169, 313 Bansi Is Dead, 52 as Rebecca Fitzgerald, 279; see also Fuller, John, 28, 31, 70, 75, 116 Fitzgerald, Edward Fuller, Roy, 197 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Gale, Steven H., 215 Boy Gets Girl, 269; Spinning into Butter, Gallerová, Vlasta, 183 263 Galsworthy, John Giordano, Umberto Strife, 86, 89 Andrea Chénier, 130 Gambon, Sir Michael (MGa), 64, 83, Giraudoux, Jean, 122–3 127, 160, 166, 298, 303, 314 The Trojan War Play, 122 Betrayal, 82; King Lear, 117; No Man’s Gissing, George Land, 303; Old Times, 145; Otherwise New Grub Street, 274 Engaged, 65; Uncle Vanya, 165 Glanville, Brian, 10 Gannon, Lucy Glass, Philip Dancing Attendance, 185 Einstein on the Beach, 70 Garcia, Nicole Glenconner, Elizabeth, Lady, 210 L’Adversaire, 284 Glinwood, Terry, 122, 124 Garrett, Tony, 72, 114, 117, 124–5, 141, Gluck, Christoph Willibald 145, 188, 196, 207, 224, 231 Orphée et Eurydice, 117 Garris, Leslie, 109 Godard, Jean-Luc, 19–20 Gaskill, William, 35 Breathless, 259 The Double Dealer, 32 Godbert, Geoffrey (GG), 77, 91–2, 97, Gelber, Jack, 24, 256 99, 109, 120, 136–7, 139, 146–7, Gellhorn, Martha, 166, 181 156–68, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, Gems, Jonathan 181–2, 184, 190, 193–8, 201, 208, The Tax Exile, 89 210, 214–15, 219, 251, 254, 266, Gems, Pam 314 Piaf, 95 Gold, Jack, 110 Genet, Jean, 310 Goldman, Milton, 129 The Maids, 52 Goldstein, Michael (Mick) (MG), 2, 19, Gershwin, George 21–2, 27, 33, 35, 41, 78, 151, 159, Crazy for You, 208 173, 192, 194, 206, 213, 237, 257, Gesù, Tony di, 24 281, 284, 315 Getty, Sir Paul, 283 Gooding, Mel, 296 Gheorghiu, Angela, 255 Gooding, Ossie, 121, 160, 278, 289 Gielgud, Sir John (JGi), 24, 53, 56, 58–9, Goodman, Arnold, 25, 27, 42–3, 56, 87, 62, 65, 82, 115, 211, 258, 306, 314, 186, 188, 193 320 Goodman, Harold (HG), 79, 87, 89–90, The Tempest, 53 92, 94–9, 102, 104–8, 108–9, Gieselmann, David 111–12, 114, 118–20, 122–3, 125–7, Mr Kolpert, 258 129–34, 136, 138–9, 141–6, 148, Giesing, Dieter 150–4, 156–60, 162, 165–7, 169, The Collection, 32 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 182–3, Gill, Peter, 32, 35 185–7, 191, 195–6, 198–9, 201, Kick for Touch, 122; Mean Tears, 158; 203–5, 207–11, 213, 218, 223–4, Over Gardens Out, 33; The York 226, 233, 238, 241, 248–9, 251, Realist, 271 255, 262, 265, 267, 270–4, 276, 279, Gillen, Francis, viii, 188, 197, 212, 281–2, 284, 286, 290–3, 297–9 259 Goodwin, Daisy, 167 The Pinter Review, 173; Remembering/ Goodwin, John Celebrating Harold Pinter, 304 ’s Diaries, 316 Gilliatt, Penelope, 164 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 199 Gillott, Jacky, 38, 42 Gordimer, Nadine, 156, 180, 213–14 Gilman, Rebecca Gordon, Lois, 38 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Gottlieb, Robert, 89, 94–5, 116, 135, Three Days of Rain, 255 142, 153, 160, 169, 176, 208, 221, Greene, Graham, 187, 189 295 The Living Room, 7; The Quiet Gounod, Charles American, 277 Roméo et Juliette, 216, 256 Greenwell, Peter, 109 Graham, Martha, 91 Greig, David Graham, Nessie, 147, 153 Outlying Islands, 275 Graham, W.S., 47, 77, 82, 103, 147, 213, Greig, Geordie, 247, 288, 290 254, 306 Griffiths, Trevor, 70 Graham-Yooll, Andrew, 130, 138, 163–4, Grindea, Miron, 155 185, 194–5, 221, 244 Grisogono, Vivian, 149 Grant, Steve, 206 Gross, John (JG), 63, 65, 73, 79, 84, 87, Granville-Barker, Harley 92, 98, 103, 112, 117, 120, 127–9, The Voysey Inheritance, 20, 175; Waste, 179, 200, 210, 265, 315 138 Gross, Miriam, 63, 98, 101 Gray, Piers, 228 Grove, Valerie, 64, 241 Gray, Simon (SG), ix, 41–3, 45, 49, Grunwald, Dimitri de, 40–1, 44 56–8, 60–74, 76–80, 82–9, 91–2, Guinness, Sir Alec, 19–20 94–7, 99–102, 104–16, 118–37, 139, Guinness, Ingrid, 107 141–3, 145–6, 149–51, 153, 155–6, Gursel, Mustapha, 143 158–62, 164–6, 168, 170–8, 181–3, Gussow, Mel, 45, 94–6, 142, 169, 181, 185, 187, 189–93, 197, 202–4, 190, 205–6, 213, 254–5, 262, 265, 206–7, 209–12, 214–16, 218, 220, 267, 277 223–9, 231–7, 240–2, 245–6, 248–9, 251–5, 259, 264, 266, 272, 275, Hale, John, 71 278–9, 282, 285–8, 292, 298–9, 302, Hall, Ann, 258 303, 308–9, 311–13, 315, 319 Hall, Sir Peter (PH), 14, 21, 27, 29–33, After Pilkington, 154; Butley, 40–1, 45, 35–6, 39–42, 44, 48, 51–65, 67–9, 47; Cell Mates, 218; Close of Play, 71–82, 88, 90–5, 98, 102–3, 107, 84; Common Pursuit, 131, 163; Dog 112–14, 118, 120–3, 126, 163, 174–5, Days, 70; Hidden Laughter, 181; The 182, 185, 193, 254, 262, 287, 296, Late Middle Classes, 245, 249; Life 306, 308, 314–16, 318–19 Support, 235; Melon, 156; Molly, 85; Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, A Month in the Country, 160; The 55; Betrayal, 79, 82, 84–5, 94–5, 282, Old Masters, 286; Otherwise Engaged, 284; Close of Play, 91; Family Voices, 59; Plaintiffs and Defendants, 63; 104, 119; The Go-Between, 46; Happy Quartermaine’s Terms, 107; The Days, 285; The Homecoming, 18, 20, Rear Column, 76, 317; Simply 30, 46, 50–1; The Hothouse, 90, 97; Disconnected, 227; Stage Struck, 94; A Kind of Alaska, 119; La Calisto, 37; They Never Slept, 184; An Unnatural Landscape, 31; Next of Kin, 51; No Pursuit, 138; and Beryl, and then Man’s Land, 56, 59, 64; Old Times, Victoria Rothschild (SGs), 47, 62, 42, 44, 47, 315; The Servant, 31; The 64, 66, 71–5, 78, 83, 85–6, 88, 94, Tempest, 53; Victoria Station, 119 96, 103, 108, 111, 113–14, 117–18, Hall, Richard, 76 121–3, 126, 133, 144, 149, 150, Hall, Willis, 37 153, 156–7, 159, 161, 173, 177, Halliday, Jon, 232, 242, 248, 255, 296, 181, 187–8, 189, 192, 194–5, 197–8, 299 200, 203–5, 207–9, 212–14, 216–21, Halliwell, David 224–9, 231–4, 238, 240–99, 302 Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against Greenberg, Richard the Eunuchs, 249 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Halton, Kathleen, 26 Goodbye Kiss, 258; The Guests, 258; Hamilton, Ian (IH), 22, 29, 33, 48, 52, The Handyman, 230; Interlopers, 58–9, 61–2, 65, 73, 78, 80–1, 86–7, 146; J.J. Farr, 161; Mahler’s 101, 108, 116, 134, 143, 147, 160, Conversion, 269; The Ordeal of Gilbert 192, 206, 208, 233, 243, 316 Pinfold, 76; Reflected Glory, 196; A Slight Ache, 11, 316 Taking Sides, 217, 219, 269, 316; Hammerstein, James, 29, 38, 54, 70, 83 Tramway Road, 136 Hampshire, Susan, 100, 105 Hastings, Henry, 131 Hampton, Christopher, 107–8, 154, 230 Hastings, Hugh The Philanthropist, 38, 188; The Portage Seagulls over Sorrento, 7 to San Cristobel of A.H., 113 Hastings, Max, 295 Handel, George Frideric Hastings, Michael Xerxes, 194, 277 Tom and Viv, 131 Hare, David, 295, 303, 311 Hauser, Frank, 113 The Absence of War, 207; Amy’s View, Havel, Olga, 200 237; The Bay at Nice, 152; Designated Havel, Václav, 72, 93, 99, 178–9 Mourner, 227; The Hours, 278; Life Audience, 71; Private View, 71; of Galileo (Brecht), 209; A Map of Temptation, 164; with Olga, 173 the World, 121; My Zinc Bed, 260; Hawks, Howard The Permanent Way, 286; Plenty, The Big Sleep, 52 81; , 179; The Reader, Haydock, Alan, 39 303; The Secret Rapture, 168; Stuff Haygarth, Tony Happens, 291 Dark Meaning Mouse, 283 Harmston, Joe, 247–8 Heath-Stubbs, John, 106 The Collection, 243; The Lover, 243 Hecht, Ben and Charles MacArthur Harris, Richard The Front Page, 49 Outside Edge, 92, 120 Heinz, Drue, 93 Harris, Robert Heinz, John and Teresa, 153 Enigma, 268 Hellman, Lillian, 54, 70 Harrison, Tony The Little Foxes, 270; and Dashiell Hecuba (Euripedes), 294; Phaedra Hammett, Watch on the Rhine, 101 Britannica, 63 Henderson, Sir Nicholas, 241 Hart, Moss and George S. Kaufman Herbert, F. Hugh Once in a Lifetime, 92 The Moon is Blue, 7 Hartley, Leslie Poles, 29, 307 Hern, Nick (NH), 73–5, 77, 79, 81–2, 93, The Go-Between, 17, 41 95, 98, 101–2, 105, 113, 132, 135, Harwood, Sir Ronald (RH), 36–40, 43, 137–8, 140–1, 143–4, 147, 149, 152, 49–50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 64–5, 77, 80, 160, 162, 164, 176, 207, 209–10, 91–3, 101, 104–6, 108, 113, 116, 221, 277, 286, 290, 294 120, 122, 127, 130, 145, 148, 150, Common Pursuit, 133 153, 157, 159, 161–2, 169, 171, Hersey, David, 54 174, 182, 186, 189, 193, 200, 206, Herzog, Werner 208–11, 213–14, 216, 218–20, 228, Fitzcarraldo, 117 232–3, 237, 245, 247–8, 253–4, Hewison, Robert 259, 262, 267, 277, 279, 294, 303, Under Siege: Literary Life in London 311–12, 316 1939–45, 76 Being Julia (Maugham), 292; The Hibbert, Guy Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest, On the Edge, 146 152; , 97, 127, 294; Hickey, William, 62 Equals Divided, 246; A Family, 84; Hicks, Grant, 196–8 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Higgins, Aidan, 49 Gabler, 191, 294; John Gabriel Balcony of Europe, 49; Langrishe, Go Borkman, 58, 228; Little Eyolf, 139; Down, 34 The Master Builder, 282; Rosmersholm, Hikmet, Nâzım, 187, 191 77; The Wild Duck, 181 Hill, Ken Imison, Richard, 19, 166, 203 The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 78 Inshaw, David, 291, 294, 297 Hinchliffe, Arnold P. Ionesco, Eugene Harold Pinter, 23 Victims of Duty, 13 Hines, Barry Irons, Jeremy (JI), 93, 100, 103, 110–11, Threads, 135 134, 147, 151, 157, 222, 316 Hitchcock, Sir Alfred, 17 The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 317; Rear Window, 128 The Mission, 151; The Remains of the Hitchcock, Jane Stanton, 172, 176–7 Day, 187; The Winter’s Tale, 151 Vanilla, 172 Irvin, John Hoare, Charmian, 249 Turtle Diary, 138, 142 Hoban, Russell, 127 Isaacs, Sir Jeremy, 124, 233 Turtle Diary, 125 with Gillian, 185 Hobson, Sir Harold, 8–9, 32, 41, 100, Ishiguro, Kazuo 200 The Remains of the Day, 178 Hodge, Douglas, 290 Itallie, Jean-Claude van Dumb Waiter, 286 America Hurrah, 26 Hodge, Patricia, 109, 124, 127, 160, 165 Ives, Kenneth (KI), 114, 116, 134, As You Like It, 125; The Mitford Girls, 136–40, 144–7, 151, 157, 159–61, 109 173, 194, 199, 210, 224, 228, 238, Hoffman, Dustin, 300 247, 254, 262, 276, 295, 316 Holland, Julian, 11 The Birthday Party, 158, 316; Caretaker, Holm, Sir Ian, 25, 76, 176, 202, 262, 107; Dumb Waiter, 143, 316; A Kind 265, 268 of Alaska, 137, 316; Landscape, 121; Holroyd, Sir Michael, 163, 287, 296 One for the Road, 142–3, 160; Other Hopkins, Sir Anthony, 127 Places, 316; Victoria Station, 139 Hopkins, John, 52–4 Ivory, James, 196 Next of Kin, 51 Horne, Marilyn, 149 Jackley, Mike, 168 Horovitz, Frances, 128 Jacobi, Sir Derek, 214 Household, Geoffrey Jaeger, Kobi Rogue Male, 66 The Trial, 188 Howard, Elizabeth Jane, 118 James, Henry Hoxby, Derek, 143 The Ambassadors, 90 Hudgins, Christopher C., 132, 215, 258 James, P.D., Baroness, 120, 125, 130, Hughes, Dusty 132–3, 182, 187, 192 Jenkin’s Ear, 158 James, Peter Hughes, Nick, 269 Landscape, 51 Hutchinson, Jeremy, Baron, 190 Janácˇek, Leoš Hutton, Len, 32 The Cunning Little Vixen, 204, 279; Hytner, Sir Nicholas, 269 Jenu˚fa, 258, 269; Katya Kabanova, Xerxes (Handel), 277 210 Jara, Victor, 206, 212 Ibsen, Henrik Jarman, Derek A Doll’s House, 167; The Enemy of the The Tempest, 98; War Requiem, 170; People, 170; Ghosts, 153, 265; Hedda Wittgenstein, 203 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Jarre, Maurice, 63–4 Josipovici, Gabriel, 34, 128 The Last Tycoon, 62 Joyce, James, 3, 102 Jarrott, Charles Exiles, 38; Ulysses, 2 The Basement, 24; Tea Party, 18 Joyce, Paul, 51 Jarvis, Martin, 122 Juliá, Raúl, 94 Jay, Margaret, Baroness, 116, 138, 158, Juncker, Klaus, 46, 60, 86, 88, 92 189, 221 Jupp, Kenneth, 293 Jay, Peter, 110, 120, 128, 131, 135–6, Tosca’s Kiss, 291 138, 145 Jenkins, Alan, 215, 316 Kafka, Franz, 298 Jenkins, Hugh, Baron, 152 The Trial, 178, 317 Jenkins, Roy, Baron, 280 Kahane, Eric, 34, 42, 60, 65, 80, 86, 92, Jenn, Stephen, 149 130, 132, 136, 140–1, 152, 156, 170, Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 213, 230, 241, 253 The Remains of the Day, 184 Ashes to Ashes, 241; Trahisons Joffé, Roland, 146, 151 [Betrayal], 253 John, Errol Kahlo, Frida, 296 Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, 164; Kahn, Joan The Thin Blue Line, 171 The Edge of the Chair, 28 John, Gwen, 117 Kalmus, Dr Alfred, 30 Johnson, B.S., 19, 27–8 Kane, Richard Johnson, Diane, 116 Miss Roach’s War, 241 Johnson, Jill, 151, 154, 161, 164, 177, Kane, Sarah, 228, 230, 240, 250 184–5, 187, 193, 196, 198, 201, 4.48 Psychosis, 259; Blasted, 217, 265; 204, 206, 210, 212–17, 219–21, 224, Crave, 246 226–8, 231–6, 238, 240–3, 245–7, Kapus´cin´ ski, Ryszard 249–51, 253–6, 259–63, 265–8, The Emperor, 156 270, 272–6, 278–9, 281–3, 285–92, Kaut-Howson, Helena, 217 294–6, 298, 308 Full Moon, 218 The Lover, 155; A Slight Ache, 155 Kazan, Elia (EK), 57–8, 61–2, 139, 317 Johnson, Richard, 64, 78, 124–6, 128, The Last Tycoon, 52, 57–9 134, 136, 139, 181 Keane, John (artist), 195 Johnson, Terry Keane, John (political thinker), 202 Insignificance, 117 Keane, John B. Johnston, Brian, 182 Sive, 240 Jones, David (DJ), 30, 38, 43, 95, 107–8, Keeffe, Barrie 110, 112–14, 116–17, 120, 123, The Long Good Friday, 103 129–31, 134–5, 137–8, 141, 143–5, Keitel, Harvey, 104 150, 156, 172–3, 192–4, 197–9, Kellaway, Kate, 290 207–9, 214, 217, 221–2, 244, 246, Kember, Paul 249, 252, 266, 273, 282, 287, 298, Not Quite Jerusalem, 103 317 Kemp-Welch, Joan Custom of the Country (Nicholas The Birthday Party, 10; The Collection, Wright), 128; Old Times, 145; 13; Night School, 11 The Trial, 193, 317 Kendal, Felicity, 113, 203, 322 Jones, Gari, 253, 268, 271, 282, 291 Kennedy, Jacqueline (Onassis), Jonson, Ben 24, 94 Bartholomew Fair, 83; , 73 Kennelly, Karen, 135 Jordan, Neil, 235 Kennerly, K., 139 Joseph, Stephen, 5 Kenny, Sir Anthony, 249 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Kent, Nicolas Bash, 256; The Mercy Seat, 284; Nuremberg Trial: The War Crimes, 227 The Shape of Things, 266 Kenwright, Bill, 201 Lafitte, Jean, 208 Kershaw, John, 17 Lagerfield, Karl, 94 Kerslake, Rosie, 137 Lahr, John, 98, 207, 237 Kesten, Hermann, 270 Laing, R.D., 79 Keswick, Sir Henry, 115 Lakshmi, Padma, 262, 282, 285, 320; Keswick, Mary, 146 see also Rushdie, Sir Salman Keswick, Tessa, 115, 146 Lambert, Verity, 127 Key, Janet, 200 Lang, Brian, 201, 253, 258 Khan, Imran, 198 Lang, Jacques, 152 Khomeini, Ayatollah, 94 Langley, Lee, 17, 51 King, Francis, 147, 174 Larkin, Philip, 24, 47–8, 59, 61, 85, King, Philip 147–8, 288 See How They Run, 130; Serious ‘Aubade’, 79; Larking: Poems, 271; Change, 7; and Anthony Armstrong, Poems by , 306 Here We Come Gathering, 6 Laurens, Joanna Kingsley, Sir Ben, 75, 110, 123 Five Gold Rings, 285 Kishi, Tetsuo, 100, 108, 134, 158, 166, Law, Jude, 283–4, 286, 291, 295 169, 193 Sleuth, 279, 281, 291 Kissell, Howard, 121 Lawson, Denis, 208 Kitchen, Michael, 104, 110 Oleanna, 210 Kleist, Heinrich von Lawson, Leigh The Prince of Homburg, 115, 272 Old Times, 220 Klimowski, Andrzej, 179, 182 Lawson, Mark, 221 Klingenberg, Gerhard, 89 Lawson, Nigella, 178 Knowles, Ronald, 198 Le Carré, John, 80 Knox, Tony, 160 The Tailor of Panama, 257 Kohler, Estelle, 41 Leavis, F.R., 310, 316 Kollek, Teddy, 81, 89, 118 Lechner, Geno Korder, Howard Taking Sides, 222 Search and Destroy, 263 Leigh, Mike Kossoff, Leon, 228 Goose-Pimples, 105; Secrets & Lies, 227 Koval, Ramona, 275, 300 Lemon, Betty, 4 Kroll, Jack, 98 Lemon, Jack, 175 Kubrick, , 116 Leonard, Hugh, 234 2001, 153 Lerner, Alan Jay Kulukundis, Eddie, 38–9, 105 On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Kureishi, Hanif 256 Birds of Passage, 126 Lester, Richard, 109, 112–17, 119, 131, Kushner, Tony 144 , 196 Victory, 116 Kustow, Michael (MK), 40, 52, 65, 67, Leveaux, David, 193, 198, 206–7, 228, 77, 79, 82, 298, 317 230, 246, 252–3, 255, 261, 264–5 Kuznetsov, Eduard, 82 Hothouse, 222; Moonlight, 205; No Kyncl, Ivan, 143 Man’s Land, 196; Trahisons, 253 Lewis, C.S. Labiche, Eugène Shadowlands, 309 Two Plays, 14 Lewis, Peter, 14 LaBute, Neil Leyser, Karl, 132 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Lietzau, Hans, 33 Major, Sir John, 186 Landscape, 34; The Servant, 34 Malkovich, John, 182, 304 Ligeti, György Malle, Louis, 102 Le Grand Macabre, 120 Atlantic City, 105; Au Revoir Les Livingstone, Ken, 285 Enfants, 168 Lloyd-Pack, Roger, 130, 189 Mallin, Tom Loesser, Frank Curtains, 40 Guys and Dolls, 296 Mamet, David, 95, 120, 129, 134, 137, Longford, Elizabeth (Elizabeth 169, 180, 203–4, 256–7, 264, 312, Pakenham, Countess of Longford), 314 91, 126–7, 151, 229, 237, 246, 258, American Buffalo, 83, 134; Catastrophe, 260–2, 275–6, 279, 282, 313; see also 257; Edmond, 282; Glengarry Glen Pakenham, Frank Ross, 126, 147, 201; House of Games, Longford, Lord, see Pakenham, Frank 161; The Old Neighborhood, 245; Losey, Joseph (JL), 11, 16, 21–2, 24, 27, Oleanna, 204; Sexual Perversity, 281; 29–30, 33–4, 37–40, 43–4, 46–50, Speed-the-Plow, 171; Things Change, 52–4, 82, 90, 100, 103, 107, 111, 171 122, 124–7, 130, 132–3, 135, 176, Mandela, Nelson, 203 209, 310, 317, 321 Mann, Klaus Á la recherche du temps perdu (‘Proust’), Siblings, 171 45–6, 63, 317; Accident, 18, 22–3, Manning, Olivia, 64, 89 317; The Go-Between, 17, 36–7, 40–1, Marber, Patrick, 251, 260–1, 314 317; The Romantic Englishwoman, After Miss Julie, 285; Caretaker, 260; 63; The Servant, 15–16, 317; and Dealer’s Choice, 218 Patricia (JLs), 20, 25, 27, 38, 47, 49, Marceau, Marcel, 48 74, 75, 100, 117, 119, 122, 125, 129 Marchessini, Dimitri, 124 Losey, Patricia, 133, 137, 139, 142, 144, Markova, Aglika, 217 155, 164, 167, 174, 176, 184–5, 188, Marks, Louis (LM), 59–60, 94, 97, 100–1, 193–4, 196–7, 207, 211, 227, 229, 103, 116, 125, 128, 138, 166, 171, 238, 244, 254, 291, 317 173–7, 179, 181, 184, 186, 188, Lowell, Robert, 39, 77–9 192, 194, 197–8, 202–4, 223, 239, Lukes, Milan, 225 243, 254, 263, 265, 268, 271–2, 274, Lurie, Alison, 66, 170 276–7, 279–81, 283–5, 287, 289–94, Luz, Alfredo, 257 296, 298, 317 Lyall, Sarah, 178 Marks, Vic, 214 Lyne, Adrian Marlowe, Christopher Lolita, 210–11 , 69 Marlowe, Derek, 91 Macaulay, Alastair, 230, 259, 296, 298 Marowitz, Charles, 12, 26 Macdonell, A.G. Marshall, E.G., 222 England, Their England, 153 Marshall, Sir Walter, 133 Machado, Eduardo, 183 Martin, Elliot, 145–6 Mackay, Fulton, 65, 68 Martinu˚ , Bohuslav Maclaren-Ross, Julian, 248–9 The Greek Passion, 258 MacNeice, Louis Marx Brothers Autumn Journal, 93 A Night At the , 48 MacNeil, Ian, 190–1 Maschler, Tom, 106, 144 Magee, Patrick, 118–19 Massenet, Jules Krapp’s Last Tape, 64 Chérubin, 232; Don Quixote, 215 Mailer, Norman, 24, 94 Massey, Anna, 66, 80, 85, 110, 206, 219 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Matisse, Henri, 274 Mercer, David (DM), 35, 39, 44, 49–52, Maugham, Robin, Viscount 56, 59, 62, 72, 78, 81, 87, 93, 97, The Servant, 15, 264 101, 112, 318 Maugham, W. Somerset After Haggerty, 40; Cousin Vladimir, 85; Being Julia, 292 Duck Song, 52; Flint, 35; No Limits to Mayersberg, Paul, 17 Love, 102; Shooting the Chandelier, McCowen, Alec, 47–8, 110 76 Butley, 48 Merchant, Ismail, 196 McCrum, Robert, 177–9, 181, 201 Merchant, Vivien (HP’s first wife) (VM), McDiarmid, Ian, 256–7 6, 8, 21, 26–7, 31–2, 35–7, 47, 49, McDonagh, Martin 53–4, 58–62, 64–5, 68, 70–4, 76, 80, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 226; 82–9, 91, 93, 95–6, 100–1, 116, 118, The Cripple of Inishmaan, 232; 317, 319, 322 , 286 All Over, 70; Flint, 35–6; The McEwan, Ian, 114, 116–17, 127, 134, Homecoming, 25; Landscape, 306; 155, 167, 169, 171, 185, 187, 189, Macbeth, 26; The Maids, 52; A Night 197, 211–12, 215, 239, 268, 302 Out, 10–11; Old Times, 45, 318 The Comfort of Strangers, 170; Enduring Merritt, Susan Hollis, 213, 222, 236, Love, 287 244, 264 McFerran, Douglas, 195, 202 The Pinter Review, 213 Obsession, 200 Messina, Cedric, 74 McGrath, John, 216 Meyer, Marlane Gomard and Richard Norton-Taylor, Half the Etta Jenks, 184 Picture, 213 Meyer, Michael McGuinness, Frank Summer Days: Writers on Cricket, 108 Dolly West’s Kitchen, 258; Factory Michael, Danny, 174 Girls, 164; Observe the Sons of Ulster Michell, Roger, 230–3, 275, 286–7, Marching Towards the Somme, 151; 290–1 Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, 198 Enduring Love, 287; The Homecoming, McIntyre, Claire 231; ‘Michael Redgrave: His Father’, Low Level Panic, 163 237 McKellen, Sir Ian, 99 Middleton, Thomas Richard II, 33 Women Beware Women, 147; and McKinnon, Ian, 214, 229, 253 William Rowley, The Changeling, 84, McMaster, Anew, 5, 140, 313 165 McPherson, Conor Mikelides, Ninos, 239 Carol, 256; Port Authority, 264; Miles, Sir Bernard, 35, 42, 44, 47, 50 Shining City, 289; , 241 Millar, Ronald McWhinnie, Donald, 10, 13, 24 Waiting for Gillian, 7 Caretaker, 11; A Night Out, 10; A Slight Miller, Arthur, 71, 119, 135, 139–40, Ache, 12 156, 163, 175, 178, 183, 185, 202, Mehta, Sonny, 169 293 and Gita, 169, 172, 176 After the Fall, 135; All My Sons, 117, Melville, Alan 268; The American Clock, 152; The Simon and Laura, 7 Archbishop’s Ceiling, 153; Broken Mendes, Sam, 201, 208–9, 238, 253, Glass, 214; The Crucible, 102; Death 257 of a Salesman, 93, 231; The Last Birthday Party, 209; Cabaret, 209; Yankee, 204; The Price, 178–9, 277; monologue, 51; Night, 51; The Road to Two Way Mirror, 170; A View from Perdition, 275 the Bridge, 155, 160 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Miller, Henry, 4 Mortimer, Penelope, 20, 53, 71, 81, 117 Miller, Inge, 140, 152, 156, 178 The Pumpkin Eater, 15; and John Miller, John, 213 Mortimer, 24, 32–3, 152, 163–7, Miller, Jonathan, 126, 192, 290 170–2, 184 The Emperor, 156; The Importance Moskowitz, Harry, 1 of Being Earnest, 52; Measure for Mosley, Nicholas Measure, 52 Accident, 18, 20–1, 66, 71, 79–80 Minghella, Anthony Moss, Stephen, 252 Cold Mountain, 285 Motion, Sir Andrew, 182 Mirren, Dame Helen, 109 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 116, 302 Mitchell, Gary La Clemenza di Tito, 275; Così fan tutte, As the Beast Sleeps, 269 83, 113, 219; Don Giovanni, 195, Mitchell, Julian 283; Marriage of Figaro, 160, 174, , 116 212; Zaide, 113 Mitchell, Katie Munsil, Janet Mountain Language, 265 Smoking with Lulu, 272 Mitchell, Warren, 99 Murat, Bernard, 157, 207 Mitterand, François, 136 Murphy, Jimmy Mohan, Patricia, see Losey, Joseph; Brothers of the Brush, 226 Losey, Patricia Murphy, John, 33 Molière, 235 Murphy, Tom Don Juan, 291; The School for Wives, The Gigli Concert, 194 208; Tartuffe, 228 Mussorgsky, Modest Morahan, Christopher (CM), 21–2, 30, Boris Godunov, 127, 247, 284 35, 40, 42, 45, 47, 49–50, 52–4, 56–7, 63–6, 72, 80, 82–3, 85, 87, 91, Nabokov, Vladimir 97, 100, 107, 114, 122, 128, 132, Lolita, 211, 323 139, 148, 161–5, 173–4, 177, 193–4, Naipaul, Sir V.S., 97, 226, 255 203, 215, 278, 318 and Pat, 66; and wife/partner, 98, 155, The Caretaker, 46, 318; The Dwarfs, 203, 245, 247, 252, 258, 275, 290, 297 318; Heat of the Day, 170, 177, 318; Neild, Robert, 138 Melon, 156; monologue, 50, 318; Nelson, Richard Night Out, 34; Old Times, 63, 185; A Between East and West, 161; Some Slight Ache, 24; State of Revolution, 73 American Abroad, 175 Morgan, Natasha Neruda, Pablo, 289 Mother’s Arms, 112 Netanyahu, Binyamin, 239 Morley, Sheridan, 222, 255, 314 Newark, Derek, 245 Morris, Colin Newman, Paul, 130 Reluctant Heroes, 7 Newman, Sydney, 143–4 Morris, Edmund Nichols, Dandy, 27 The Wooden Dish, 7 Nichols, Mike (MN), 53, 63, 96, 98–9, Morris, Errol 102, 113, 129, 135–6, 161, 164, 169, The Thin Blue Line, 171 178, 182, 184, 187, 190, 192–3, 195, Morrison, Bill 227, 246, 258, 261, 318 Flying Blind, 83 Betrayal, 98; Hurlyburly, 135; Primary Morrison, Blake, 148 Colors, 247; , 129; Mortimer, Sir John, 27 Wit, 260 Come As You Are, 34; A Voyage Round Nichols, Peter, 51 My Father, 40, 43 Born in the Gardens, 96; Forget-Me-Not Mortimer, Justin, 198 Lane, 42; Passion Play, 105, 257; Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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A Piece of My Mind, 156; and Oldman, Gary, 147, 184 Thelma, 117 Olivier, Laurence, Baron (LO), 14, 25, Nicolson, Nigel, 66, 71 51, 66, 174, 176, 225, 307, 314, Nightingale, Benedict, 86, 88, 120, 144 318, 320 Nissim, Elio, 186 The Dance of Death, 25; King Lear, 122; The Room, 14 and Joan Plowright (Lady Olivier) Niven, Alastair, 218 (LOs), 66, 72, 103, 120, 148 Norman, Barry, 18 Ormond, Julia, 236–47, 250, 253, 256, Norman, Frank 278, 282 Insideout, 34 Old Times, 241 Norton-Taylor, Richard Oresko, Robert, 236, 242–6, 252, 255, Justifying War, 284; and John 257, 259, 262–3, 267–8, 272, 274–5, McGrath, Half the Picture, 213 278, 283, 286, 293, 296 Nunn, Sir Trevor, 33, 39–40, 231, 241, Ortega, Daniel, 172 245–6, 248, 267 Orton, Joe, 23, 26, 147 Betrayal, 246; Once in a Lifetime, 92; Crimes of Passion, 25; What the Butler The Revenger’s Tragedy, 35 Saw, 219 Osborne, John, 12, 27, 75, 109–10, 117, O’Brien, Barry, 7 151, 220 O’Brien, Edna (EO), 28, 36, 47, 49–50, , 150; Inadmissible 75–6, 78–9, 84, 88, 91, 94, 96, Evidence, 84; Look Back in Anger, 100–1, 104–5, 120–2, 124–6, 136–7, 252; A Patriot for Me, 125; A Sense 143, 147–8, 150, 154–5, 160–2, 164, of Detachment, 50; Watch It Come 166, 168, 170–1, 174–5, 177–9, Down, 66 180–2, 186, 188, 190, 194, 196, Ostrovsky, Alexander N., 166 198–9, 203–4, 215–16, 218, 220, 224, Otway, Thomas 226, 229–30, 236, 240, 244, 246, Venice Preserv’d, 132 251–3, 255–6, 258, 260–1, 263, 265–6, Owen, Alun, 6, 150 268–9, 271–5, 277–9, 282–3, 286, 288, Owen, Michael, 61, 109, 126, 180, 222 290, 292–4, 296–7, 299, 303, 318 Owen, Peter, 28 The Country Girls, 127, 318; Our Father, Owen, Peter Douglas, 124 254; Virginia, 104 Owen, Wilfred, 290, 294 O’Brien, Timothy, 52–4 Oz, Amos, 127, 197, 246 O’Casey, Sean Juno and the Paycock, 102, 204; The Packard, William, 26 Plough and the Stars, 293; Shadow of Page, Anthony, 10 a Gunman, 291 Page, Stephen, 270, 277, 280–1, 285, O’Keeffe, John 293, 295, 299 Wild Oats, 76 Pagett, Nicola, 137 O’Neill, Eugene Painter, George, 175 The Long Voyage Home, 87; Mourning Pakenham, Frank (Lord Longford; 7th Becomes Electra, 285 Earl of Longford), 105, 149, 170, O’Neill, Terry, 103 173, 181–2, 187, 190, 203, 212, 224, O’Toole, Fintan, 211 246, 255, 261–2, 267–8, 273, 313 O’Toole, Peter and Elizabeth (Countess of Longford), Rogue Male, 66 75, 78, 81, 83, 86, 93, 97, 105, Oakes, Philip, 16, 42 111–12, 120, 137, 153–4, 157, Odets, Clifford 161–2, 167, 170, 173, 175, 177, 186, Rocket to the Moon, 117 192, 194, 201, 204, 213, 216, 225, Okri, Ben, 212 234, 248, 250, 255, 313 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Pakenham, Sir Michael, 262 ‘Pinta, Harold’, 5, 6 and Mimi, 160, 211, 217, 232, 235, Pinter, Frances (née Moskowitz; HP’s 248, 254, 258, 272, 277–8, 284, 286, mother) (FP), 1, 2, 5, 6, 115, 130, 288, 292, 298 139, 186, 195, 199, 207, 319 Pakenham, Thomas (8th Earl of Pinter, Hyman (Jack; HP’s father) Longford), 220, 225 (HJP), 1, 5, 140, 148, 163, 195, and Val (TPs), 74, 111, 116, 125–6, 202–38, 319 134, 136–7, 139, 141–2, 146, 148, and Frances, 19–21, 23, 25–8, 31, 159–60, 163, 170, 185, 194, 207, 34–7, 40–1, 44–8, 52, 55–6, 59, 215–16, 218, 225, 270, 274, 278, 60–3, 71–8, 80–4, 86–7, 89–93, 299 95–9, 100, 102–6, 108, 110, Pakenham, Val (Countess of Longford), 112–14, 116–17, 119–25, 128–44, 182, 187, 190 146, 148, 150–63, 165–7, 169–78, Palumbo, Peter, Baron, 194 180–99 Paretsky, Sara, 171, 180 Piper, Tom Pascal, Julia Birthday Party, 209 Crossing Jerusalem, 280 Pirandello, Luigi Pavans, Jean, 280 Rules of the Game, 196; Six Characters Pels, Laura, 218, 222–3, 228, 242, 247 in Search of an Author, 155 Penhall, Joe Planchon, Roger, 141, 280, 294 Dumb Show, 290 Pleasence, Angela, 246 Pennington, Michael, 99, 210 Pleasence, Donald (DP), 23–5, 27, 30, Taking Sides, 219 37, 40, 45–6, 60–2, 64, 68, 76, 78, Peppiatt, Michael, 236 85, 89, 91, 119–20, 137, 139, 155, Percival, Ron, 2, 3 159, 162, 177, 181, 188, 190, 194, Perloff, Carey, 169, 172, 205, 259, 267 207, 210, 215–16, 218, 222, 319, Perrier, Jean-Louis, 280 321 Peter, John, 200, 212, 247, 271, 276, The Caretaker, 11, 319 281, 284, 291 Plimpton, George, 71 Petraglia, Jorge Plowright, Joan, see Olivier, Laurence The Caretaker, 16, 49 Plumb, J.H., 93, 98, 102, 127, 133, 141, Phillips, Siân, 177 165, 193 Phipps, Diana (DPh), 60, 88, 92, 97, Plummer, Christopher, 208 102–3, 105, 112, 114–15, 117–23, Polanski, Roman, 23 125–6, 130, 132–8, 141, 143, The Pianist, 277 147–9, 151–3, 155–6, 158–62, Poliakoff, Stephen 164–5, 167–70, 173–4, 176–9, 182, American Days, 90; Clever Soldiers, 57 184–7, 189–90, 194, 196, 200, 207, Porter, Cole 240, 250, 263, 271, 279, 285, 292, Anything Goes, 278 294, 318 Porter, David, 130 Phipps, Alexandra, 99 Posner, Lindsay, 283, 285, 294, 296, Picasso, Pablo, 274 298 Pilger, John, 212, 251 Potter, Dennis, 215 Death of a Nation, 209 Message for Posterity, 215 Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing Powell, Anthony, 106, 136, 258 The Magistrate, 33; Second Mrs and Violet, 155, 163, 173, 233, Tanqueray,113 244 Pinnock, Winsome Powell, Dilys, 137 Leave Taking, 216 Powell, Robert, 110 Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto, 246–7 Powell, Tristram, 97 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Powell, Lady Violet (née Pakenham), 64; Rea, Stephen, 239 see also Powell, Anthony Read, Herbert, 178, 320 Powell-Jones, Robert, 96, 313; see also Redden, Nigel, 250, 259, 264 Fraser, Flora Redgrave, Corin, 266, 269 Powell-Jones, Stella, 303 Redgrave, Kiki, 269 Prentice, Penelope, 95, 135, 145, 206, Redgrave, Lynn, 24 208, 236, 248, 257, 259, 262, 269 Redgrave, Sir Michael, 85, 126, 140, 230, Priestley, J.B. 237 Dangerous Corner, 217; An Inspector Redgrave, Vanessa, 39, 133, 164, 244 Calls, 77, 216; When We Are Married, Redgrove, Peter, 28 95, 148 Reeve, James, 59 Proust, Marcel, 48, 224, 308 Reisz, Betsy, xii, 278–83, 285–94, 296, À la recherche du temps perdu, 45, 263; 299 Time Regained, 255 Reisz, Karel (KR), xii, 52–5, 84–93, Pryce, Jonathan, 98 95–101, 103–4, 106, 112, 118, 120, Hamlet, 98 127, 129, 145–7, 149–59, 161, 163, Puccini, Giacomo 175–6, 186, 189, 192, 201, 209, La Bohème, 218; Madame Butterfly, 211–12, 216, 220, 222, 224, 227–8, 162, 170, 280; Manon Lescaut, 123; 233–5, 239, 243–4, 247–8, 270, 274, Tosca, 155 277, 282, 318–20 Pudney, Gary, 155 The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 52, Pugh, Marshall, 17 84, 85, 319; and Betsy (KRs), 55, Purser, Philip, 12 85–93, 95–6, 99–113, 115–18, 120, Pushkin, Alexander, 254 122, 124, 126–7, 129, 132, 140–3, 146–67, 169, 172–205, 207–21, Quaranta, Gianni, 236 223–37, 239–76 Quayle, Sir Anthony, 76, 81 Rhys, Jean, 121 Quayle, Jenny, 105, 130 Richardson, Ian, 188 Quennell, Peter, 118 Richardson, Sir Ralph (RR), 48, 58–9, 78, Quick, Diana, 132–3 87, 127, 213, 314, 320 Quigley, Austin E., 231 No Man’s Land, 57–9, 62, 65, 320 Richardson, Tony, 145, 307 Rabe, David Hamlet, 32 Hurlyburly, 135 Richenthal, David, 263 Rabihavi, Ghazi Richter, Falk, 233 Look Europe, 238 Rickman, Alan and Katharine Viner Raine, Craig, 198 My Name is , 295 1953, 225; Areté, 304 Rickson, Ian, 240, 246, 259, 276, 282, Raine, Nina, 254 293, 304 Rakoff, Alvin Krapp’s Last Tape, 299–300 The Room, 13 Riddell, Mary, 254 Ramírez, Sergio, 191 Rigby, Terence, 19, 31, 46, 117, 290 Rampling, Charlotte, 56, 107 Rigg, Dame Diana, 124 Rand, Tom, 247 Robards, Jason, 208 The Hothouse, 224; Taking Sides, 219, 224 Robinson, David, 300 Rattigan, Sir Terence, 11, 28 Robson, Bryan, 64, 214 The Browning Version, 98; The Deep Roche, Billy Blue Sea, 201; Man and Boy, 293; Belfry, 193 Separate Tables, 204 Roeg, Nicolas Raymond, Emily, 202 Eureka, 123; Lolita, 186 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Rogers, Paul, 27 Saaz, Johannes von Rose, Charlie, 208 Death and the Ploughman, 277 Rose, Reginald, 220, 222, 225–7 Sackler, Howard Twelve Angry Men, 218 The Great White Hope, 159 Rosenthal, Tom, 234, 236, 239 Sacks, Oliver (OS), 112, 119, 121, 128, Ross, Alan, 32, 193, 238, 269 135, 178, 320 Ross, Duncan Awakenings, 111, 320 The Room, 8 Salem, Daniel, 33 Rossini, Gioachino Salles, Walter La Cenerentola, 264; Mose in Egitto, 212 Central Station, 251 Rostropovich, Mstislav, 176 Sampson, Anthony, 293 Rota, Julian, 290, 296–9 Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 217, 222 Roth, Joanna, 202 Sartre, Jean-Paul Roth, Philip (PR), 70, 77, 80, 86–8, 90, No Exit (Huis Clos), 19 95, 97–8, 102, 104, 106, 112–13, Saunders, James 116, 121, 124, 128–9, 131, 134–5, Bodies, 80; Fall, 134; Sancho Panza, 34 137–8, 140, 147–8, 152, 154–5, 172, Saunders, Kate, 221 309, 320 Saville, Philip, 156 Roth, Tim, 238, 255–6 A Night Out, 11 Rothenstein, Julian, 93 Sawyer, Diane, 178 Rothschild, Liliane de, Baroness, 260 Scales, Prunella, 105, 112, 165 Rothschild, Victoria (VR), 108, 181–2, Schama, Simon, 248–9 233, 236, 258, 262, 281–2, 289, 315, Schatzberg, Jerry (JS), 154, 157–60, 164, 320; see also Gray, Simon 166, 170, 234, 321 Round, Richard, 41 Reunion, 154, 321 Rowohlt, Ludwig, 27, 97, 132, 165 Schell, Maximilian, 47 Rozema, Patricia, 245, 252 Schiff, Stephen, 181–3 Rozental, Andrés and Vivian, 223, 228 Schiller, Friedrich von Rubens, Berenice, 179 Don Carlos, 293; Mary Stuart, 226 Ruders, Poul Schlesinger, Arthur, 70 The Handmaid’s Tale, 281 Schlesinger, John, 32, 61, 73, 103, 133, Rudkin, David 143, 146, 168, 170–2 The Fifth Hunt, 50 Heartbreak House, 59 Rudman, Michael, 100, 104, 113 Schlöndorff, Volker, 175–6 Short List, 122 Circle of Deceit, 115; The Handmaid’s Rushdie, Sir Salman (SR), 114, 116, Tale, 166, 174, 184 156, 163, 166, 171, 173–4, 178–84, Schmidt, Lars, 42 188, 192, 194, 196, 201, 204, 206, Schneider, Alan (AS), 15, 24, 38, 41, 75, 215, 219–20, 236, 255, 257, 260–1, 120, 124, 129, 132, 321 264, 273–4, 281–2, 285, 288, Birthday Party, 26; The Lover, 17; 295–6, 320 Victoria Station, 131 and partner/wife (SRs), 114, 157, Schrader, Paul, 173, 175, 247 161–2, 170, 175, 178, 185–6, The Comfort of Strangers, 173–4, 183 189–95, 198–200, 202, 205–7, Schufranek, Franz, 152 209–11, 214–17, 219, 221, 223, 225, Scorsese, Martin, 104 228, 230, 232, 237, 240–1, 243, Scruton, Roger, 75, 88, 94, 96 262, 274, 278, 292–3, 299; see also Seale, Patrick Lakshmi, Padma; West, Elizabeth; and Rana, 155, 185, 202, 207, 212, Wiggins, Marianne 217, 247, 255, 262, 280, 284, 291, Russell, Leonard, 12 294 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Seale, Rana, 204, 211, 265, 269, 271, The Man in the Glass Booth, 26, 319, 276, 283 321 Seaver, Richard and Jeanette, 110, 148, Shawcross, William, 159 155, 182, 256–7, 279 Shawn, Wallace, 251 Seifert, Michael, 266 Aunt Dan and Lemon, 144, 251; Sereny, Gitta The Designated Mourner, 227 Albert Speer, 225 Shepard, Sam, 99, 135–6, 160 Servadio, Gaia, 174, 205, 221 Sher, Sir Antony Sewell, Stephen Primo, 292 Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Shergold, Judith, 104, 313 Germany and Contemporary America, Sherman, Martin 292 Messiah, 120 Sexton, David, 218 Sherman, Robert Shaffer, Peter, 24, 77, 94 Missing in Action, 237 Amadeus, 93 Sherriff, R.C. Shakespeare, William, 14, 36, 205, 314 Journey’s End, 47, 286 All’s Well The Ends Well, 117; Antony Sherrin, Ned and Cleopatra, 157; As You Like It, The Mitford Girls, 109 125, 296; Collected Shakespeare, Sherwood, John, 10 2; , 82, 138, 169, 283; Shivas, Mark, 176 Hamlet, 30, 32, 40, 64, 98, 218, Shostakovich, Dmitri 260, 288, 303, 314; 1 Henry IV, 66, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, 158, 189, 287 116, 156; 2 Henry IV, 66; Henry V, Shulman, Milton, 103, 181 66, 156; Henry VI, 175; Henry VIII, Sigarev, Vassily 5; , 72, 272; , Black Milk, 279 173; King Lear, 74, 117, 122, 154, Silvers, Robert B., 149, 267 172, 235, 238, 255–7, 293; Macbeth, Simó, Ramon, 232 2, 3, 26, 76, 157, 159; Measure for Sinclair, Ian, 219, 236–7, 244, 252, 265 Measure, 52; Merchant of Venice, Sisson, Charles, 194 5, 6, 37, 173; Midsummer Night’s Smith, Ian, 195, 197, 202, 208, 214, 231, Dream, 43, 107, 121, 220; Much Ado 233, 235, 239, 246, 252, 256, 263, About Nothing, 75, 275; , 238; 265, 268, 276, 293–5 Richard II, 33, 157, 263, 314; Richard Smith, Martin, 296 III, 96, 172; Romeo and Juliet, 2, 4, Smith, R.D., 64 27; Sonnets, 165; The Tempest, 53, Henry VII, 5 98, 286; Timon of Athens, 187–8; Smith, Reggie, 213 Troilus and Cressida, 31, 72, 250; Snell, Andrew, 81, 167 Twelfth Night, 6, 32; Winter’s Tale, Snell, Peter 31, 151 Turtle Diaries, 139 Shallcross, Alan, 98 Snowdon, Lord (Antony Armstrong- Sharansky, Natan, 152 Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon), 181, Sharon, Nomi 221 On the Road to Jerusalem, 174 Sobol, Joshua Sharp, Robert, 314 Ghetto, 172 Shaw, George Bernard Sondheim, Stephen Heartbreak House, 59, 238; Mrs Warren’s A Little Night Music, 177 Profession, 276; The Philanderer, 84; Sontag, Susan Too True to Be Good, 64 Duet for Cannibals, 34 Shaw, Robert (RS), 19–20, 22–5, 27, 29, 33, Sophocles 35, 44, 56, 59, 74, 83, 85, 122, 321 Electra, 239 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Soros, Daisy, 241 45; New-Found-Land, 67; Night Soros, George, 227, 235 and Day, 86, 109; On the Razzle, Soros, Peter, 232–4, 239–42, 244, 246, 109; Professional Foul, 76; The 248–9, 251, 255–7, 259, 261, 265–7, Real Inspector Hound, 49; The Real 270, 273, 276, 278, 296, 313 Thing, 119, 129, 251; Rosencrantz Soustras, Marc, 242 and Guildenstern Are Dead, 25, 73, Spark, Dame Muriel 182, 189; Squaring the Circle, 132; Memento Mori, 195 Travesties, 54; Undiscovered Country, Spencer, Sir Stanley, 264 90; Voyage, 274; and André Previn, Spender, Natasha, 279, 286 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 82; Spender, Sir Stephen, 77, 94, 163, 165, and Miriam (TSs), 63–4, 66–7, 72–4, 177–8, 210, 217–18, 221, 226, 288 79, 84, 89, 92, 96, 100, 106, 322 and Natasha, 147, 187, 214 Stoppi, Maurice, 121, 124, 135, 204, 292 Spiegel, Sam (SS), 25, 32, 52–5, 57–62, Storey, David 71–2, 76, 79–82, 89–91, 94, 96–7, In Celebration, 30; The Changing Room, 99–105, 107, 109–10, 112–18, 45; The Contractor, 33; Early Days, 122–4, 126, 128, 131–41, 144, 103; Home, 37, 213; Life Class, 54; 146–8, 317, 321 The March on Russia, 172 Betrayal, 95, 117, 121; The Last Tycoon, Strachan, Geoffrey, 184 51, 53–4, 57–9 Strauss, Johann Stanford, Alan, 232 Die Fledermaus, 95, 170 The Collection, 234 Strauss, Richard Stanford, Peter, 201 Arabella, 110; Ariadne auf Naxos, Stanton, Barbara (Barbara Condos), 118, 199; Capriccio, 186; Der 29–30 Rosenkavalier, 64, 137, 210, 257; Starr, Nick, 214, 257 Elektra, 235; Salome, 64, 228 Stefanidis, John, 182 Stravinsky, Igor, 161 Steinbeck, John Streep, Meryl, 95–6, 98–100, 129, 134, 198 Of Mice and Men, 137 Reunion, 187 Steiner, George Stride, John, 84 The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H., Strindberg, August 113 The Dance of Death, 25, 28; Miss Julie, Sternberg, Tom, 282–6 158 Sleuth, 279, 281 Strong, Sir Roy, 287, 296 Stertz, Peter, 161 and Julia Trevelyan Oman, 207, 211, Stevens, Peter, 59, 72 216, 221, 235, 251, 266, 273 Stevens, Roger (RSt), 9, 42, 47, 49, 55, Stuart-Smith, Stephen, 276 57, 71, 82, 89, 91, 93–4, 136, 138, Stuhr, Jerzy, 234 321–2 Suchet, David, 202–3, 208, 293 Betrayal, 87 Summers, Sue, 158, 167–8 Stewart, Sir Patrick, 282–3 Supple, Barry, 263 Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 53 Macbeth, 3 Stone, Bernard, 86 Sutton, David, 136, 311 Stoppard, Sir Tom (TS), 71, 82, 84, 87, Swannell, Graham 105, 124, 134, 158, 196, 203, 225, A State of Affairs, 139 238, 253, 256, 261, 264, 274, 282, Sylvester, David, 185–7 296, 301, 311, 322 Synge, John Millington After Magritte, 49; , 203; Dirty The Playboy of the World, 215 Linen, 67; Enigma, 268; Hapgood, Szabó, István 163; Invention of Love, 248; Jumpers, The Trial, 188 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Taborski, Boleslaw, 136 Turgenev, Ivan Taylor, A.J.P., 63 A Month in the Country, 20, 105, 160, Taylor, C.P. 211 Good, 115 Turow, Scott, 183 Taylor, John Russell, 22, 38, 143 Tushingham, Rita, 26 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tutin, Dame Dorothy, 42, 116, 137, 160 Eugene Onegin, 67, 213; Queen of Old Times, 41 Spades, 265 Tydeman, John, 102 Teale, Polly Family Voices, 104 After Mrs Rochester, 281 Tynan, Kathleen, 28, 160 Tennant, Colin (3rd Baron Glenconner), Tynan, Kenneth, 12, 23, 25 103 Tennant, Emma, 60, 64, 81, 87, 96, Uchida, Dame Mitsuko, 94, 112, 116, 98–9, 106, 117, 125, 134, 202, 210, 119, 144, 182, 184, 193, 248, 250, 224, 250, 261 252, 254–60, 262–75, 277–8, 280–1, Tenneson, Joyce, 199 283–5, 287, 290, 292–3, 297–8, 302; Tennyson, Hallam, 11 see also Cooper, Sir Robert Terson, Peter Uhlman, Fred, 321 Zigger Zagger, 48 Ullmann, Liv, 135, 139, 145 Thatcher, Margaret, Baroness, 89, 164 Urban, Stuart, 250 Thomas, David, 247 Urbánek, Zdenek, 173, 182 Thomas, Hugh, Baron, 130, 147, 207, Ure, Mary, 27, 44, 59, 321 217, 228–9, 232, 237, 239–40, 248, 252–4, 259, 263, 265, 269, 272–4, Vaesen, Guy (GV), 21, 35, 37–8, 45–7, 278, 280, 284–9, 294, 296, 298 49, 57, 60, 62, 64, 67, 72, 75, 77, Thomas, Vanessa, 130 82, 88, 94, 99, 101–2, 104, 110, 114, Thompson, Ada see Merchant, Vivien 119, 122–3, 127, 130, 137, 147, 151, Thompson, Brian 159, 163, 173, 179, 192, 207, 215, Turning Over, 129 222, 225, 230–1, 322 Thompson, Emma, 282 The Dwarfs, 16, 322; Landscape, Wit, 260 28, 322; The Lover, 16, 33, 322; Thompson, Francis monologue, 63; Night School, 22; The ‘At Lord’s’, 303 Servant, 39 Thompson, Harry, 12 Van Gelder, Lawrence, 174 Tippett, Sir Michael Vanunu, Mordechai, 177, 185–6, 191, The Knot Garden, 39 193, 197, 201, 213, 215, 217, 219, Toledo, Francisco, 258 230, 233, 242, 276 Topolski, Feliks, 33, 40 Verdi, Giuseppe and Marian, 33 Don Carlos, 172, 196, 228; Falstaff, Toynbee, Polly, 183–4 168, 239, 255; Luisa Miller, 281; Travers, Ben Macbeth, 274; Nabucco, 262; Otello, Plunder, 65 121, 127, 150; Requiem, 86, 180, Trevis, Di, 233, 241, 247–9, 257, 260, 264; The Sicilian Vespers, 132; Simon 263–4, 282 Boccanegra, 193, 236; La Traviata, À la recherche du temps perdu, 263 127, 216, 278; Il Trovatore, 112 Trevor, Elleston Verneuil, Louis The Berlin Memorandum, 18 Affairs of State, 6 Trollope, Anthony, 195 Vidal, Gore, 65, 161, 175 Trussler, Simon, 152 Visconti, Luchino, 50–1 Tucci, Maria, 94 Death in Venice, 41; The Leopard, 281 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Wagner, Richard, 310 101, 103–7, 113, 116–18, 121–2, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 207; Die 124, 126, 128–30, 132, 134, 139, Walküre, 176; Götterdämmerung, 186; 142, 147–8, 151–2, 156–7, 159–62, Lohengrin, 233; Tristan and Isolde, 164, 168–71, 175–6, 181, 190, 196, 108, 226 199, 205–6, 211, 216, 220, 226, 230, Wain, John, 12 238, 240, 246, 253–5, 265, 269, 275, Wainwright, Hilary, 196, 220, 227, 240, 283, 313, 323 264 and Annabelle (GWs), 109, 155, 235, Waldegrave, William, Baron (Wa), 128, 293, 295, 298 139, 147, 179, 322 Weill, Kurt and Caroline (Was), 119–21, 123, Street Scene, 177 125–7, 130–3, 139, 141–5, 148, 150, Weinstein, Henry T., 56, 60 155, 181, 189, 207, 219, 241, 251, The Homecoming, 52 256, 263, 279, 288, 296, 322 Weissberger, Arnold, 24, 31, 43, 48, 95 Wall, Max Weldon, Duncan, 137–8, 181, 214, 216, Krapp’s Last Tape, 64 218, 220, 223, 233, 244, 283, 285, 293 Walsh, John, 249, 268 Old Times, 219 Ward, Nick Wellard, Arthur, 72, 91, 106, 108, 140, The Strangeness of Others, 165 301 Wardle, Irving, 70, 75, 80 Weller, Michael Waring, Derek, 41 Loose Ends, 109 Wark, Kirsty, 300 Welles, Orson Warner, Dr Francis, 31, 64, 84, 275 Citizen Kane, 47 Warner, Sir Frederick, 65–6, 146, 166, Wells, John, 60, 63, 87, 217, 240, 243 225, 322 Anyone for Denis?, 107; The Marriage and Simone, 65–6, 186, 322 of Figaro, 55; with Teresa, 99, 125, Warner, Marina, 159, 167 150, 173 Warner, Simone, 194, 222, 224–5, 227, Wernick, Morris (Moishe) (MW), 24, 99, 232–4, 237, 239–40, 243, 250–2, 106, 133–4, 160, 175, 206, 230, 236, 256, 259, 263, 277, 280–2, 322 252, 256, 269, 310, 323 Wasserstein, Wendy, 208 Wertenbaker, Timberlake Watson, James Campbell-Saunders, 198 After Darwin, 245; Break of Day, 224; Waugh, Alec, 83 Our Country’s Good, 177; Three Birds Wax, Emanuel (Jimmy) (JW), 8–9, 24–7, Alighting on a Field, 191 30, 32, 35–40, 42–9, 52, 54–8, 60, Wesker, Sir Arnold, 63, 147, 149 62–3, 65–84, 86–8, 99–108, 110–14, The Kitchen, 210 118–21, 123, 131, 158, 311, 322–3 West, Elizabeth, 166, 201, 320; see also Landscape, 28; Mac, 28 Rushdie, Sir Salman Wax, Thelma, 44, 124–5, 127–8, 130, West, Dame Rebecca, 73, 77, 82, 86, 122 132–4, 136, 138, 140, 145–7, 155, West, Timothy, 38, 110, 193 157–8, 164, 190, 196, 202, 214, 222, Whelan, Peter 227, 245, 253, 258, 265, 277, 290 The Herbal Bed, 235 Webster, John Whitehead, E.A. Duchess of Malfi, 90, 105, 143; The The Man Who Fell in Love With His White Devil, 34, 68 Wife, 130 Webster, O., 11 Whitelaw, Billie Wedekind, Franz Rockaby, 120 , 56 Whitemore, Hugh, 72, 193–6, 199, 201, Weidenfeld, George, Baron (GW), 61–2, 204, 217, 227, 229, 232, 249, 264, 64, 70–1, 74, 82, 84–6, 89, 91–2, 274, 276–9, 281 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Breaking the Code, 223; It’s Ralph, 193; Winder, Robert, 266 Pack of Lies, 127 Winkler, Byron Whiting, John, 31, 86 Affairs of State, 6 Saint’s Day, 277 Winterkorn, Joan, 202 Wiggins, Marianne, 162, 320; see also Winton, Nan, 17 Rushdie, Sir Salman Wintour, Charles, 255 Wilcher, Robert, 219 Wolf, Christa, 196 Wilde, Oscar, 218 Wolfe, Tom, 71 Importance of Being Earnest, 5, 118; Lady Wolfit, Sir Donald, 6, 28, 205, 211, 316 Windermere’s Fan, 214; Salome, 176 Wood, Dinah, 286, 293, 296, 298–9 Wildman, Carl, 13 Wood, John, 38 Wilkinson, Alan, 240, 271 Wood, Peter The Catch, 271 Birthday Party, 8 Wilkinson, Anne, 278 Wood, Victoria, 80 Willes, Peter (PW), 16, 24, 27, 29, 323 Woodthorpe, Peter, 11 The Birthday Party, 323; The Hothouse, Woodward, Joanne, 130 24, 30, 33, 36, 41, 43, 62–7, 69–78, Woolf, Cecil 80–4, 87, 94, 100, 102, 106, 110–12, Authors Take Sides on Vietnam, 28 114–15, 117, 119–20, 123–4, 132, Woolf, Henry (HW), 2, 310, 315, 323–4 136, 140, 142–3, 146, 154, 157, Celebration, 257; The Homecoming, 23; 159–61, 164, 166, 168, 172, 192, The Hothouse, 98; monologue, 50–1, 194, 291, 323 271, 301, 324; Night, 51; The Room, Williams, Emlyn, 48 8, 257, 301, 323 Williams, Heathcote (HWi), 20, 73, 78, Woolf, Virginia 81–3, 93, 99, 154, 170, 200, 323 A Room with a View, 149 AC/DC, 36; The Local Stigmatic, 20, Woolford, Gordon, 10 160, 323 Worcester, Tracy, 198 Williams, Major and Mrs, 1 Wright, Nicholas Williams, Nigel, 180, 264, 276 Custom of the Country, 128; The Desert Class Enemy, 80; Line ’Em, 101; and Air, 143; Mrs Klein, 168; Vincent in Suzanne, 278 Brixton, 275 Williams, Rod Wyndham, Francis (FWy), 64, 75, 85, No Remission, 198 88, 98, 107, 113, 135, 137–8, 141, Williams, Tennessee, 44, 111, 145 153, 155, 157, 160, 163, 164, 171, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 268; Not About 185, 194, 202, 204, 210, 213, 216– Nightingales, 242; The Rose Tattoo, 17, 224, 228–9, 242, 247, 260, 265, 190; A Streetcar Named Desire, 64; 279, 281, 284, 289, 292, 297, 324 Sweet Bird of Youth, 139 Wyndham-Davies, June Williamson, David Heat of the Day, 161 The Perfectionist, 125 Wilson, Sir Angus, x, 72, 91, 99, 114, Yang, William 117–18, 124–5, 141, 145, 191, 196 Shadows, 249 Wilson, Daniel, 154–5, 208 Yeats, William Butler The Handmaid’s Tale, 154, 177 The Cat and the Moon, 111; King of the Wilson, Harold, Baron, 66 Great Clock Tower, 111 Wilson, Lambert, 236 Yentob, Alan, 191 Wilson, Lanford Burn This, 161 Ziegler, Philip, 176, 275 Wilton, Penelope, 93, 110, 208, 234, Zimmermann, Bernd Alois 278, 303 Die Soldaten, 232 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Alvediston, Wiltshire, 91 Overseas Service, 10–12, 18, 152 America/American, 13, 16, 18–19, 26, Play of the Week, 84 49, 51, 76, 93, 94, 109, 145, 189, productions room, 104 196, 245, 260, 278, 292, 309, 312, Third Programme, 5, 10–17, 22–3, 26, 316–21 28, 310, 322 Embassy, Haiti, 71 Turkish Service, 143 Embassy, Istanbul, 140 TV, 12–16, 18, 25, 50, 56, 99, 101, Embassy, London, 78, 117, 136 119, 154, 170, 247, 281, 292, 312, Ampleforth, 191, 229 318 Amsterdam, 19, 55, 117, 137, 165, 184, TV Centre, 48, 105, 113 199, 211, 227, 236 World Service, 20, 64, 231, 279, 291 Antwerp, 169 BBC2, 19, 21, 24, 29–30, 33, 35, 50, Argentina, 16, 115 63–4, 69, 76, 101, 105, 114, 121, Buenos Aires, 16 128, 131, 135, 142–3, 158, 169, Arts Council, 19–21, 34, 194, 219 173, 192, 206, 208, 223, 233, 251, Associated Rediffusion, 323 256, 276, 295, 307 Australia, 47–8, 73–4, 78, 100, 108, 173, BBC4, 275–6, 279, 281 236, 272 BBC Radio, 14, 63, 71, 74, 194, 201, Austria, 51, 58, 75 210, 241, 276, 284, 307, 314, 322 Austrian Embassy, 246 Radio 3, 32–3, 50, 64, 69, 104, 140, Vienna, 155–6, 246, 323 182–3, 191, 224, 230, 241, 248, Burgtheater, 47, 89 257, 261, 309, 314 English Theatre, 152, 308 Radio 4, 13, 17, 33, 35, 38–9, 42, 50, University of Vienna, 312, 321, 323 143, 242, 256, 261, 309 , 13, 133, 166, 312 Barnes Studios, 39 Bear Hotel, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Bath, 92, 138, 140–1, 180, 185, 189, 102 205, 220, 222, 236, 244, 250–1, Birmingham, 27, 54, 135, 142, 150, 184, 282, 294 188, 249, 288, 294 Theatre Royal, 244 Alexandra Theatre, 184 BBC, 5, 9, 19–22, 28, 32, 35–7, 39–40, Birmingham Repertory, 73, 206–7 49–50, 60, 63, 65–6, 94, 96–8, Birmingham University, 43 100–1, 103–4, 106–7, 113, 115–16, Bristol, 8, 89, 225–6, 239, 242, 283, 324 122, 128, 132, 134, 142–4, 150, Bristol University, 8, 245, 323 153, 165–9, 171, 174, 178, 184–5, Old Vic, 225, 283 187, 193, 202, 210–11, 213, 218, Old Vic Theatre School, 8 224, 235, 241, 246, 249, 255, 259, Thornbury Festival, 89 261, 267–8, 275–6, 278, 285, 287, British, 12, 14, 18, 21, 36, 97, 109, 112, 289, 300, 307–9, 312, 317, 322–3 119, 129, 161, 183, 202, 206, 256, European Service, 10, 312 303, 309, 314, 320, 322 Home Service, 9, 11–12, 14, 16, 18, 23 , 73 Light Programme, 4–5, 12 British Embassy, Washington, 71 Network Three, 13 British Academy of Film and Television News, 147 Arts (BAFTA), 46, 66, 97, 123, 143,

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150, 157, 164, 165, 182, 186, 195, St Ives, 105 200, 209, 211, 215, 243, 245, 254, Tragenna Castle Hotel, St Ives, 105 284 Crete, 60 (BFI), 126, 131 Croatia, 64, 66 British Library (BL), 198, 308 Dubrovnik, 67 British Museum, 205, 262 Cuba, 207, 215, 227, 253 Brussels, 173, 312 Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, 93, 250, Budapest, 312 259, 261, 318–19 Bulgaria, 163 Hrácˇdecek, 173 Sofia, 219 Moravia, 173 Sofia University, 219 Prague, 173, 178, 195–7, 244, 246, Buscot, Oxfordshire, 62 298, 319 Balustrade Theatre, 178 Cambridge, 18, 27, 78, 93, 106, 128, Cathedral, 178 149, 155, 164, 250, 252, 282, Wenceslas Square, 178 294–5 Writers’ Festival, 250 Arts Theatre, 9, 22, 226, 281, 285, 291 Cambridge University Arms, 42 Denmark, 20 Cambridge University Press, 269 Dorset, 68, 72, 84, 98, 118, 165, 203, Christ’s College, 93, 316 228, 263, 301 Emmanuel College, 319 Bournemouth, 20 Girton College, 310 Barry O’Brien Company, The Palace King’s College, 315, 320 Court, 7 Newnham College, 307 Palace Court Theatre, 322 St Catharine’s College, 315, 322 Registry Office, 8 St John’s College, 310 Lyme Regis, 84–5, 98 Trinity College, 315 Westbrook House, nr. Weymouth, Cambridgeshire, 132 300, 303 , 315, 323–4 Montreal, 175, 323 East Anglia, 148 Toronto, 24, 44, 71, 109, 172, 175, East Coker, 68, 93 269 Elstree, 37 Harbourfront Festival, 269 England, 1, 21, 31–2, 37–8, 47–8, 68, 74, Royal Alexandra Theatre, 69 100, 108–9, 116, 118, 125, 150, University of Toronto, 24, 44 165–6, 173, 181, 189–90, 213, , 309 220, 236, 308, 317, 319, 321–2 Central America, 155, 217 Entebbe, 68 Chile, 50, 92, 151, 196 Eton, 83, 322–4 China, 259, 300 Europe, 3 Hong Kong, 58 Exeter, 27 Shanghai, 157 Colchester Repertory Company, 6 Falkland Islands, 115, 164 Corby, Northants, 21 France, 32, 308 Corfu, 91, 174, 183, 191, 198 British Embassy, 242 Cornwall Cannes, 24, 42, 47, 173 Abbey Hotel, Penzance, 245, 260, 283 Cannes Film Festival, 42 Caerhays, 1, 121, 214 Cap Estel, 205, 214 Caerhays Castle, 105 Cap Ferrat, 74 Mevagissey, 1, 214 Château de Maintenon, 280 Penzance, 105, 205, 237, 260, 323 Fontainebleau, 242 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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France – continued Hayling Island, 315 Monte Carlo, 32 Pylewell, 190, 204, 228, 213, 221 Nice, 57, 76 of , 235 Paris, 22–3, 27–8, 32–4, 37, 43–4, 46, Helsinki, 27 48, 60, 63, 65, 70, 73, 92, 112–13, Huddersfield Repertory Company, 6 115, 130, 136, 156, 160, 170, 194, Hull, 150 210, 235, 237–8, 241, 243, 253–5, University of, 150 262–3, 269, 280, 284, 291, 294, University Congregation, 228 297, 300, 308, 310 Hotel Lancaster, 60, 92 Ilkley Literary Festival, 213 Hôtel Meurice, 119 India, 116, 124, 150, 320 Théâtre du Rond-Point, 239, 242 Calcutta, 58 Théâtre de L’Atelier, 210 Delhi, 58 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 319 Mumbai, 320 St Tropez, 76 Inkpen, Berkshire, 137–8, 143, 151, 166, Versailles, 242, 280 170, 185 Iraq, 241, 243, 250, 258, 275–6, 278–9, Germany, 2, 36, 47, 58, 64, 75–6, 147, 284, 286–7, 290 270, 310, 312, 318 Ireland, 5, 21, 75, 82, 258, 313 Berlin, 18, 20, 34, 65, 92, 157, 270 Dublin, 34, 41, 48–9, 93, 182, 206, Berlin Film Festival, 16 211–12, 235, 257, 265–6, 289, Brandenburg Gate, 178 297, 303, 314 East Berlin Film Festival, 178 Airport, 298 Schiller Theater, 15, 64 Bloom’s Hotel, 43 Düsseldorf, Schauspielhaus, 76 British Embassy, 289 Frankfurt am Main, 9 Gate Theatre, 13, 211, 234, 303, Hamburg, 34, 36, 64–5, 92 308, 314, 317 University of Hamburg, 36 National University of Ireland, 289 Mainz, 58 Olympia Theatre, 93 Munich, 32, 174 Pinter Festival, 92, 210, 234, 297 Stuttgart, 147, 159, 321 Shelbourne Hotel, 206 Gloucestershire Trinity College, 308 Cheltenham, 215, 230, 254, 320 Writers’ Festival, 289, 320 Cheltenham Festival, 22, 167, 230, Foxrock, Co. Dublin, 308 254, 284 Galway, 74 Holcombe, 176 Tullynally Castle, Co. Westmeath, 74 Greece, 29, 257, 317 Islands of Aran, Moher Cliffs, 28 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Israel, 35, 68, 81, 169, 302, 319 257 Jerusalem, 81, 118, 216 Athens, 29, 187–8, 238, 261 Jerusalem Festival, 308 Paxos, 159, 166 Tel Aviv, 19 Guatemala, 181, 191, 199, 226, 244, 254 Istanbul, Turkey, 140 Foreign Office, 181 Italy, 14, 16, 83, 116, 236, 238–9, 241 Ischia, 108 Haiti, 71 Milan, 260, 287 Olafson Hotel, 71 Palermo Festival, 239, 261 Hampshire, 64, 192 Rome, 44, 116, 175, 206, 218, 254 Chewton Glen, 192, 195, 198, 200, British Embassy, 218 207, 216, 220, 247, 265, 277, 290, Teatro di Roma, 50 292, 295, 301 Torcello, 90 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Turin, 233, 239, 241, 277, 299, 317 Battersea Public Reserve Library, 308 University of Florence, 268 Bayswater, 58 Venice, 16, 41, 89–90, 101, 140, 148, Blackheath, 85 170, 227, 239, 261 Boys’ Mission Hall, Inns of Court, 57 Venice Film Festival, 16 Broadcasting House, 83 Iver, Bucks, 62, 71, 80, 83, 89, 120 Buckingham Palace, 23, 179, 213, 254, 264, 277 Keele University, 312 Camden Plaza (cinema), 117 Kent, 89, 126 Camden Town, 102 Hever Castle, 182 Campden Hill Square, London W8 Sissinghurst, 66, 75 (No. 52), 75, 89, 101, 165 Korea, 60, 205 Central Library, Bermondsey, 308 Central School of Speech and Drama, Laverstock, Wiltshire, 89, 98 5, 303, 309, 313 Leeds, 32, 76, 209 Charing Cross Road, 2 , 301 Chelsea, 52, 133, 151, 171, 298 Leicester, 101 Chelsea Arts Club, 119, 257 , 18 Chelsea Old Town Hall, 106 London, 1, 5, 9, 14, 16, 18–23, 25–7, Chilean Consulate, 151 30–7, 40–1, 43–9, 51, 55, 57–8, Chiswick, 319 62, 65, 67–74, 76, 78, 82–4, Chiswick High Road, London W4 (No. 88–96, 98, 100–2, 107–8, 110–13, 373), 8–9 116–18, 120–1, 123–5, 127, Churchill Hotel, 44, 58, 83, 93, 205 129–32, 135–40, 142–3, 145–7, Clapton Pond, East London, 1, 84 150–1, 154, 156, 159, 161–2, Colet Court School, 99 165, 167, 169–70, 172–8, 182–4, Coliseum, 53, 108, 120–1, 132, 155, 186–9, 191–4, 196–201, 205–6, 162–3, 177–8, 183, 188–9, 191, 208–20, 222–3, 225–8, 230–5, 194, 196, 199, 210–11, 215, 220, 237–42, 245–8, 250, 252–5, 257, 226, 228, 232–3, 239, 246–7, 250, 259–63, 265–70, 273, 275, 277–8, 259, 262, 277, 281, 300 280, 282–4, 286–95, 297–8, 304, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, 22, 308–16, 318–21, 323 236, 263 ABC1 cinema, Shaftsbury Avenue, 67 Covent Garden (Royal Opera House) Academy cinema, 35, 101 (CGa), 39, 41, 63–4, 67, 91, 95, Acton, 50, 117 110, 112, 123–4, 127, 130, 137, Albemarle Street, National Book 149, 158, 160–1, 165, 168, 170, League, 49 172, 176, 179, 184–7, 189–90, Aldwych Hotel, 269 193, 195, 197, 204, 207, 210, 212, Alleyns, 117, 159 216, 218–19, 228, 232–3, 235–6, Ashtead Road, Springhill, Hackney 255–9, 264–5, 269, 272, 274–6, (No. 8), 1 278–81, 283–4, 286–7, 302 Athenaeum, 114, 116 Covent Garden bookshop, 109 Aubrey Road, London W8 (No. 8), 89, Cromwell Hospital, 136, 225, 270, 91, 94, 144 279, 281, 285, 296, 299 Barbican Centre, 52–3, 56, 58, 60, Curzon cinema, 66–7, 105, 126, 128, 114, 116–17, 153, 157, 172, 136, 139, 144, 146, 167–8, 185, 175–6, 184, 238, 253, 268, 272, 189, 216–17, 240 276, 282, 293, 302 Downing Street (No. 10), 33, 41, 241 Barnes Studios, 39 Dramatists Club, 21, 32–3, 35, 44, 52, Battersea Arts Centre, 199, 234–5, 282 119, 131, 133 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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London – continued Islington, 245 Dulwich, 19 Karnac Books, Gloucester Road, 40, Dulwich Art Gallery, 217 42, 60 Ealing Studios, 32 Kensal Green Cemetery, 195 East End, 84, 271 Kensington, 21, 62 Everyman cinema, 48, 171 Kensington Court Gardens (No. 3), Fairmead Court, Taylor Avenue, Kew 152 (No. 6), 11, 15 Kensington Place (restaurant), 163, Finchley, North London, 309 295–6 Flask, Hampstead, 103 Kensington Registry Office, 102 , 21, 80, 84, 134, 181 Kenwood, 106 Gate Three cinema, Camden Town, 102 Kew Gardens, 121, 256 Goldsmiths College, 253, 282 King’s College, 309 Grafton Studio, 22 Launceston Place, South Kensington Granada Television, 13, 70, 78, 84, 177 (No. 33), 62, 65 Grosvenor House, 60–1, 321 Lea Bridge Synagogue, 2, 84 Guildhall, 126 Leicester Square cinemas, 130, 199, Lord Mayor’s Lunch, 84 211 Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Lime Grove Studios, 19 309 Lister Hospital, Chelsea, 151 Gunnersbury, 83 London Academy of Music and Hackney, 2, 225, 239, 323 Dramatic Art (LAMDA), 207 Hackney Boys’ Club, 2, 315 London Weekend Television, 80–1, Hackney Downs Grammar School, 2, 111, 163, 187, 223, 309 302, 310, 323 London Zoo, 125 Hammond House, 3 Lord’s Cricket Ground, 21, 30–2, 37–8, Hackney Empire, 218, 247 47–9, 73–5, 83, 89–90, 108, 116, Harold Pinter Room, 304 124–6, 132, 150, 156, 158, 164–5, Harold Pinter Studio, 304 172–4, 181–2, 189, 212–13, 220, Hackney Public Library, 2 229, 232, 245, 276, 281, 290, Hammersmith Hospital, 303 300–1, 303–4 Hampstead, 103, 229, 238, 306 Maida Vale, West London, 310 Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park, Mayfair, 42 London NW1 (No. 7), 16, 56, 61, Mayfair Hotel, 122 68, 75 National Film Theatre (NFT), 22, 46–7, Harley Street, 44, 52 52, 114, 119, 127, 143–4, 153, Harrods, 118 156, 161, 174, 180, 192, 209, 227, Harrow School, 83 230–1, 237, 251, 279, 284 Heathrow Airport, 19, 35 National Gallery, 228, 252, 264, 294 Highgate, 91, 108 National Portrait Gallery, 175, 198, Holland Park, 273 244, 253, 259, 290, 301 House of Commons, 115, 119, 190, North London, 50 213, 215, 241 Notting Hill Gate, 8, 299 , 52, 105, 152, 170, Odeon, Haymarket, 121, 127, 177, 173, 181, 186–7, 212–13, 246, 255 182 Imperial War Museum, 158, 181, 195, d’Offay Gallery, 117 290 Odeon, Leicester Square, 211 Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Odeon, Marble Arch, 175 36, 61–2, 90, 99, 144, 156, 178, Oval Cricket Ground, 38, 48, 92, 100, 202–3 124, 166, 190 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Poetry Society, 77, 157, 187 Trafalgar Square, 249–50, 291 Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Tudor House, Newington Green, 1 219 TV Centre, 23, 25, 85, 153 Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH), 30, 92, UN London, 171 94, 122, 159, 166–7, 171, 194, University of East London, 216 217, 236, 250, 288 , Queen Mary Purcell Room, 92, 122, 166, 250, College, 156, 200, 295, 315, 320 306 Wardour Street, 53 Ritz, 105, 117, 120–1, 127, 132, 136, No. 86, 160 139, 144, 147, 151, 165, 218, 228 West End, 35, 77, 323 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art West London Synagogue, 148 (RADA), 4, 307, 314 Westbourne Grove, 302 Royal Court Hotel, 67 Westminster, 115, 288, 298 Royal Festival Hall (RFH), 31, 48, 83, Westminster Abbey, 103, 127, 147, 86, 142, 154–5, 169, 180, 199, 176, 190, 218, 280, 296, 306 230, 254, 259, 263, 265, 269 Westminster Cathedral, 279, 283 Royal Lancaster Hotel, Bayswater, 58 Westminster Hall, 276 Royal Marsden Hospital, 273–4, 276, Westminster School, 288 298–9 Wigmore Hall, 32, 56–7, 116, 252, Royal National Hotel, 279 256 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London embassies see London: Covent Garden Chilean Embassy, 206, 289 (Royal Opera House) Cuban Embassy, 27 St Aloysius College, Highgate, 314 Czech Embassy, 193, 198 St John’s Church, 195, 211, 215 French Embassy, 49 St John’s Smith Square, 56 German Embassy, 183, 196, 262 St Martin-in-the-Fields, 226 Irish Embassy, 254 St Martin’s Central School of Arts and Israeli Embassy, 84, 163, 177, 197, Crafts, 312 202, 219, 242 St Paul’s Cathedral, 277 Nicaraguan Embassy, 168 St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, 85, Polish Embassy, 114 158, 200, 284 Russian Embassy, 56 St Paul’s Girls’ School, 241, 254 US Embassy, 151, 155, 162, 166, 207, St Paul’s School, 39, 41, 66, 107, 155, 215 233, 269, 311 London theatres Saville Club, 156, 222 , 163 Scotland Yard, 139 Albery Theatre, 139, 204, 211, 214, Screen on the Hill cinema, 97–8, 128 218, 232, 282, 287, 293–4 Society of Authors, 132–3 (Ald), 14, 17–18, 21, South Kensington, 314 23, 29–32, 36, 40, 42–4, 46, 51, Southall Grammar School, 313 54, 64, 66, 74–5, 82, 85, 92, 99, Stafford Hotel, 58 101–2, 105, 115, 163, 216, 235–7, Stamford Bridge, 52 269, 294, 311 Strand-on-the-Green, 61 Almeida Theatre, 164, 183, 185–6, Syon House, 22, 244 189–92, 194–6, 199–201, 205, Tate Gallery, 195, 228, 264, 274 207–9, 212, 215, 225–6, 228, Thames TV, 34, 77, 81, 182 230–1, 234, 238, 246, 251, 253–6, Theatre Museum, 181 266–7, 284–6, 294, 312, 319 Thistlewaite Rd (No. 19), Hackney, 1, Ambassadors Theatre, 70, 98–100, 305 226, 229–30, 264 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Piccadilly Theatre, 33, 76, 95, 103, The Venue, Leicester Square, 293 165, 177, 215, 250, 296 Warehouse, 102, 110, 134 The Pit (Barbican Centre), 119, 123, Whitehall Theatre, 107, 148, 217 128–9, 138, 143, 153–4, 164, 173, Wyndham’s Theatre, 61, 65, 150, 153, 175, 197, 249, 263 188, 213, 216, 221, 275, 296 Prince of Theatre, 143 Young Vic, 47–9, 73, 124, 128, 147, Queen’s Theatre, 61–2, 84, 92, 97, 157–8, 170, 178, 187, 204, 218, 108, 116, 146 308 Riverside Studios, 84, 148, 164, 167 see also London: Barbican Centre; Roundhouse, 30, 45, 83, 96, 105 Battersea Arts Centre; Hackney Royal Court Theatre (RC), 10, 20, 25, Empire 30, 32–8, 49–50, 52–4, 68, 74, 76–80, 84, 90, 94, 98, 103, 106, Malvern, 294 112, 117, 131, 138, 144, 147, Manchester, 18, 67, 72, 142, 236, 317 152, 156, 158, 160–1, 163, 176, Manchester University, 311 182, 184, 189–94, 196, 198–9, Midland Hotel, 67 204, 207, 210, 217, 219, 224, Royal Exchange Theatre, 76 226–7, 229–30, 238, 241, 245–7, Mexico, 200, 232, 321 256, 258–60, 262–7, 269, 271, British Embassy, 209 275–6, 279, 282, 289–91, 294–5, Mexico City, 209 298, 300 Oaxaca, 209 English Stage Company, 307 Puerto Vallarta, 209, 240 Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, 258, Middlesex County Cricket Club, 311 269 Mortlake Crematorium, 118, 140 Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, 33, 163, 189, 263, 308 New York, 13, 15–18, 24–6, 29–30, 35, Young People’s Theatre, 190 42, 44, 49, 51, 56, 68–71, 93–6, Royalty Theatre, 59 99, 102, 106, 109, 111, 113, 115, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 48, 75 117, 121, 128, 131, 135, 137–8, St Martin’s Theatre, 25–6, 28 157, 160, 169, 172, 176–7, 182, Savoy Theatre, 48 192, 208–9, 211, 222–3, 231, 248, Shaftesbury Theatre, 130, 136, 150 261, 267 Shaw Theatre, 48–9, 57, 66, 162, Albany, 286 276 Broadway, 26, 70, 135, 160, 309, 320 Soho Theatre, 243, 261, 272, 292, Bronx, 321 302 Carlyle Hotel, 74, 117 Strand Theatre, 119 Central Park West, 10023 (No. 135), Theatre Royal Haymarket (Haymarket 19 Theatre), 77, 104, 125, 140–3, Hotel Pierre, 67 175, 177, 227, 239, 248, 275, 291, Kennedy Airport, 24 301, 316 Manhattan, 94 Tower Theatre, Islington, 9, 317 New York Poetry Center, 24 Trafalgar Studios, 301 New York Public Library, 160 Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, 213, 227, New York University, 137 240, 248, 251, 269, 277, 279–80, Park Avenue, 24 284, 291, 295, 318 Park Lane, 94 Tristan Bates Theatre, 217–18, 253, Plaza Hotel, 30 307 Saratoga, 286 , 94, 106, 151, 165, World Trade Center, 268 181, 196, 311 WNDT-TV Channel 13, 25 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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New York City, theatres in, Headington, 102 Bijou Theater, 42 Keble College, 11, 316 Cherry Lane Theatre, 15, 17 Lady Margaret Hall, 233, 313 Coronet Theater, 59th and 3rd Street, Magdalen College, 20, 64, 116, 132 24 Mitre Hotel, 11 Criterion Center Stage Right, 193 New College, 322 Eastside Playhouse, 29 Oxford Playhouse, 41, 43, 69, 80, 286 Forum Theater, Lincoln Center, 35, Queen’s College, 320 320 Randolph Hotel, 41–2, 61 Laura Pels Theatre, 222 St Catherine’s College, 309 Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, 13, 15 St Peter’s College, 322 Manhattan Theatre Club, 131 Wadham College, 309, 315, 317 , 69 Worcester College, 311 Music Box Theatre, 24 Oxted, 116, 142, 150, 157, 206, 214, Playhouse Theatre, 190 244, 259, 266, 282, 289 Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, 161 Repertory Theater, 48 Pinewood, 21, 117, 137–8, 199, 260 Roundabout Theater, 51 Pinewood Studios, 20–2, 33, 135, 137, Shubert Theater, 111 142 Trafalgar Theater, 95 Pinewood Theatre, 198 Writers’ Stage Theater, 18 Poland, 1 New Zealand, 32, 181 Auschwitz, 319 Newcastle upon Tyne, 15, 188 Jaroslav, Galicia, 321 King’s College, University of Durham, Kielce, 300 318 Portugal, 134, 143 Nicaragua/Nicaraguan, 138, 151, 153, Algarve, 100 161–3, 165–6, 170, 176, 178, Lisbon, 106 189–90, 195 Norfolk, 2, 37–8, 46–7, 130 Reading, Berkshire, 2, 118, 128, 245, 319 King’s Lynn, 38, 142, 316 Leighton Park School, 319 Norwich, 44, 118, 194, 209 University of Reading, 38 University of East Anglia, Norwich, University Library, 42, 308 55, 110, 173, 277 Restaurants and pubs Northern Ireland Alcove, 21 Queen’s University, Belfast, 247 l’Altro, 193–6, 198–202, 207, 212, 220 Nottingham, 26, 40–2, 46, 64, 133, 198, L’Artiste Assoiffé, 74 205 Aubois, 91 Nottingham Playhouse, 11 Balzac, 202 La Barca, 78, 80, 84–6, 92–3, 104, 136 Oare, Wiltshire, 115, 146, 161, 164, 166, Belvedere, 61, 100, 106, 110, 112–13, 170, 188, 196, 266 119–20, 123–6, 132–5, 137, Odessa, 1 139–40, 143–4, 146–7, 150–1, Oxford, 21–2, 31, 35, 40, 41–3, 61, 63–4, 155, 157–65, 173–5, 194, 212, 69–70, 72–5, 82, 84, 115, 135–7, 214–15, 242, 250–1, 264, 267, 196, 205, 213, 236, 249, 269, 317, 276, 283, 292, 294 324 Bentley’s, 178, 180–1, 186, 233–4, 243 All Souls College, 128, 197 Blakes, 164 Balliol College, 150, 317 Bloom’s, 93 The Bear, 150 Boulestin, 153 Blackwell’s, 115 Café Anglais, 302 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Café Royal Grill, 64–5, 76, 79, 85, 91, La Galicia, 217 108, 123 Le Gavroche, 64 Le Caprice, 117, 120, 122–8, 131–4, Giovanni’s, 77 136–7, 139–46, 149, 152, 154–7, Granita, 206–7, 256 160–1, 163–5, 169, 176–7, 182, Green’s, 295 184–6, 189–92, 194, 196, 199, Greenhouse, 105–6 202–7, 211–12, 216, 219, 221–3, Grill St Quentin (GSQ), 194, 196, 198, 225–7, 229–31, 234–8, 241, 200–10, 214, 216, 224, 226–7, 243–4, 248, 251, 253–4, 256–9, 232, 293–4 269–70, 272, 275–9, 282–4, 286, Groucho, 148–9, 151, 153, 156, 158, 292, 296–7 160–2, 164, 168, 171–5, 178, Chez Moi, 143–4, 155, 161–2, 164–7, 180–1, 184–5, 193, 198–9, 210, 170–2, 177, 198, 227, 231–2, 231, 287, 295 234–5, 237, 238–40, 244–7, Halcyon, 197, 199, 209–10, 212, 214, 253–6, 258–60, 262–7, 269, 272, 216–18, 224–7, 229, 231, 241, 265 274–6, 279–82 Haverstock Arms, Belsize Park, 38 Cibo, 176–9, 181–3, 185–7, 189, Hilaire, 150, 159, 211 191–5, 197–203, 205–7, 209–16, Ivy, 98, 183–5, 189, 192–4, 198–200, 219, 223–4, 226–7, 230, 236, 238, 202–5, 207–9, 212, 216–17, 220, 246, 248–9, 264, 268, 274, 276–7, 223–4, 226–7, 229–31, 233, 282–6, 288, 290, 292, 295–6 236–7, 240–1, 243–7, 249–50, Cock Tavern, Fleet Street, 21 254–8, 261–3, 267, 272–7, 279, Le Colombier, 254–5, 260, 265, 271, 284, 286–7, 290–1, 293–4 273, 292–3, 296, 298 Au Jardin, 141, 143, 145, 159, 162, Connaught Hotel, Mayfair, 27, 42, 47, 173, 297–8 54–5, 59, 73, 128, 132, 136, 138, King’s Head, 52 155–6, 184, 191, 298 Kingfisher, 160–1 Cotto, 294 Ladbroke Arms, 74, 79 Cricketers Sutton, 72 Little Acropolis, 72, 98, 102, 119, Cristoff’s, 233 161–3, 166, 187, 190–1, 194, 197, Da Mario, 168–9, 173, 175, 179, 184 200, 214 Dorchester Hotel, 22, 126 La Loggia, 66, 89, 119, 124, 147 Dorchester Hotel, Crystal Room, 33 Lola’s, 238 Drones, 119, 158, 202 Luigi’s, 214, 216, 233, 238, 283–6, Earl of Perth, 52 293, 295–6, 303 Edera, 291–5 Mandarin Kitchen, 232 England Garden, 125 Marquis of Granby, 27 L’Epicure, 63, 65, 67, 69–72, 76, Le Méridien, 169, 207 79–80, 83, 86, 89, 93, 99–100, Montcalm, 154, 157, 161 102, 104–5, 108–11, 113, 116, Museum Tavern, 77 118–20, 122–5, 127–9, 132, Nanking, 279 135–7, 140, 142–4, 147, 149, 151 Notting Hill Brasserie, 77, 283–7, L’Escargot, 87, 163, 271, 291 289–90, 296 Essenza, 298 Odette’s, 197 La Famiglia, 95 Odin’s, 47–50, 52–9, 67, 69–70, 76, La Fenice, 187–93, 195, 197, 200, 83, 99–100, 103, 110, 112, 120, 202–3, 206–8, 210–11, 214–17, 127, 130, 132, 136, 143–4, 149, 221–4, 234–5 151, 156, 181, 287, 292, 298 Fitzroy Tavern, 196 Orsino, 207–10, 212–16, 218, 220, Les Frères Jacques, 234 223–68, 270–1, 273–82 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Restaurants and pubs – continued New Orange Tree Theatre, 258 Orso, 156, 159, 176, 178, 188, 203, Orange Tree Theatre, 51, 274, 277, 206, 243, 248, 267, 274 292 El Padrino, 145 Richmond Theatre, 108, 244, 246 Pegasus, 215, 218, 223–4, 231–2, 238, Rose Theatre, 292 252–3 Rockingham Castle, Market Harborough, Piccola Venezia, 109 198 La Pomme, 94 Roehampton, 67, 141 Portman, 179 Russia, 1, 147, 172, 207 Quai St Pierre, 186 Moscow Arts Theatre, 36, 175 Quo Vadis, 107 Rowley’s, 48 Salisbury, 89, 249 Rules, 65, 89, 106, 185, 196 Sarajevo, 24 Salvador, 154 Scarborough, 282, 306 Sandrini, 186 Scotland Santa Croce, 100 Edinburgh, 19, 84, 118, 191, 273 Savoy Grill, 27, 270 Edinburgh Festival, 16, 118, 275, Savoy Hotel, 22, 25–7, 33, 43, 135, 300, 304 150, 172, 177, 193, 195, 224 George Hotel, 19 Savoy, River Room, 20 King Arthur’s Seat, 118 Scott’s, 60, 303 North British Hotel, 118 Sheekey’s, 165, 247, 249–52, 259, 264, Traverse Theatre, 84 266, 271, 279–80, 282–3, 286, Glasgow, 54, 136 295–6 University of Glasgow, 54 Simpson’s Steakhouse, 63 Inverness, 208 Swiss Tavern, 64 Perth, Gleneagles Hotel, 43 La Terraza, 32, 53 Stirling, 88 Thompson’s, 78, 83, 91, 93, 99–102, University of Stirling, 88 105, 107, 113, 115–18, 123–31, Serbia, 250–1 133–4, 136–43, 147, 150–2, Shepperton, 50–1 154–7, 159–67, 169, 171–5, Shepperton Studios, 50, 276 177–8, 181–8, 303 Sicily, 101 Tiberio, 37, 39, 52, 115 Palermo Festival, 239, 261 Timo, 293–4 Sidcup, 92, 109 Vendome, 48, 80 Somerset Venezia’s, 56, 80, 109 Babington House, 266 Volunteer, 33, 45, 48 Sonning-on-Thames, 181 Waldorf, 23, 31, 33, 54, 67, 75, 88, 92 South Africa, 18, 44, 54, 157, 170–1, Walton’s, 148, 161, 163 213, 293 Ward’s Irish House, 19 Cape Town, 316 Wheeler’s, Brighton, 102–4 Soviet Union, 82 White Tower, 144, 152–5, 157, 159, Spain 164, 175, 179, 213, 216 Barcelona, 217, 228, 231–2 Windsor Castle, 114, 153, 181, 183, Stockholm, 210, 265 194, 243, 277 Stratford-upon-Avon, 22, 26–7, 31–2, 45, Wolseley, 285–7, 289–90, 292–5 117, 151 Yorkshire Grey, 110 Alveston Manor Hotel, 32 Zen, 284–5 Suffolk, 57, 98, 124 Richmond, 55, 61, 75, 79, 81, 107, 220, Aldeburgh, 124, 294 222, 249, 251, 288 Bury St Edmunds, 315 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Seckford Hall, 98 Ambrose Place (No. 14), 15 Shrubland Hall Health Clinic, 57 Switzerland, 19, 234 Sunderland, 18 Surrey Torquay, Devon, Imperial Hotel, 273 Chiddingfold, 86 Twickenham/Studios, 22, 100, 113–17, Cobham, 22 119, 135, 144 Croydon, 50, 139, 306 Warehouse Theatre, 241 United Kingdom (UK), 3, 23, 24, 50, 70, Guildford, 42, 140, 189, 236, 261 169 Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, 156, 316 United States (USA), 17, 30, 50–1, 70, Lythe Hill Hotel, 119 161, 169, 200, 232, 255, 284, Sussex (West/East), 33 321 Bernhurst, 83, 87, 100, 107, 118, 126, Boston, 23–4, 69–71, 117, 135, 264 134, 143, 151, 159, 166, 177, 186, Colonial Theater, 69 190, 199, 205, 214, 229, 237, 253, Ritz Carlton, 69 260, 268, 273, 275–6, 282, 286, Chicago, 28 291, 297 Columbus, Ohio State University, 188 Brighton, 18, 30, 54, 63, 70, 72, 76, Connecticut, 135 81, 87, 90, 103, 106–7, 136, 138, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 160 141–2, 180, 215, 238, 250, Hollywood, 145 319 Los Angeles, 16, 109, 145–6, 184, 187, Grand Hotel, 166, 207, 215 197, 214 Royal Albion Hotel, 54 Bel-Air Hotel, 145 Royal Crescent Hotel, 107, 180 Polo Lounge, 145 Theatre Royal, 54, 70, 72, 90, 107, Philadelphia, 69 138, 180, 282 Providence, Rhode Island Charleston, East Sussex Literary Brown University, 111, 113 Festival, 266 Trinity Square Repertory Chichester, 106, 109, 125, 217, 220, Company, 114 222 Provincetown, Massachusetts, 69 Chichester Festival, 14 St Louis, Missouri, 145 Chichester Festival Theatre, 134 San Francisco, 146 Minerva Theatre, 227, 230, 316 Actors’ Workshop, 12 Eastbourne, 127 Univer sity of Michigan, 321 Grand Hotel, 76, 78, 87, 170, 176 University of Tampa, 304 Glyndebourne Opera House, 37, 83, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 107, 117, 174, 197, 209, 213, 258, 14 261 Washington, DC, 69, 71, 94, 135 Horsham, Collyer’s School, 310 British Embassy, 71 Hove, 26–8, 31, 36–7, 40–1, 44–7, 49, 52, 55, 60–3, 65–6, 69, 71–8, Vietnam, 28 80–4, 86–7, 89, 91–3, 95–6, 100, 102, 104–5, 108, 112–14, 117, Waddesdon Manor, Bucks, 236 119–25, 128–35, 143–4, 146, 148, Wales 150–5, 157–63, 165–7, 169, 172, Cardiff, 18, 45, 184 174–8, 186–99, 216, 226 Cardiff Festival, 215 Eaton Manor, The Drive (No. 36), 81 Theatr Clwyd, Mold, 219–20 Hurst Green, 273 Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 31, 48, University of Sussex, 165, 182 61–2, 69 Worthing, 20–1, 28, 310 Waltham Abbey Cemetery, 150 Copyrighted material – 978–0–230–27845–5

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Warwick, 38–9, 56, 63, 86, 181, 212, Grenada, Spice Island, 25 302, 306 Jamaica, 121 Emscote Lawn School, 306 Nevis, Leeward Islands, 154 Warwick School, 309 Wimbledon, 189, 197, 228, 252 Watford, 29–30, 155, 248–50 , 36 Palace Theatre, 30 Worcester, 73 West Indies, 21, 31, 46, 124, 165–6, 189–90, 220 Yorkshire, 2, 126, 310, 318 Antigua, 162 Whitby Spa Repertory Company, 6 Barbados, 25, 96, 225, 248, 255, 264, 279, 286, 293 Zagreb, 64, 66