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CHRONOLOGY
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William Baker
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Author Chronologies
General Editor: Norman Page, Emeritus Professor of Modern English

Literature, University of Nottingham
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William Baker
A WILKIE COLLINS CHRONOLOGY
A HAROLD PINTER CHRONOLOGY
J. L. Bradley
A RUSKIN CHRONOLOGY
Michael G. Brennan and Noel J. Kinnamon
A SIDNEY CHRONOLOGY 1554–1654
Gordon Campbell
A MILTON CHRONOLOGY
Alison Chapman and Joanna Meacock
A ROSSETTI FAMILY CHRONOLOGY
Edward Chitham
A BRONTË FAMILY CHRONOLOGY
Martin Garrett
A BROWNING CHRONOLOGY
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND ROBERT BROWNING
A MARY SHELLEY CHRONOLOGY
A. M. Gibbs
A BERNARD SHAW CHRONOLOGY
Graham Handley
AN ELIZABETH GASKELL CHRONOLOGY
J. R. Hammond
A ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON CHRONOLOGY
AN EDGAR ALLAN POE CHRONOLOGY
AN H. G. WELLS CHRONOLOGY
A GEORGE ORWELL CHRONOLOGY
Edgar F. Harden
A WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY CHRONOLOGY
A HENRY JAMES CHRONOLOGY
AN EDITH WHARTON CHRONOLOGY
Lisa Hopkins
A CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE CHRONOLOGY
John Kelly
A W. B. YEATS CHRONOLOGY
John McDermott
A HOPKINS CHRONOLOGY
Roger Norburn
A JAMES JOYCE CHRONOLOGY
A KATHERINE MANSFIELD CHRONOLOGY
Norman Page
AN EVELYN WAUGH CHRONOLOGY
AN OSCAR WILDE CHRONOLOGY
John Pilling
A SAMUEL BECKETT CHRONOLOGY
Peter Preston
A D. H. LAWRENCE CHRONOLOGY
Nicholas Maltzahn
AN ANDREW MARVELL CHRONOLOGY
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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 Harold Pinter 327
Index of People 335
Index of Places 362
v
General Editor’s Preface
Most biographies are ill-adapted to serve as works of reference – not

surprisingly so, since the biographer is likely to regard his function as the
devising of a continuous and readable narrative, with excursions into inter-
pretation and speculation, rather than a bald recital of facts. There are times,
however, when anyone reading for business or pleasure needs to check a
point quickly or to obtain a rapid overview of part of an author’s life or
career; and at such moments turning over the pages of a biography can be
a time-consuming and frustrating occupation. The present series of volumes
aims at providing a means whereby the chronological facts of an author’s
life and career, rather than needing to be prised out of the narrative in which
they are (if they appear at all) securely embedded, can be seen at a glance.
Moreover, whereas biographies are often, and quite understandably, vague
over matters of fact (since it makes for tediousness to be forever enumerat-
ing details of dates and places), a chronology can be precise whenever it is
possible to be precise.
Thanks to the survival, sometimes in very large quantities, of letters, dia-
ries, notebooks and other documents, as well as to thoroughly researched
biographies and bibliographies, this material now exists in abundance for
many major authors. In the case of, for example, Dickens, we can often
ascertain what he was doing in each month and week, and almost on each
day, of his prodigiously active working life; and the student of, say, David
Copperfield is likely to find it fascinating as well as useful to know just when
Dickens was at work on each part of that novel, what other literary enter-
prises he was engaged in at the same time, whom he was meeting, what
places he was visiting, and what were the relevant circumstances of his
personal and professional life. Such a chronology is not, of course, a sub-
stitute for a biography; but its arrangement, in combination with its index,
makes it a much more convenient tool for this kind of purpose; and it may
be acceptable as a form of ‘alternative’ biography, with its own distinctive
advantages as well as its obvious limitations.
Since information relating to an author’s early years is usually scanty
and chronologically imprecise, the opening section of some volumes
in this series groups together the years of childhood and adolescence.
Thereafter each year, and usually each month, is dealt with separately.
Information not readily assignable to a specific month or day is given as
a general note under the relevant year or month. The first entry for each
month carries an indication of the day of the week, so that when necessary
this can be readily calculated for other dates. Each volume also contains
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General Editor’s Preface vii
a bibliography of the principal sources of information. In the chronology

itself, the sources of many of the more specific items, including quotations,
are identified in order that the reader who wishes to do so may consult the
original contexts.
NORMAN PAGE
Introduction and Acknowledgements
The primary purpose of this chronology is to trace the events of the life of
the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and to pro-
vide an account wherever possible of his daily, monthly and yearly activities.
Biographically, critically and in terms of recognition, Pinter has not been
neglected: indeed on the contrary. Prolific, his Bibliographical History published
a month or so prior to the announcement of the award of the Nobel Prize for
literature, and three years before his death, records 57 published plays, eight
screenplays, 49 published poems – there are more – 14 items listed under the
‘fiction’ category, at least 57 items of prose non-fiction, essays, articles and pub-
lished speeches, over 50 published letters to newspapers and magazines and so
on, over 125 interviews printed in newspapers or magazines, at least 70 minor
pieces, collaborative writings, and many sound and audio-visual materials.
Biographically Pinter has been well served. Michael Billington’s indispensa-
ble The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, written with its subject’s approval, was
first published in 1996 and a revised paperback edition that included as an
Appendix Pinter’s Nobel lecture, delivered on 7 December 2005, was first pub-
lished in 2007 under the shorter title, Harold Pinter. Malcolm Page’s 1993 File on
Pinter contains a wealth of factual detail mainly relating to performances and
to productions of his work. Mel Gussow’s Conversations with Pinter published
a year later provides a valuable guide to Pinter’s aesthetic and other opinions.
Billington’s writings are full of critical insights. Notable critical work on
Pinter, to mention but a few, range from Martin Esslin’s pioneering The
Peopled Wound (1970), published in a revised version under the revised title
Pinter the Playwright (1982), to Alastair Macaulay’s brilliant exposition of
Pinter’s late play Ashes to Ashes published in The Financial Times (29 June
2001). Steven H. Gale’s Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter’s Screenplays and the Artistic
Process (2003) is, as its title suggests, a very detailed critical analysis with
much factual detail of Pinter’s screenplays and provides a text allowing ‘for a
fuller understanding of Pinter’s artistic approaches to filmmaking and to his
finished works’, although, as Gale admits, his study was unable to ‘include
analysis of all of Pinter’s televisions scripts as well’ (xv).
A marker of Pinter’s importance and the interest in his work may be seen
in the Pinter Review jointly edited by Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. The
journal was devoted to Pinter, to studies of his work, production reviews and
book reviews. As the editors write in their ‘Editors’ Column’ in the first issue:
‘the purpose of the Review is to provide Harold Pinter Society members with a
means of communicating information and for asking for information related
to the work of Harold Pinter. This includes all aspects of Pinter’s writing
(drama, film, prose, poetry and essay) as well as his acting and directing
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Introduction and Acknowledgements ix
activity’ (vii). The first issue, in common with subsequent ones, contains
previously unpublished Pinter work. Another important regular feature of
the Pinter Review was the bibliography, which continued to the final issue –
Remembering/Celebrating Harold Pinter: The Pinter Review: Memorial Volume
2009–2011 (2011). Susan Hollis Merritt’s bibliography contains data on the
appearance of Pinter’s original work, reviews of them, his essays, speeches and
correspondence, interviews, biographical profiles, theatrical performance of
his plays, reviews of these, films and videos, critical writings and so much
more. My own Harold Pinter in the Continuum Writers’ Lives series (2008) is
comprehensive in its coverage of the range of Pinter’s oeuvre.
The present Chronology attempts to record almost on a daily basis the facts
of its subject’s life and is deeply indebted to these works. It also draws upon
the information provided in print by those who were close to Pinter. Notable
amongst such writings are his widow Antonia Fraser’s most moving memoir,
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter, published in 2010, which records
their initial meeting and the subsequent fateful dinner party on 8 January
1975 at which their relationship, which lasted until his death 33 years later,
blossomed. Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle, edited by John
Goodwin, first published in 1983, contains a record of the great director’s
activities covering the years 1972 to 1980 – tumultuous ones for the National
Theatre – and his relationship with Pinter. Another important and published
source of information is that provided by the dramatist Simon Gray, whose
work Pinter directed. They dined together on a regular weekly or twice-
weekly basis for over 20 years. Their friendship was cemented by a mutual
love of cricket, and halcyon days were spent at Lord’s. Gray’s biographical
memoirs, An Unnatural Pursuit and Other Pieces (1985), The Smoking Diaries
(2004), The Last Cigarette (2008) and Coda, published in the same year, are a
source of much information about Harold Pinter and his daily routine.
Inevitably some periods of a person’s life are more fully documented than
others. The years before fame and fortune often lack as much factual detail
as one would wish. The periods receiving documentation from published
materials provide the foundation for a more complete factual record of
activities. The life of Harold Pinter is no exception. As Michael Billington
observes in his ODNB (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) entry on
Pinter, his subject thoroughly enjoyed the company of beautiful women.
Joan Bakewell’s The Centre of the Bed, published in 2003, focuses on her
experiences and to some extent her relationship with Pinter while he was
married to Vivien Merchant and she to Michael Bakewell, the BBC producer.
Their relationship forms the foundation for Pinter’s frequently revived 1978
play Betrayal, containing a fascinating and complicated time sequence.
A Harold Pinter Chronology is also indebted to the opportunity to consult
the wealth of material found in the British Library Harold Pinter archive.
Acknowledgement must be given to the published materials the present
author was able to draw upon but also to the late Harold Pinter’s agent Judy
x Introduction and Acknowledgements
Daish, to his widow Dame Antonia Fraser and to the late Harold Pinter him-
self, for allowing consultation of the archive. Also thanks are due at the British
Library to Dr Sally Brown, the former Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts,
to Jamie Andrews, the present Curator, and the staff at Manuscript Inquiries
at the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library, for assistance with
consulting the large Pinter archive. This consists of 60 boxes of Pinter’s liter-
ary papers that were deposited on loan to the British Library in 1993, with
additional boxes deposited on loan between 1994 and 2005. The entire
archive was purchased in 2007. A description is available online at the British
Library’s Libraries Manuscripts site and in Susan Hollis Merritt’s helpful ‘The
Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library’ (The Pinter Review [1994]: 14–53).
Particularly helpful for the present record of Pinter’s daily activities has
been consultation of his annual ‘Appointment Diaries’. Most of these are
in Pinter’s hand and they cover the years from 1966 to 2005, although the
Diaries for 1968 and 1973 are missing from the Pinter archive (Add. Mss
88880/121–38). Also most helpful have been copies of correspondence relat-
ing to his prose work (Add. Mss 88880/6/33–53), correspondence relating to
production of his plays (Add. Mss 88880/6/1–25), and to provide one further
instance of materials consulted but not directly quoted from, his scrapbooks
(Add. Mss 88880/9).
Given the extent of published and unpublished material, what follows is
the attempt to incorporate as much of its detail as possible given space limi-
tation. There is inclusion as well as deliberate omission. The listing of the
names of actors appearing in the first and subsequent productions of Pinter’s
plays, and those he produced, has largely been omitted as have the dates of
subsequent performances. There has been an attempt to incorporate infor-
mation about a person whenever mentioned. For instance, regrettably Angus
Wilson’s reputation as a novelist has fallen since his death, so it is necessary
to say that he was a novelist following his initial mention; however, his birth
and death dates (1913–91) are excluded. An elaborate system of abbrevia-
tions, of persons and places frequently mentioned in this Chronology, has
been constructed, and there is an ‘Index of People’ and an ‘Index of Places’.
A ‘Who’s Who’ follows the ‘Chronology’, providing in alphabetical order
details with dates of the main real-life players in the drama of Pinter’s life.
In the ‘Chronology’, occasional and external events are introduced, such as
Victory-in-Europe Day, 8 May 1945, Clement Attlee’s election victory, 26
July 1945, and the 2001 bombing of New York’s Twin Towers.
A Harold Pinter Chronology documents the life of a great writer and man of
the theatre. It records the dates and in many instances the times of rehears-
als, previews, meetings of production staff, lighting, costume discussions
and so on, reminding us what a highly complex and time-consuming pro-
cess putting a play on stage actually is. Mentioned too are cast selection and
subsequent changes during performance – rehearsing actors, frequently lead
actors for a takeover of a role.
Introduction and Acknowledgements xi
Pinter was prolific in many forms. Unfortunately word limitation pre-

cluded complete details of each instance of his creativity. So only ‘A’ (drama)
and ‘B’ (films) bibliographical items in the Baker and Ross Bibliographical
History are described in detail or referred to, although, given the importance
Pinter placed on his poetry, his individual poems and publication venues
have also been included. Other work of his is mostly instanced by their Baker
and Ross references (for example, BR: E18 refers to ‘Public and Private: Notes
by Harold Pinter’, Manitoba Theatre Centre Newsletter, 1 January 1972: 1–2).
Such detail has been omitted, as have reprintings, although in the case of the
‘A’ items (his drama) significant subsequent editions of texts containing revi-
sions are included in the chronological detail. An ‘Index of Works by Harold
Pinter’ mentioned in the ‘Chronology’ is included at the end of the book.
In section H of the Bibliographical History, encompassing Pinter’s minor
pieces, collaborative writings, editing and so on, H69 contains information
on The Catch: A Correspondence. Published 6 November 2003, with 50 copies
signed by Pinter and Alan Wilkinson, the publisher, the text describes a fine
catch Pinter made while playing for the Gaieties Cricket Club. Information
on the club and Pinter’s involvement with it is found on the Pinter website
(www.haroldpinter.org). This reveals for instance that he became Gaieties
captain in 1972. He appeared regularly for the team from the early 1970s
and attended its matches until just before his death. Some of his finest prose
pieces and poetry are associated with the Gaieties and cricket: for instance,
his tribute to Arthur Wellard (1902–80), of Somerset and England (1981),
and his poem in memory of the schoolmaster who influenced him so pro-
foundly, Joe Brearley, begins with the line ‘I saw Len Hutton in his prime’.
Gaieties played on a weekly basis or sometimes twice weekly during the sum-
mer. Out of season Pinter attended regularly their meetings, often an excuse
for heavy drinking. During the winter Pinter went to cricket nets at Lord’s
(abbreviated as ‘nets’ in the ‘Chronology’), and during the cricket season he
was accompanied by close friends to test matches and to county matches at
Lord’s. His magnificent cinematic adaptation of L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between
contains a most important cricket sequence.
A difficult issue, given word limitation, arose in the planning of the
‘Chronology’ concerning the inclusion or omission of the Gaieties cricket
matches in which Pinter was involved. Clearly they meant much to him. The
study at his London home contained a large run of Wisden, the cricketers’
almanac and reference work, paintings of Lord’s and cricketers. Given the
game’s personal and creative importance to Pinter, I decided to include them.
He named characters after cricketers, such as Bates and Rumsey in the power-
ful play Silence from 1968 that took such a long time to write. It is a heart-
breaking, moving, beautiful invocation of the contradictions of memory.
Given word limitations I abbreviated Gaieties versus ... to Ga and then the
team: so for instance Gaieties versus Sidcup, an annual match, becomes ‘Ga
Sidcup’. A listing of where matches took place is included in the ‘Index of
xii Introduction and Acknowledgements
Places’, which concludes A Harold Pinter Chronology. However, the matches

against the Guardian newspaper did not consist of regular Gaieties players but
those especially invited by Pinter to play, consequently in the ‘Chronology’
they are referred to as ‘HP’s XI’.
Another Pinter sporting obsession, especially from the late 1970s onwards,
was tennis: he also played squash. No doubt tennis appealed to Pinter’s com-
petitive spirit and social nature. He also played it for health reasons. Antonia
Fraser in her ‘Diary’ dated 10 October 1985, Pinter’s 55th birthday, writes of
his attempt to give up smoking and ‘all the new exercise thanks to tennis at
the beloved Vanderbilt Club’ (Must You Go: 180) where he played indoors or
outdoors until his health began to seriously deteriorate at the end of 2002:
then, as she writes, ‘our beloved Vanderbilt Club came to an end’ (268). Space
is lacking to indicate the specific times and dates he played tennis. Regular
partners or opponents include Antonia Fraser, her son Benjie, the very fine
actor Edward Fox and Pinter’s great friend the dramatist Ronald Harwood,
with whom he lunched or dined on a regular basis for almost 30 years.
In middle age, from the late 1970s onwards, Pinter took up bridge and
became skilled at it. Through playing bridge, Pinter formed friendships that
were not necessarily from the theatrical or cinematic worlds. Two instances,
one from each, will suffice. He played bridge with the Provost of Eton, the
former Conservative politician William Waldegrave, and his wife. In addi-
tion to playing regularly with them, he also played bridge with Karel and
Betsy Reisz. Karel Reisz was a great film director who worked with Pinter
over a long period of time: they met on a regular social as well as artistic
basis for a period of more than 35 years. Following Karel Reisz’s death in
November 2002, Pinter continued to play on almost a weekly or twice-
weekly basis with his widow Betsy. Such activities became part of the fabric
of Pinter’s daily activity and should not be omitted. His bridge sessions usu-
ally took place in the latter part of the evening at his Campden Hill home.
In order to save words, this activity has been recorded either by using the
word ‘bridge’ or by stating the names of the players, for example Betsy Reisz
or ‘Was’ – the abbreviation used for William Waldegrave and his wife. Pinter
was very attached to his parents and as a dutiful son regularly visited them
in Hove, Sussex. Also in the attempt to reduce words, it has not been felt
necessary to write ‘Hove, visits parents’; in this instance ‘Hove’ will suffice.
Another love of Pinter was his delight in food, in dining out. His love of
food, especially various kinds of Italian food, is demonstrated in going to
restaurants frequently, often twice a day. He wrote at them, stopping conver-
sation to note an idea; he worked on drafts at them. For more than 30 years
these restaurants were in a three-mile radius of Notting Hill, of Campden Hill
Square where he put down his roots. His restaurant habits reveal his collabora-
tive social nature, his capacity for friendships that lasted, and they run counter
to the themes of solitude, the anti-social, desolation and silence frequently
reverberating in his dramatic writing. Restaurants form the foundation for
Introduction and Acknowledgements xiii
his last-known dramatic work, Celebration, first performed at the Almeida on

16 March 2000. This play reveals the importance restaurants had for Pinter as
not merely a location in his dramatic characters’ world but one in which, to
quote from the play, ‘to celebrate a treasured wedding anniversary’, a locale for
human communication, with people revealing intimate details about them-
selves, where the distances between people break down, and where the noise
is punctuated by the sounds of mobile phones. In short, Pinter’s restaurant
visits (the specific restaurants he visited are listed in alphabetical order in the
‘Index of Places’ at the end of this book), like his love for cricket, could not be
omitted. As stated, A Harold Pinter Chronology is an attempt to document what
Harold Pinter did in each month, week and almost on each day in a very active
life. So as he spent time in restaurants, the name of the restaurants, the precise
time if available and with whom he dined and passed his time are included.
Finally, in addition to the indebtedness already conveyed in compiling
such a record as this, thanks are also due to my colleagues at Northern Illinois
University. These include Ron Barshinger and his colleagues at the Document
Delivery Services Department at Northern University Libraries. Respective
Chairs and Heads of Graduate Studies at the English Department were ever
supportive, providing, for instance, research assistants. Special thanks must
go to Lisa Knauf, Kelsey Ann Williams and Erika Sparby for their consider-
able assistance. The English Department, Northern Illinois University and the
University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, the University Provost Ray
Alden III and the Board of Trustees at Northern University granted the author
a sabbatical leave of absence for the spring semester, 2013, to work on and to
complete this Chronology.
Dr Donald Hawes, Dr Christopher Brookes and Harry Burton, personal
friends of Harold Pinter, and Steven Price provided invaluable assistance. Staff at
Palgrave Macmillan – Catherine Mitchell, Benjamin Doyle, Sophie Ainscough
and others – deserve many thanks for their flexibility and understanding, as
does the anonymous publisher’s reader for producing a most thorough report
on the manuscript and making many useful suggestions for its improvement.
Thanks are due also to Monica Kendall for her excellent editorial work. Special
thanks must go to Professor Norman Page, the General Editor of Palgrave’s dis-
tinguished Author Chronologies series. Much has been gained, as I have said,
from the Pinter biographers, critics and bibliographers already mentioned. My
debts are so many that if I have inadvertently omitted the person or institution,
my apologies. Any errors are mine and I take responsibility for them. Personal
indebtedness includes my daughters Sharon and Karen, their husbands Joel
and Mark, and my grandchildren for being splendid hosts during lengthy
London visits. Of course my thanks to my wife Rivka are beyond words.
William Baker
Northern Illinois University
May 2013
List of Abbreviations
People
AAy Alan Ayckbourn

AB Alan Bates
AF Antonia Fraser
AS Alan Schneider
BB Barbara Bray
BF Benjie Fraser
BFs Benjie and Lucy Fraser
CB Claire Bloom
CBr Christopher Brookes
CF Christopher Falkus
CFs Christopher and Gila Falkus
CM Christopher Morahan
DJ David Jones
DM David Mercer
DP Donald Pleasence
DPh Diana Phipps
ED Eileen Diss
EK Elia Kazan
EO Edna O’Brien
FF Flora Fraser (see also FRs)
FP Frances Pinter
FRs Flora and Robert Powell-Jones
FWy Francis Wyndham
GG Geoffrey Godbert
GV Guy Vaesen
GW George Weidenfeld
GWs George and Annabelle Weidenfeld
HG Harold Goodman
HJP Hyman ( Jack) Pinter
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List of Abbreviations xv
HP Harold Pinter
HW Henry Woolf
HWi Heathcote Williams
IH Ian Hamilton
JB Joseph Brearley
JBa Joan Bakewell
JD Judy Daish
JE Jack Emery
JG John Gross
JGi John Gielgud
JI Jeremy Irons
JL Joseph Losey
JLs Joseph and Patricia Losey
JS Jerry Schatzberg
JW Jimmy Wax
KB Kevin Billington
KBs Kevin and Rachel Billington
KI Kenneth Ives
KR Karel Reisz
KRs Karel and Betsy Reisz
LM Louis Marks
LO Laurence Olivier
Longford Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
LOs Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright
MB Michael Bakewell
MBi Michael Billington
MBis Michael and Jeanine Billington
MBr Melvyn Bragg
MBrs Melvyn and Catherine Bragg
MC Michael Codron
ME Martin Esslin
MG Mick Goldstein
MGa Michael Gambon
MK Michael Kustow
xvi List of Abbreviations
MN Mike Nichols
MW Moishe Wernick
NH Nick Hern
OS Oliver Sacks
PA Peggy Ashcroft
PH Peter Hall
PR Philip Roth
PW Peter Willes
RB Robert Bolt
RH Ronald Harwood
RHs Ronald and Natasha Harwood
RR Ralph Richardson
RS Robert Shaw
RSt Roger Stevens
SB Samuel Beckett
SG Simon Gray
SGs Simon and Beryl Gray, then Simon Gray and Victoria Rothschild
SR Salman Rushdie
SRs Salman Rushdie and partner/wife
SS Sam Spiegel
TA Tony Astbury
TPs Thomas (8th Earl of Longford) and Val Pakenham
TS Tom Stoppard
TSs Tom and Miriam Stoppard
VM Vivien Merchant
VR Victoria Rothschild (see also SGs)
Wa William Waldegrave
Was William and Caroline Waldegrave
Works by/adapted by Harold Pinter
A Accident
AA Ashes to Ashes
AKA A Kind of Alaska
List of Abbreviations xvii
ATP Art, Truth and Politics

B Betrayal
BP Birthday Party
C The Caretaker
CE Celebration
Co The Collection
CS The Comfort of Strangers
D The Dwarfs
DCh The Dreaming Child
DW The Dumb Waiter
FLW The French Lieutenant’s Woman
FV Family Voices
GB The Go-Between
H The Homecoming
HD The Heat of the Day
Ho The Hothouse
HT The Handmaid’s Tale
L Landscape
LGD Langrishe, Go Down
LT The Last Tycoon
M Moonlight
m monologue
MoL Mountain Language
NM No Man’s Land
NWO The New World Order
OFR One for the Road
OP Other Places
OT Old Times
PaT Party Time
PC Press Conference
Re The Remains of the Day
Ru Reunion
S Silence
SA A Slight Ache
xviii List of Abbreviations
TB The Basement
TD Turtle Diary
TP Tea Party
V Victory
VV Various Voices
Drama by others
BS Blithe Spirit
Bu Butley
CaB Circle and Bravo
Classes The Late Middle Classes
CP Close of Play
CPu The Common Pursuit
E Exiles
I The Innocents
ITH Incident at Tulse Hill
LS Life Support
NK Next of Kin
O Oleanna
OE Otherwise Engaged
OM The Old Masters
QT Quartermaine’s Terms
RCo The Rear Column
SBY Sweet Bird of Youth
TSi Taking Sides
Twelve Twelve Angry Men
Miscellaneous abbreviations
3P Third Programme (BBC radio); later BBC Radio 3

Ald Aldwych Theatre
BAFTA British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BBC1, BBC2, BBC4 British Broadcasting Corporation television channels
BFI British Film Institute
BL British Library
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CGa Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Cot Cottesloe Theatre (National Theatre)
Ga Gaieties Cricket Club
GSQ Grill St Quentin restaurant
ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts
IP International PEN
ITV UK network of commercial television channels
Ly Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre)
NFT National Film Theatre
NT National Theatre
Ol Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
OV Old Vic (the theatre base for the National Theatre
company 1963–76)
QEH Queen Elizabeth Hall
RADA Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
RC Royal Court Theatre (including ( Jerwood) Theatre
Downstairs and Theatre Upstairs)
RFH Royal Festival Hall
RSC Royal Shakespeare Company
TLS Times Literary Supplement
Other books and sources
Billington Michael Billington, Harold Pinter (London: Faber and Faber,

2007)
BR William Baker and John C. Ross, Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical
History (London: The British Library and New Castle, DE: Oak
Knoll Press, 2005)
Diaries Peter Hall, Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,
edited by John Goodwin (New York: Harper Row, 1984)
HPA Harold Pinter Archive, British Library
Must Antonia Fraser, Must You Go?: My Life With Harold Pinter
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010)
Putting Michael Codron and Alan Strachan, Putting It On: The West End
Theatre of Michael Codron (London: Duckworth Overlook, 2010)
Sharp Cut Steven H. Gale, Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter’s Screenplays and the
Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)
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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2 A Harold Pinter Chronology
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 night 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 relationships,
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 Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
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
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source ‘for the image of A Slight Ache [SA] ... when I started to write the play
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
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
short story ‘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.
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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 ‘European
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 Drama. 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.
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, Hammersmith: adopts the

stage name ‘David Baron’ (after September 1960 uses his own name). HP
performs various roles such as Salanio in The Merchant of Venice and Officer in
Twelfth Night.
1953–57
Casual jobs such as waiter, dishwasher, bouncer, writing, acting in provincial

repertory companies. With Wolfit’s company, first encounters Vivien Merchant
(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 Agatha Christie’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.
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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 Blackbird.
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.
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 The Room (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 The Dumb Waiter (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 the Sunday Times student drama
competition, Bristol. One of the judges, Harold Hobson (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 Brand’).
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 rehearsals
for its first production in April 1958 (Kenyon Review, 3 [Summer
1981]: 2–5; BR: E7).
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April
28 (Mon) BP opens at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge. Writes SA (based upon
an unproduced radio play, Something in Common) and The Hothouse
(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 The Caretaker (C; BR: W14).
February
28 (Sat) DW premiered Frankfurt am Main.
May
11 (Mon) Tavistock Players perform BP at the Tower Theatre, Canonbury,
Islington.
Spring, early summer

Writes A Night Out for radio (BR: W13).
Summer
‘The Examination’ (Prospect, 21–5; BR: D1a).
July
15 (Wed) Trouble in the Works 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 Hampstead Theatre
Club, directed by HP, transfers to Royal Court Theatre (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 television, Associated Rediffusion TV, directed by Joan
Kemp-Welch.
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April
24 (Sun) A Night Out, ABC-TV, directed by Philip Saville, VM as the Girl,
HP as Seeley.
27 (Wed) C opens at the Arts Theatre Club. Correspondence with Joseph
( Joe) Losey ( JL, HPA).
May
C First Encore edition published (BR: A2).
14 (Sat) Interview with Julian Holland (Evening News; BR: G3).
23 (Mon) Interview with O. Webster, on his work as a playwright. Within
Today programme, Voices in the Air, BBC Home Service, recorded
and broadcast 26 or 30 May 1960, also broadcast 2 June 1960.
26 (Thur) That’s All and The Applicant on 3P.
30 (Mon) C opens at the Duchess Theatre for a long run, directed by
Donald McWhinnie, with Alan Bates (AB) as Mick, Peter
Woodthorpe as Aston and Donald Pleasence (DP) as Davies. wins
Evening Standard Award.
Early summer
Sees Ian Hamilton’s (IH) production of SA at Keble College, Oxford, stays at
the Mitre Hotel (see BR: E43).
Summer
Moves to Fairmead Court, Kew.
June
5 (Sun) Interviewed about C on Monitor.
9 (Thur) Interviewed in the In Town Tonight programme, BBC Home
Service, broadcast 11 June 1960 (BR: K1, J8).
27 (Mon) ‘Umbrellas’ sketch, part of review You, Me and the Gatepost per-
formed at the Nottingham Playhouse (see Mark Brown, ‘Harold
Pinter’s Forgotten Sketch Rediscovered After More than 50 Years’,
Guardian, 24 October 2011: www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/
oct/24/harold-pinter-sketch-umbrella/print.
July
1 (Fri) ‘The Black and White’, The Spectator, 203, 16 (BR: D2a).
11 (Mon) Letter from Terence Rattigan praising C (HPA).
19 (Tue) Interview with Hallam Tennyson, Dateline London, BBC General
Overseas Service, recorded and broadcast 7 August 1960 (BR: J9).
21 (Thur) Night School, originally titled ‘My Nephew’, televised, networked
by Associated Rediffusion, directed by Joan Kemp-Welch. First
Methuen edition, BP and Other Plays (BR: W15, A4).
27 (Wed) First American production of BP opens at the Actors’ Workshop,

San Francisco.
18 (Thur) Philip Purser interview (News Chronicle, 6; BR: G4).
August
‘Reply to Open Letter by Leonard Russell’ (Sunday Times, 21), response to
criticism (BR: F2).
18 (Thur) Begins correspondence with Samuel Beckett (SB, HPA).
19 (Fri) Interview with Kenneth Tynan. In People Today programme, BBC
Home Service, recorded and broadcast 28 October 1960.
September
1 (Thur) Interview with Charles Marowitz (Village Voice; BR: J10, G5).
October
10 (Mon) HP’s 30th birthday.
14 (Fri) ‘London Echo: An Interview with John Wain’, BBC General
Overseas Service, recorded (BR: J11).
December
2 (Fri) D, as radio play, on 3P, directed by Barbara Bray (BB).
20 (Tue) The Black and White and Trouble in the Works French’s Acting
Edition published (BR: W16, A6).
1961
A Night Out informally published as a radio script, first broadcast by 3P. DW

appears in Penguin anthology. Early in the year, writing The Collection (also
called ‘A Glass Eye’, Co; BR: W13, A8d, 9a, 11a, W17b).
January
Harry Thompson interview, New Theatre Magazine, II: 2 ( January 1961): 8–10
(BR: G6).
3 (Tue) The Room, British Acting Edition; DW, British Acting Edition (BR:
A7, 8).
6 (Fri) Interview on C, London Mirror series. BBC Light Programme,
recorded and broadcast 14 January 1961 (BR: J22).
18 (Wed) SA (as stage play) opens, Arts Theatre Club, within a triple bill,
Three, transfers to the Criterion Theatre, directed by Donald
McWhinnie. Participant Wednesday Magazine programme. BBC
TV, transmitted, 2:45–3:30pm (BR: K2).
25 (Wed) John Osborne sends postcard to HP: Osborne ‘overwhelmed’ by
SA’s ‘power and skill’ (HPA).
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February/March
HP plays Mick in C at the Duchess Theatre.
February
‘Writing for Myself’, based on interview with Richard Findlater (Twentieth
Century, 169: 1008: 172–5). ‘Afternoon’ (Twentieth Century, 169: 1008: 218:
BR: E9, C11).
13 (Mon) Participant discussion on playwrights, Tonight programme, BBC
TV, 6:50–7:29pm.
17 (Fri) Interview, The World of Books programme, BBC Radio 4, recorded
and broadcast 18 February 1961: 10:10pm.
27 (Mon) Carl Wildman interviews Donald McWhinnie and Harold Pinter,
BBC Network Three, broadcast 7 March 1961 (BR: K3, J13–14).
March
1 (Tue) A Night Out (3P): HP plays the role of Seeley.
May
11 (Thur) Co on television, Associated Rediffusion, directed by Joan Kemp-
Welch.
15 (Mon) C and DW American first edition, Grove Press.
June
1 (Thur) SA and Other Plays first edition, Methuen (BR: A10a, 12).
July
25 (Tue) In Eugene Ionesco’s Victims of Duty, 3P, recorded and broadcast
21 August 1961, producer Martin Esslin (ME, Head of BBC Radio
Drama) 8:50–10pm (BR: J15).
August
8 (Tue) DW televised, Granada, directed by Paul Almond.
September
‘The Examination’ (Encounter, 96: 9–11: BR: D1b).
17 (Sun) A Night Out (as stage play) opens Gate Theatre, Dublin. 2 October,
opens Comedy Theatre, within triple bill, Counterpoint.
21 (Thur) BP and The Room First American Edition, Grove Press (BR: A11).
October
4 (Wed) C opens Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, runs for five months.
5 (Thur) The Room televised, Granada, directed by Alvin Rakoff.
14 (Sat) The Room New York production.
30 (Mon) Personal Anthology, introduces and reads his own choice of

poetry, 3P, broadcast 9:45–10:15pm Repeated 7 October 1962,
10:25–11pm.
November
10 (Thur) Interview (Time, 76: BR: J16, G7).
1962
HP and Christopher Fry contribute ‘Foreword’ to Eugène Labiche’s Two Plays,

published Dramatists Play Service. ‘Theatre: A Discussion.’ London: Argo 1962
LP recording (BR: H1, J18).
January
3 (Wed) Interview about BP BBC TV.
15 (Mon) Interview in Vogue, 139: 25 (BR: K4, G8).
March
4 (Sun) Speech ‘Writing for the Theatre’ (Sunday Times, 25). Interview
(Sunday Times, 25; BR: E10, G9).
20 (Tue) C on BBC Radio.
29 (Thur) Father’s 60th birthday.
April
10 (Tue) SA British Acting Edition.
12 (Thur) Italian edition The Room translated by Elio Nissim (BR: A5b,
W5.7).
June
18 (Mon) Co opens at the Aldwych Theatre (Ald), directed for the Royal
Shakespeare Company (RSC) by Peter Hall (PH) and HP.
21 (Thur) Peter Lewis interview Time and Tide, 16–17.
29 (Fri) On Wednesday Magazine programme, BBC TV (BR: G10, K5).
July
22 (Sun) At University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus, Guthrie Theater.
DW first American production.
23 (Mon) ‘Pinterview’ (Newsweek, 60: 69; BR: G11).
August
2 (Thur) Laurence Olivier (LO) asks HP whether he is interested in writing
a play for the Chichester Festival the next year.
22 (Wed) On Midweek programme, BBC Home Service.
23 (Thur) C second Methuen edition, revised, published (BR: J17, A2c).
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September
7 (Fri) 3P The Examination: reads prose piece.
October
4 (Thur) First New York production of C at Lyceum Theater. Learns that Co
successfully performed at the Schiller Theater, Berlin.
15 (Mon) Draft of C screenplay with revisions (HPA).
27 (Sat) Living at 6 Fairmead Court, Taylor Avenue, Kew.
November
6 (Tue) ‘Interview with Harold Pinter’ (New York Times, 39; BR: G12).
9 (Fri) Co on radio, 3P.
26 (Mon) DW New York production in double bill with Co, Cherry Lane
Theatre, directed by Alan Schneider (AS).
December
Shooting begins for film of C, directed by Clive Donner. Working on screen-
play of The Servant with JL based on Robin Maugham novel (first proposed
by JL, 27 April 1960). Writes The Lover for television.
1963
Moves to 14 Ambrose Place, Worthing. Writes screenplay of The Pumpkin

Eater, from novel by Penelope Mortimer, and drafts The Homecoming (H).
Dialogue for Three (Stand [Newcastle upon Tyne] BR: A15).
January
Involved with filming The Servant.
February
19 (Tue) A Night Out French’s Acting Edition published (BR: A9b).
March
28 (Thur) The Lover, Associated Rediffusion Television, wins Prix Italia
for Television Drama and several Guild of British Television
Producers and Directors Awards.
April
17 (Wed) Reads ‘Mac’ (prose reminiscence) on radio, 3P.
25 (Thur) Co and The Lover, also The Examination, Methuen first edition
(BR: W20.2, A14a).
May
12–15 (Sun–Wed) Participant in Late Night Line-Up programme, BBC TV
(BR: K9).
June
3 (Mon) Correspondence with Peter Willes (actor and producer, PW) (HPA).
26 (Wed) Signatory to ‘Playwrights in Apartheid Protest’ (Times, 12; BR: H2).
27 (Thur) Under the title The Guest, Clive Donner’s adaptation of C
awarded Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival.
Summer
Family vacation in Italy. ‘Filming The Caretaker: Harold Pinter and Clive Donner
interviewed by Kenneth Cavander’ (Transatlantic Review, 13: 17–26; BR: G13).
September–October
C performed to great success in Buenos Aires, and other Argentinian cities,
directed by Jorge Petraglia.
September
3 (Tue) Extract from speech, in ‘Drama Conference’ event within
Edinburgh Drama Festival, 3P. Film of C gained the Edinburgh
Festival Certificate of Merit. The film of The Servant released at the
Venice Film Festival, directed by JL. HP as ‘Society Man’.
15 (Sun) Talk: ‘On Films’, BBC Home Service broadcast (BR: J19–20).
16 (Mon) American premiere The Servant New York Film Festival.
18 (Wed) The Lover (as stage play) in double bill with D, opens Arts Theatre
Club, co-directed by HP and Guy Vaesen (GV), produced by MC.
19 (Thur) On Tonight programme, BBC TV, 6:50–7:29pm (BR: K6).
October
6 (Sun) Philip Oakes interview, On Films, BBC Home Service.
8 (Tue) HP talking about his recent work for the cinema and the theatre,
3P, ‘New Comment’ broadcast.
November
10 (Sun) Interviewed about The Servant, Monitor BBC TV (BR: J20–1, K7).
14 (Thur) London opening of The Servant. Gained the British Screenwriters
Guild Award; the Los Angeles Film Critics Award; New York Film
Critics Best Writing Award; listed by the New York Times as one
of the best films of 1963.
December
17 (Tue) Co French’s Acting Edition (BR: A16a).
1964
Moves to Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park. Writes Tea Party (TP) (as tele-
vision play, for BBC TV, European Broadcasting Union). Writes first draft of
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screenplay of The Go-Between (GB), by L.P. Hartley, for JL Film. John Kershaw
interview Independent Television (BR: A8e, W23, 31, K8).
January
5 (Sun) First New York production of The Lover, Cherry Lane Theatre,
directed by AS.
20 (Mon) C film released 20 January 1964 in USA as The Guest, possibly in
order to avoid confusion with Hall Bartlett’s The Caretakers, released
in 1963. Directed by Clive Donner. Film receives Screenwriters’
Guild Award. HP takes a Hitchcock-like, non-speaking cameo in
which he is accosted by the tramp Davies in a brief street scene.
February–March
Interview (Isis National, 18–20). Applicant (excerpt from Ho), That’s Your
Trouble, That’s All, Interview and Dialogue on 3P (BR: G14, W12).
February
C publicly released.
26 (Wed) Mother’s 60th birthday. Paul Mayersberg interview, 3P, broadcast.
March
1 (Sun) Lee Langley interview New York Herald Tribune, Magazine Section,
24 (BR: J22, G15).
7 (Sat) Marshall Pugh interview Daily Mail, 8.
14 (Sat) Nan Winton interview In Town Today, BBC Radio 4, broadcast (BR:
G16, J23).
April
28 (Tue) Nine sketches directed by Michael Bakewell (MB), 3P (BR: W11.6).
May
The Lover French’s Acting Edition (BR: A17).
June
2 (Tue) Reads TP (written the previous year as a short story) on 3P.
18 (Thur) BP RSC revival opens Ald, directed by HP.
July
15 (Wed) Film The Pumpkin Eater released (BR: W21).
23 (Thur) Co and The Lover, also The Examination, Methuen second edition
(BR: A14b).
August–September
‘Writing for the Theatre’ (Evergreen Review; BR: E10).
December
9 (Wed) New York revival of The Room in double bill with SA, Writers’ Stage
Theater, directed by Word Baker.
1965–66
Working on screenplay of Nicholas Mosley’s Accident (A) directed by JL.
1965
Working on screenplay of Elleston Trevor’s (‘Adam Hall’) The Quiller Memo-

randum, from Trevor’s The Berlin Memorandum. The Compartment distributed
typescript published. The Black and White and Last To Go British anthology
published by Longman. C and BP American edition published by Nelson
Doubleday (BR: B1, A18a, 19a).
January
TP (Playboy, 124; BR: D3a).
February
15 (Mon) The Lover American Acting Edition, Dramatists Play Service (BR:
A17b).
March
9 (Tue) Barry Norman interview Daily Mail, 8.
20 (Sat) Interview, Daily Mirror (BR: G17–18).
25 (Thur) TP broadcast on BBC TV, directed by Charles Jarrott. H opens in
Cardiff.
30 (Tue) Receives British Film Academy Award for screenplay of The
Pumpkin Eater.
May
7 (Fri) Mercy Appet interview on subject of apartheid in South Africa, in Focus
on Africa, BBC Overseas Service, broadcast 11 May 1965 (BR: J25).
June
3 (Thur) H opens in London, Ald, directed by PH.
10 (Thur) H first edition, Methuen, published.
14 (Mon) Desert Island Discs. Castaway: introduces his own selection of
music, BBC Home Service, broadcast (BR: A20a, J24).
July
22 (Thur) H is being performed in Cardiff, then Manchester, Sunderland,
Liverpool, Brighton, Cambridge and London.
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Summer
The Black and White (Flourish, 4: 4; BR: D2b).
October
18 (Mon) D and Eight Revue Sketches American Acting Edition, Dramatists
Play Service (BR: A21a).
November
3 (Wed) Interview ABC Television. First broadcast (BR: K10).
15 (Mon) HP plays Garcia in No Exit (Huis Clos) by Jean-Paul Sartre on
BBC2.
1966
Writes The Basement (TB) for BBC2. ITV production of C. Film The Quiller Memo-
randum released, directed by Michael Anderson, October (BR: A23a, W25).
January
3 (Mon) Flies to Switzerland.
11 (Tue) HP at 135 Central Park West, New York, 10023. Sees Edward
Albee’s A Delicate Balance which he admires.
12 (Wed) Early evening Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss filmmaker.
13 (Thur) Back in London: early evening JB.
14 (Fri) Morning B.S. Johnson, author. Lunch Robert Shaw (RS).
18 (Tue) Lunch MG: Ward’s Irish House.
22 (Sat) 11:00am Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director.
26 (Wed) Evening SB reading, Dulwich.
February
1 (Tue) 5:30pm Michelangelo Antonioni. First night of H in Amsterdam.
2 (Wed) 6pm JB.
3 (Thur) 6pm hears SB.
4 (Fri) Morning Arts Council.
5 (Sat) To Lime Grove Studios to see SB’s Eh Joe.
6 (Sun) Day with parents.
9 (Wed) Doctor’s visit then meets Terence Rigby, actor.
11 (Fri) Morning first reading of D.
15 (Tue) Morning Richard Imison, BBC producer. Early evening AB.
16 (Wed) Morning rehearsal of D. Lunch AB.
19 (Sat) Morning Alec Guinness.
20 (Sun) Lunch MB.
23 (Wed) Afternoon involved with D.
27 (Sun) Meets his parents at London Airport on their return from Tel Aviv.
28 (Mon) Flies to Edinburgh, stays at the George Hotel.
March
Contributes to National Book League’s Celebrities’ Choice (BR: H2A).
2 (Wed) Returns to London.
4 (Fri) Early evening sees PH to discuss H.
7 (Mon) Lunch RS.
9 (Wed) At the Ald, Danish film interview.
11 (Fri) Early evening PH. Last performance of H.
14 (Mon) Morning Jean-Luc Godard. Interview BBC World Service.
17 (Thur) Evening Penelope Mortimer and Clive Donner. Co, The Lover and
The Examination paperback edition: H second edition also pub-
lished (BR: J27, A14c, 20b).
19 (Sat) Lunch Alec Guinness.
20 (Sun) Evening watches BBC production of Turgenev’s A Month in the
Country.
21 (Mon) 5pm Heathcote Williams (HWi), writer and actor.
24 (Thur) Evening premiere of Alfie film, then party.
25 (Fri) Visits Worthing.
27 (Sun) Sees the English Stage Society’s production of HWi’s first play
The Local Stigmatic RC.
30 (Wed) Evening JLs.
April
Final draft of The Quiller Memorandum marked up for printing.
1 (Fri) Arts Council.
3 (Sun) Evening Hampstead Theatre Club.
11 (Mon) Sees Harley Granville-Barker’s The Voysey Inheritance RC.
12 (Tue) Afternoon Britt Ekland, actress.
13 (Wed) To Bournemouth.
16 (Sat) Flies to Berlin to visit locations for The Quiller Memorandum.
18 (Mon) Returns from Berlin.
20 (Wed) 6pm nets.
23 (Sat) Visits the Bakewells.
25 (Mon) Afternoon rehearsal.
26 (Tue) Evening film of H.
27 (Wed) 5:30pm reception for filming of The Quiller Memorandum, River
Room, Savoy.
28 (Thur) Meets with T.S.R. Boase, distinguished art historian, President of
Magdalen College, Oxford.
29 (Fri) Screen test at Pinewood Studios.
May
6 (Fri) Lunch Nicholas Mosley, author of A, then parents.
7 (Sat) Afternoon plays cricket.
9 (Mon) Berlin shooting The Quiller Memorandum.
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10 (Tue) 6pm PEN dinner Cock Tavern, Fleet Street.

12 (Wed) The Room and DW first British Methuen edition (BR: A22).
25 (Wed) 5pm PH.
June
Becomes Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
1 (Wed) Worthing.
2 (Thur) Moves from Worthing to London.
7 (Tue) Moves from temporary Kensington residence.
9 (Thur) 40th anniversary of parents’ wedding.
11 (Sat) To Ireland. Evening GV.
14 (Tue) Back from Ireland.
16–21 (Thur–Tue) England v West Indies test match at Lord’s with on
Friday HW, on Saturday MG.
20 (Mon) (Short talk) ‘What Makes a Dramatist’ BBC (BR: J26).
A ‘Georgina Baird’ Corby, Northants writes telling HP
that she had a ‘frontal leuchtong operation’ as a child.
This has ‘taken the love out of my heart ... life is to be
passed as a vegetable’. She adds, ‘You have the gift to
make a play out of a beautiful young girl turned into a
useless failure, not by disease but by modern science.’
Her letter is ‘a desperate effort to make use of a wasted
life’ (HPA). Possibly this became the creative impulse for
A Kind of Alaska (AKA).
24 (Fri) Attends son’s school sports activities. Evening Dramatists
Club dinner, Garrick Club.
28 (Tue) Late afternoon JL.
30 (Thur) Late afternoon Nicholas Mosley, JL.
July
1 (Fri) Arts Council. Late afternoon reading of A.
4 (Mon) Shooting of A. 5:30pm PH.
6 (Wed) Morning Pinewood sees The Quiller Memorandum.
7 (Thur) Ald meeting.
8 (Fri) Lunch VM.
9 (Sat) Oxford.
14 (Thur) Morning Pinewood Studios.
15 (Fri) Participant Line-Up Review programme, BBC2 (BR: K11).
16 (Sat) Afternoon plays cricket.
22 (Fri) Daniel goes on school break.
25 (Mon) Lunch MB: Alcove.
26 (Tue) Morning GV.
29 (Fri) 6pm Christopher Morahan (CM), director, and MB. 7pm views
A rushes.
August
1 (Mon) Working on A, filmed on location Cobham, Syon House and
Twickenham Studios, July through September.
3 (Wed) Stratford-upon-Avon.
8 (Mon) Rehearsal of C for TV production.
9 (Tue) Sees DW at the Arts Theatre.
11 (Thur) Morning Grafton Studio for rehearsals of radio production of
Night School.
12 (Fri) Morning CM.
14 (Sun) Night School recorded (BR: W15.3).
17 (Wed) Afternoon Pinewood Studios, views rough cut of The Quiller
Memorandum.
19 (Fri) Morning BBC hears playback of Night School. Afternoon run-
through of C.
22 (Mon) C run-through.
25 (Thur) Flies to Paris for first reading of H production.
26 (Fri) London. Afternoon HP, RS view C.
31 (Wed) Cast assembly of A. Afternoon working on C.
Autumn
Interview John Russell Taylor, ‘Accident’ (Sight and Sound, XXXV: 178–9; BR:
G19).
September
1 (Thur) Working on C TV recording.
2 (Fri) Evening participates in public meeting on ‘Free thought in
future’ at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square.
5 (Mon) National Film Theatre (NFT) sees The Grapes of Wrath.
6 (Tue) 5:30pm party for A cast and crew.
8 (Thur) Involved with three playbacks of C.
11 (Sun) Parents.
12 (Mon) Afternoon watches the film of C. Evening A.
14 (Wed) Tenth wedding anniversary.
20 (Tue) To Oxford for rehearsal.
22 (Thur) 6:30pm A with JL.
25 (Sun) Night School on radio, 3P, directed by GV. Evening poetry reading.
28 (Wed) Morning MB.
29 (Thur) To Paris for H production.
October
2 (Sun) London.
4 (Tue) SB evening Cheltenham Festival with MG, IH.
5 (Wed) 5:30pm CM: Dorchester.
6 (Thur) Paris for H.
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8 (Sat) First Paris performance H.

12 (Wed) London.
15 (Sat) Night School on 3P.
18 (Tue) Lunch Aidan Crawley, journalist, television executive.
19 (Wed) Lunch parents.
20 (Thur) Lunch RS, then to TV Centre.
21 (Fri) Meets Lawrence Bensky: The Paris Review, 10 (Autumn/Fall 1966):
13–37 (BR: G20).
25 (Tue) C on ITV.
31 (Mon) Starts TB rehearsals.
November
1 (Tue) Joe Orton party.
3 (Thur) 8pm A viewing.
6 (Sun) 4:30pm SA reading.
10 (Thur) The Quiller Memorandum UK release.
12 (Sat) Late morning Ken Tynan.
15 (Tue) 10:15am CBE investiture at Buckingham Palace. Evening DP.
17 (Thur) SA rehearsal.
21 (Mon) SA rehearsal.
23 (Wed) SA recording.
24 (Thur) H run-through.
27 (Sun) Interview, Lively Arts programme, BBC Home Service, broadcast
(BR: J28).
30 (Wed) Recording of TB.
December
Alain Schifres interview: HP ‘Caretaker of Britain’s New Theater’ (Réalités, 193:
n.p.; BR: G21).
3 (Sat) Lunch Ken Tynan.
4–5 (Sun–Mon) H dress rehearsal Ald.
6 (Tue) A trailer.
9 (Fri) 11:45am Ken Tynan and Roman Polanski, film director.
Lunch DP. 6pm JB: Waldorf. After H performance HW.
10 (Sat) Day with parents.
12 (Mon) Afternoon sees SA Ealing Street Theatre.
13 (Tue) Flies to Boston.
19 (Mon) First night H Boston.
1967
Film A released 1967, directed by JL, with HP in the role of Mr Bell, a televi-
sion producer. Special Offer in Arnold P. Hinchliffe’s Harold Pinter published.
‘Beckett’ (Beckett at Sixty: A Festschrift, edited by John Calder; BR: A25, E11).
January
1 (Sun) HP interview (New York Times, Section 2: 1; BR: G22). Flies
from Boston to New York.
3–4 (Tue–Wed) Works with PH and PW. H preview.
5 (Thur) First New York production of H Music Box Theatre.
7–27 (Sat–Fri) New York meetings including PW, Penelope and John
Mortimer, Arnold Weissberger, prominent theatrical law-
yer, Jack Gelber, dramatist, AS, Donald McWhinnie, direc-
tor, John Gielgud ( JGi).
February
3 (Fri) Evening Park Avenue screening of A.
4 (Sat) Meets Saul Bellow, Harold Clurman, New York journalist. Then
Tony di Gesù, photographer. Evening New York Poetry Center.
6 (Mon) Lunch Norman Mailer. SA televised, BBC2, directed by CM. Film
A released UK; wins Cannes Jury Prize and other awards.
10 (Fri) DP.
11 (Sat) Philip Larkin correspondence (HPA).
13 (Mon) A Night Out televised, BBC2.
14 (Tue) Evening Peter Shaffer.
18 (Sat) Flies to Toronto for the day to meet a childhood friend, Moishe
[Morris] Wernick (MW).
20 (Mon) TB broadcast on BBC2, Theatre 625 series, directed by Charles
Jarrott, HP as Stott. Meets JGi.
25 (Sat) Interview New Yorker, 43: 34–6; BR: G23.
March
1 (Wed) Meets JW. Evening Peter Shaffer.
7 (Tue) H initially performed in Boston then New York.
13 (Mon) Sees film of Ulysses at the Coronet Theater, 59th and 3rd Street.
18 (Sat) H cast party.
26 (Sun) Tony Awards reception.
27 (Mon) Flies from Kennedy to Toronto to visit MW. Stays until Wednesday
then returns to New York.
April
6 (Thur) Noon lunch Lynn Redgrave.
10 (Mon) Rehearsals. Evening Poetry Center.
11 (Tue) Afternoon rehearsals.
12 (Wed) Meets with JL.
14 (Fri) Sees A screening. H successful at Sarajevo Small and Experimental
Theatre International Festival: production receives ‘The Golden
Mask’ – the only Festival award.
17 (Mon) Afternoon rehearsal with RS.
20 (Thur) Afternoon rehearsals. Evening Jacqueline Kennedy dinner party.
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24 (Mon) Afternoon rehearsal of H: VM, Ian Holm replacements take over.

26 (Wed) Evening Sam Spiegel (SS).
29 (Sat) Flies to Barbados.
30 (Sun) Flies to Spice Island, Grenada.
Spring
‘The Error of Alarm’, ‘The Table’ and ‘Afternoon’ (Poetry Northwest, VIII: 1:
3–5; BR: C12).
May
11 (Thur)
Flies to Barbados then New York.
12 (Fri)London.
14 (Sun)After lunch RS, then DP.
15 (Mon)Afternoon JW.
16 (Tue)Lunch HW.
17 (Wed)Auditions St Martin’s Theatre with RS.
19 (Fri)Early afternoon LO, Ken Tynan.
22 (Mon)Morning auditions. Lunch Arnold Goodman, eminent London
solicitor and advisor.
24 (Wed) Auditions Duke of York’s Theatre.
25 (Thur) Lunch JLs.
26 (Fri) Lunch Ken Tynan. Evening sees Alan Ayckbourn’s (AAy) Relatively
Speaking.
June
1 (Thur)Afternoon ME. Evening sees Strindberg’s The Dance of Death.
2 (Fri) Morning JW. Afternoon Ken Tynan.
5 (Mon) Evening C film dinner.
7 (Wed) Evening sees Joe Orton’s Crimes of Passion RC.
9 (Fri) Parents’ wedding anniversary. Dinner Savoy. Afternoon TV
Centre for A Night Out.
12 (Mon) First rehearsal The Man in the Glass Booth.
15 (Thur) Evening Old Vic (OV) sees Tom Stoppard’s (TS) Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead. TP and Other Plays, first Methuen edition
(BR: A32a).
19 (Mon) Evening Alan Clodd, publisher and book collector.
20 (Tue) Evening JW.
30 (Fri) Daniel’s sports day and Late Night Line-Up party.
July
Interview WNDT-TV, Channel 13, New York. Michael Billington (MBi)
interview, HP and RS, BBC TV (BR: K12).
1 (Sat) Sees LO in Strindberg’s The Dance of Death.
4 (Tue) Evening with parents sees Fiddler on the Roof.
11 (Tue) The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by HP, opens Nottingham.
26 (Wed) Interview John Bowen, 3P, broadcast (BR: J29).
27 (Thur) Opening night RS’s The Man in the Glass Booth, St Martin’s
Theatre (in October 1968, HP directs Broadway production).
Summer
William Packard, HP interview First Stage, VI: 2: 82 (BR: G25).
August
7 (Mon) Lunch John Frankenheimer, American filmmaker.
10 (Thur) Afternoon International PEN (IP) Awards.
11 (Fri) Understudy run-through, then to Stratford-upon-Avon to join VM.
16 (Wed) Opening night of Macbeth with VM.
18 (Fri) Afternoon Joe Orton funeral.
21 (Mon) Evening The Man in the Glass Booth.
22 (Tue) Lunch JW: Savoy. Early evening Alan Clodd.
23 (Wed) Stratford-upon-Avon.
28 (Mon) London.
29 (Tue) Sees Jean-Claude van Itallie’s America Hurrah.
Autumn
Writes Landscape (L) for the RSC, refuses to accept cuts demanded by the
Lord Chamberlain as censor of stage plays.
September
5 (Tue) Late morning Harold Cohen, illustrator, designer limited
edition of H.
6 (Wed) John Frankenheimer.
7 (Thur) Stratford-upon-Avon.
10 (Sun) HP interview New York Times, Section 2: 3 (BR: G27)
11 (Mon) Mid-afternoon Kathleen Halton, Vogue journalist.
13 (Wed) Mid-morning rehearsal. Afternoon PEN meeting.
14 (Thur) 3pm flies to New York.
16–27 (Sat–Wed) Involved with BP production.
27 (Wed) London.
28 (Thur) Early afternoon JW.
October
1 (Sun) Charles Marowitz interview New York Times, Section 2: 36–7, 89–90,
92, 94. Kathleen Halton interview (Vogue, 194, 236, 239, 245; BR:
G27, 28).
3 (Tue) First New York production BP directed by AS.
4 (Wed) Parents, Hove.
5 (Thur) Meets actress Rita Tushingham.
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6 (Fri) Lunch RS: Savoy Grill. Evening JB.

7 (Sat) Stratford-upon-Avon.
11 (Wed) Early evening Methuen party.
17 (Tue) Afternoon plays squash. Early evening JW.
20 (Fri) Evening rehearsal.
22 (Sun) John Mortimer party.
24 (Tue), 26 (Thur), 30 (Mon) Plays squash.
25 (Wed) 6pm drinks with HW: Marquis of Granby.
BP rehearsed in Paris.
27 (Fri) Stratford-upon-Avon.
29 (Sun) DP lunch party.
November
1 (Wed) BP performed Cambridge.
2 (Thur) Sees Chekhov’s The Three Sisters at the National Theatre (NT).
3 (Fri) Stratford-upon-Avon, sees Romeo and Juliet.
6 (Mon) Parents, London then squash.
7 (Tue) Afternoon Cuban Embassy. 5:30pm Clive Donner.
8 (Wed) Lunch parents. Then The Glass Booth rehearsal. 5:30pm MG.
10 (Fri) Exeter to see A.
11 (Sat) Birmingham
14 (Tue) Lunch Paul Rogers.
21 (Tue) Lunch PW. 5pm B.S. Johnson.
22 (Wed) Lunch Arnold Goodman: Savoy. 5:30pm John Osborne.
23 (Thur) 5pm Ludwig Rowohlt (HP’s German agent): Connaught Hotel.
24 (Fri) Flies to Helsinki, meets VM.
27 (Mon) London.
28 (Tue) Afternoon squash. 5pm JW. 7:30pm PW.
29 (Wed) Meets various comic actresses including Dandy Nichols and Hylda
Baker.
30 (Thur) Writing.
December
1 (Fri) 2pm squash. Evening dinner The Glass Booth cast.
3 (Sun) Morning John Osborne, Alan Bennett.
5 (Tue) Late morning Dandy Nichols.
6 (Wed) Early evening PH.
7 (Thur) Squash. BP opens in Paris.
9 (Sat) 5:30pm Bakewells. 6:30pm a special tribute to JL.
10 (Sun) Hove.
11 (Mon) Sends flowers to Mary Ure (actress, RS’s wife).
13 (Wed) Evening JLs.
14 (Thur) Evening HW.
15 (Fri) JW for tea.
27 (Wed) Sees Strindberg’s Dance of Death.

30 (Sat) Hove.
1968
Directs Man in the Glass Booth, St Martin’s Theatre. ‘The Islands of Aran Seen
from the Moher Cliffs’ broadsheet. In ‘The Actor’, a CBS television special. TP
as short story in Joan Kahn (ed.), The Edge of the Chair. ‘Kullus’ (Poems, 22–4).
New Poems 1967, edited with John Fuller and Peter Redgrove, Hutchinson.
Contributes to Authors Take Sides on Vietnam, ed. Cecil Woolf and John
Bagguley, Peter Owen. Interview with B.S. Johnson, ‘Evacuees’, The Pinter
Review (1994): 8–13 (BR: C13, W22, D4, H3, 3A, G83).
Early in 1968, visits Paris.
January
1 (Mon) In Worthing.
7 (Sun) Correspondence with Edna O’Brien (EO), who praises Silence (S);
Terence Rattigan and others regarding S and L (HPA).
29 (Tue) Daniel’s tenth birthday.
February
21 (Wed) H performed Chicago.
March
20 (Wed) 11:15–11:45pm participant Contrasts, BBC1 (BR: K14).
April
Kathleen Tynan interview, Part I, Evening Standard (25 April 1968): 7. Part II:
Evening Standard (26 April 1968): 8 (BR: G30).
18 (Thur) Tribute ‘This Knight Has Been Unruly – Memories of Sir Donald
Wolfit’ (The Listener, 79: 501) (BR: E13).
25 (Thur) L broadcast as radio play, 3P, directed by GV, with Peggy Ashcroft
(PA) as Beth.
May
Mac published by Emanuel Wax for Pendragon Press.
July
L Emanuel Wax edition published, Pendragon Press (BR: E14a, A27a).
30 (Tue) Poems, first edition, first issue, published Enitharmon Press (BR:
I3a¹(i)).
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September
26 (Thur) Theatres Act came into effect, abolished Lord Chamberlain’s
Office, removes hindrance to stage production of L.
October
Karnac publish H limited edition (BR: A20e).
10 (Thur) Stage versions of TB and TP open as double bill, Eastside Playhouse,
New York, directed by James ( Jim) Hammerstein. While in New
York, HP meets Barbara Stanton (then Barbara Condos), ‘beautiful
New York socialite’. She and HP became lovers ‘for many years’
(The Daily Telegraph, 9 January 2010: 3).
11 (Fri) New Greek government closes H in Athens. HP doesn’t want
any further production in Greece while the present government
remains (HPA).
27 (Fri) Patricia Bosworth interview New York Times, Section D: 3 (BR: G31).
November
‘Mac’ (Harper’s Bazaar, 102: 234–5) (BR: E14b).
December
Rewriting S.
9 (Mon) In New York. Film version of BP released.
24 (Tue) Judith Crist interview (Look, 77–8, 80, 83; BR: G32).
1969
January
7 (Tue) Observer lunch.
8 (Wed) Morning squash.
10 (Fri) Morning squash. 6pm L.P. Hartley.
12 (Sun) Evening PW.
14 (Tue) Lunch PH. 5:30pm JB.
15 (Wed) RS.
16 (Thur) Albee’s A Delicate Balance Ald.
18 (Sat) 5:30pm Edward Albee.
20 (Mon) First rehearsal of H, Watford.
24 (Fri) Morning PA.
25 (Sat) Afternoon JL.
27 (Mon) Draft with revisions of GB, labelled ‘for Joseph Losey’, bound (HPA).
February
1 (Sat) Evening IH’s party.
3 (Mon) Late Night Line-Up BBC2, 11pm (BR: K16).
4–15 (Tue–Sat) H Palace Theatre, Watford, HP as Lenny.

6 (Thur) Night Hampstead Theatre.
7 (Fri) HW, PW, PH see H.
15 (Sat) Morning nets. Party for final performance of H.
17 (Mon) Parents.
21 (Fri) 11am nets. 6pm PH. 7:30pm sees Edward Bond’s Narrow
Road to the Deep North RC.
24 (Mon) Afternoon nets.
25 (Tue) Morning nets. Evening Hamlet Roundhouse.
28 (Fri) Dinner PH.
March
1 (Sat) Discusses H film on Release, BBC2 (BR: K17).
2 (Sun) New York: at the Plaza Hotel with Barbara Stanton.
6 (Thur) Talks to Michael Dean (Listener, 81: 2084: 312; BR: G33).
13 (Thur) London.
16 (Sun) Lunch David Jones (DJ).
18 (Tue) 5pm JL.
19 (Wed) Night initial rehearsal.
20 (Thur) Brighton PH, DJ.
21 (Fri) 5:30pm Clive Donner.
24 (Mon) Morning squash. Afternoon Night.
26 (Wed) Morning TB filming.
28–29 (Fri–Sat) Mixed Doubles (BR: A32).
April
1 (Tue) Mixed Doubles lunch. Afternoon PH Ald.
3 (Thur) Lunch DP. Evening Mixed Doubles.
5 (Sat) Boat race lunch.
6 (Sun) NBC Experiment in TV (USA), sketches and short ani-
mated films: The Black and the White, The Last to Go,
Request Stop, The Applicant and Trouble in the Works. HP
provides some of the voices.
9 (Wed) Afternoon auditions for L and S. Sketch Night staged as
part of an eight-sketch revue, Mixed Doubles: An Entertain-
ment on Marriage, Comedy Theatre, London, directed by
Alexander Doré (BR: W11.7, 30 (2)(3)).
10–12 (Thur–Sat) Lord’s, nets.
15 (Tue) Lunch JW. 3pm Clive Donner. 7pm CM.
19 (Sat) David Storey’s In Celebration RC.
22 (Tue) Evening 80th birthday celebratory concert for Dr Alfred
Kalmus, founder London branch of Universal Editions,
at the forefront of contemporary music, at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall (QEH).
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25 (Fri) Noon John Whiting Award ceremony for Howard Brenton’s

Christie in Love.
26 (Sat) Lord’s.
30 (Wed) 12:30pm cricket lesson. 5pm parents. 6pm Mixed Doubles.
May
7 (Wed) Attends performance of Pierre Boulez’s ‘Pli Selon Pli’ Royal Festi-
val Hall (RFH).
11 (Sun) Afternoon plays cricket.
16 (Fri) Article ‘Memories of Cricket’ (Daily Telegraph Magazine, 25–6) (BR:
E15).
19 (Mon) L and S first rehearsal.
25 (Sun) Afternoon Lord’s, Middlesex v Northants.
26 (Mon) Morning L rehearsal.
29 (Thur) Morning S rehearsal. Evening Mixed Doubles.
June
2–3 (Mon–Tue) MCC v West Indies.
3 (Tue) Meets actors Terence Rigby and Bryan Forbes.
5 (Thur) Hove.
6 (Fri) L and S. Lunch PH, PA.
10 (Tue) 5:30pm ME. 7pm HW.
11 (Wed) L and S. Lunch PH.
12 (Thur) Lunch VM. 7:30pm Oxford dinner for John Fuller, poet
and academic.
13 (Fri) Oxford lunch Francis Warner (FW).
14 (Sat) Stratford-upon-Avon matinee The Winter’s Tale. Stays
with PH in Wallingford.
16–17 (Mon–Tue) L rehearsals.
19 (Thur) Evening Troilus and Cressida.
22–23 (Sun–Mon) Dress rehearsals Ald.
24 (Tue) First Ald preview.
26 (Thur) England v West Indies.
27 (Fri) Evening Ald.
28 (Sat) Test match. Mixed Doubles last night.
30 (Mon) Test match. Evening Ald.
July
2 (Wed) First night L and S produced as double bill, RSC, Ald, directed
by PH.
3 (Thur) Lunch parents.
4 (Fri) 6:30pm meeting C filming.
10 (Thur) Lunch Arnold Weissberger, Francis Bacon: Waldorf. 8:30pm Francis
Bacon Ald.
12 (Sat) 11:30am Peter Gill, director.

15 (Tue) 2:30pm Obscenity conference Wigmore Hall.
16 (Wed) Lunch PH. 6:30pm sees Midnight Cowboy.
17 (Thur) 7:30pm Harold Hobson.
18 (Fri) 5:30pm John Schlesinger, director. 8pm dinner JW.
21 (Mon) 1:30pm flies to Paris, VM to Leeds.
22 (Tue) VM’s 40th birthday. HP meets SB.
23 (Wed) London.
24 (Thur) England v New Zealand Lord’s. 1pm lunch Alan Ross, poet and
editor, and Len Hutton. L and S, also Night first edition, Methuen
(BR: A28).
28 (Mon) Lunch John Schlesinger.
30 (Wed) Ald. After performance PA.
August
1 (Fri) Dramatists Club dinner.
2 (Sat) S BBC Radio 3.
3 (Sun) Flies to Monte Carlo to SS’s yacht.
9 (Sat) Visits Mortimers, south of France.
12 (Tue) London.
14 (Thur) 11am Joan Bakewell ( JBa). In The Centre of the Bed, JBa
writes ‘in 1969, Harold and I had met in melancholy
mood to end an intense affair that had lasted over seven
years, but which had then foundered in distress and con-
fusion’ (136). 9pm HW.
15 (Fri) William (Bill) Gaskill’s production of Congreve’s The
Double Dealer RC.
18 (Mon) 8:30pm Tony Richardson’s Hamlet film.
19 (Tue) 3:30pm records BBC Late Night Line-Up.
21 (Thur) Filming.
23 (Sat) Dieter Giesing, German theatre director: in 1964 he
directed Co in Munich.
25 (Mon) Afternoon Ealing Studios, participates in projected film
about cricket with Tom Baptiste and others.
28–29 (Thur–Fri) Filming.
30 (Sat) Takes L and S cast to dinner: La Terraza.
September
4 (Thur) 9:15am ME.
6 (Sat) Gillette Cup Final Lord’s, Yorkshire v Derbyshire.
7 (Sun) C reading. Afternoon plays cricket Stratford-upon-Avon. Stays at
Alveston Manor Hotel.
8 (Mon) Judi Dench as Viola Twelfth Night.
9 (Sun) London and run-through of C radio performance.
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11 (Thur) Records radio version of C. Patricia Brent interview on Today, BBC

Radio 4. 10:55pm Late Night Line-Up, participant BBC2 (BR: J30,
K18).
13 (Sat) Howard Brenton’s Revenge RC.
15 (Mon) Night BBC Radio 3.
16 (Tue) Evening film The Lion in Winter.
17 (Wed) C opens in Paris.
19 (Fri) Evening Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Magistrate Cambridge Theatre.
24 (Fri) Evening Mortimers.
27 (Sat) Parents.
29 (Mon) C on the radio.
October
1 (Wed) Evening Feliks Topolski, distinguished expressionist artist, and
Marian Topolski.
7 (Tue) Ian McKellen as Richard II, Piccadilly Theatre.
10 (Fri) Afternoon Feliks Topolski.
14 (Tue) Evening HW, MG.
16 (Thur) Paris, sees C.
18 (Sat) London.
24 (Fri) Noon RS.
26 (Sun) The Lover GV adaptation, BBC Radio 4.
27 (Mon) Visits PA in Sussex.
28 (Tue) 4pm Daniel Salem, HP’s first French translator.
30 (Thur) Pinewood Studios, meets PH.
31 (Fri) 7:30pm Dramatists Club dinner.
November
3 (Mon) Lunch HW: Volunteer pub. 3pm PW. 4:30pm IH. 7pm dinner Hans
Lietzau, German theatre director: Waldorf. 8pm L and S, then
meets PA.
5 (Wed) Evening sees The Maltese Falcon.
6 (Thur) 1pm John Murphy, Irish dramatist: Savoy. 7pm PW. JBa inter-
view (Listener, 82: 2119: 630–1; BR: G34).
10 (Mon) Morning nets.
11 (Tue) 1:30pm Trevor Nunn, director.
15 (Sat) Morning nets.
17 (Mon) David Storey’s The Contractor RC.
18 (Tue) 5:30pm ME.
19 (Wed) Literary luncheon Crystal Room Dorchester Hotel: meets Noël
Coward and Christina Foyle. 8:30pm L and S cast party.
21 (Fri) 6pm JL, then Theatre Upstairs RC Peter Gill’s Over Gardens Out.
24 (Mon) Reception 10 Downing Street.
25 (Tue) Flies to Berlin.

26 (Wed) Flies to Paris.
28 (Fri) London.
29 (Sat) Nets.
December
3 (Wed) Night Out playback with CM.
4 (Thur) Evening Susan Sontag’s Duet for Cannibals.
5 (Fri) 11am Arts Council meeting. 5:30pm Gabriel Josipovici, author.
8 (Mon) Dublin.
10 (Wed) London.
12 (Fri) Evening John Webster’s The White Devil NT. Then Noël Coward
party.
17 (Wed) French translator of L and S, Eric Kahane.
18 (Thur) 3:30pm JL.
19 (Fri) Frank Norman’s Insideout RC. Meets Francis Bacon.
22 (Mon) Evening parents.
23 (Tue) Preview Room sees L.
27 (Sat) Morning nets. Evening Saunders’ Sancho Panza NT.
29 (Mon) Flies to Hamburg for Hans Lietzau production of L and S.
31 (Wed) London. Evening New Year’s Eve party.
1970
BP film released, directed by William Friedkin.
January
1 (Thur) Bill Friedkin.
6 (Tue) Afternoon nets.
8 (Thur) 10:30am Thames TV JL interview. 2:30pm Arts Council meeting.
9 (Fri) 8:30pm final L and S.
10 (Sat) Morning nets. Evening L and S open in Hamburg.
25 (Sun) Initial drafts adaptation of Aidan Higgins’ Langrishe, Go Down
(LGD).
28 (Wed) Morning nets.
29 (Thur) Evening John Mortimer’s Come As You Are New Theatre.
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February
2 (Mon) Works on LGD. Evening BP Radio 4.
5 (Thur) Lunch ME. 6pm Bill Gaskill.
8 (Sun) To Heathrow Airport: sees parents off to Israel.
10 (Tue) Lunch PA.
12 (Thur) BP opens Academy cinema.
18 (Wed) Revival Trevor Nunn’s RSC production of The Revenger’s Tragedy.
20 (Fri) Evening BBC2 ‘Pinter People’.
23 (Mon) 8pm GV.
24 (Tue) Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya RC.
25 (Wed) 3pm Night Out on the radio. 5pm collects parents from
Heathrow. ‘Personal Anthology’ of poems, selected and read VM,
HP, on ‘With Great Pleasure: The Pinters’, BBC Radio 4, recorded:
broadcast 24 May 1970 (BR: J31).
March
5 (Thur) 2pm Julie Christie, discusses GB casting. Evening Women
In Love film.
9 (Mon) 1pm GV BBC.
10 (Tue) 2:30pm Julie Christie.
11 (Wed) Evening Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya RC.
12 (Thur) 1:30pm Julie Christie.
14 (Sat) Morning nets. Evening PH.
17 (Tue) 5:30pm Shield Productions meeting (established as a
company to produce new plays in the West End). HP
one of the patrons with David Mercer (DM), CM, JW and
Terence Baker, theatrical agent and producer.
18 (Wed) 7pm Bernard Miles, actor and director.
19 (Thur) Lunch RS. 6pm HW, MG.
24 (Tue) Flies to New York.
25–28 (Wed–Sat) L and S.
29 (Sun) London.
30 (Mon) Oxford for first performance of DM’s Flint with VM.
April
2 (Thur) London. First New York L production in double bill with S, Forum
Theater, Lincoln Center, directed by Peter Gill.
4 (Sat) Morning nets. 7pm PW.

7 (Tue) Morning squash Ronald Harwood (RH).
9 (Thus) Wolverhampton, sees VM perform.
18 (Sat) London. Morning nets. Evening EO party.
25 (Sat) Afternoon nets.
26 (Sun) Plays cricket. Letter New York Times, 180 (BR: F3).
30 (Thur) Morning squash RH. 1:30pm VM.
May
1 (Fri) London Flint preview.
2 (Sat) Morning nets with Daniel.
3 (Sun) Plays cricket for Gaieties (Ga).
5 (Tue) London opening of Flint Criterion Theatre with VM.
6 (Wed) Plays cricket.
11 (Mon) Hove. Evening Shield meeting.
13 (Wed) Morning SA recording BBC.
14 (Thur) HWi’s AC/DC RC.
15 (Fri) Morning recording SA.
16 (Sat) Nets.
17 (Sun) Plays cricket.
18 (Mon) Morning Shield meeting. 5pm GB meeting.
20 (Wed) 3pm SA on the radio. 8pm Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
reading.
21 (Thur) Morning nets. 4:30pm JW. 5pm Shield meeting.
22 (Fri) 12:30pm C lunch.
23 (Sat) Flint.
24 (Sun) Plays cricket. 10:10pm radio poetry reading.
27 (Wed) 3pm GB casting meeting.
28 (Thur) 5:30pm PH.
29 (Fri) GB meeting. 7:30pm sees Chekhov’s The Seagull, Moscow Arts
production, Ald.
30 (Sat) Nets.
June
1 (Mon)Shield meeting.
2 (Tue)10:30am sound version The Servant recording.
3 (Wed)Hamburg. 5–7pm British Council cocktail party.
4 (Thur)
Awarded German Shakespeare Prize; acceptance speech University
of Hamburg. Subsequently published in English and German
(BR: E17). Evening returns to London.
5 (Fri) Dinner VM.
10 (Wed) Morning works with JL on GB. Afternoon nets.
12 (Fri) Evening HW.
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15 (Mon) JL works on GB.
16 (Tue) Morning nets. Afternoon Mermaid Theatre for discus-
sion.
17 (Wed) England v Rest of the World at Lord’s.
18 (Thur) 3:30pm casting meeting with JL.
19 (Fri) Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, directed by PH, Glynde-
bourne.
20 (Sat) Lord’s.
21 (Sun) Plays cricket. Evening watches World Cup Final on TV.
22–23 (Mon–Tue) Lord’s.
24 (Wed) Lunch Willis Hall, dramatist. Afternoon plays cricket.
27 (Sat) 5:30pm casting GB with JL.
29–30 (Mon–Tue) Casting GB with JL.
30 (Tue) Evening The Merchant of Venice, NT production,
Cambridge Theatre.
July
2 (Thur) Afternoon GB reading.
3 (Fri) David Storey’s Home RC.
4 (Sat) Afternoon nets.
5 (Sun) Plays cricket. Late afternoon JL.
7 (Tue) Evening JL.
8 (Wed) Hove, then visits HW.
9 (Thur) Plays cricket.
10 (Fri) Afternoon Daniel’s school sports day.
11 (Sat) 3:30pm GV. Evening DP.
13 (Mon) GB shooting in Norfolk.
16 (Thur) S on BBC.
17 (Fri) Plays cricket.
19 (Sun) 11:30pm S.
20 (Mon) Morning squash RH. Afternoon JW.
21 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch Barry Foster. 6pm AB.
22 (Wed) Morning Elstree with RH. Dinner VM: Tiberio.
23 (Thur) Norfolk, filming.
25 (Sat) Plays cricket. Final Flint night.
27 (Mon) Paris.
30 (Thur) SB, BB.
31 (Fri) London.
August
2 (Sun) 2pm S on the radio.
3–7 (Mon–Fri) TP auditions.
7 (Fri) Evening parents.
8 (Sat) Morning Timothy West, actor.

10 (Mon) Evening James Hammerstein discusses Hammerstein’s direction
of stage production of TP and TB Duchess Theatre. Meets Eddie
Kulukundis, theatre director, arts patron.
11 (Tue) 4:30pm Eddie Kulukundis.
12 (Wed) 5:30pm Lois Gordon, critic. 6:15pm John Russell Taylor, critic.
13 (Thur) Oval, England v Rest of the World.
14 (Fri) Evening Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist RC.
16 (Sun) Plays cricket. Evening TP.
17 (Mon) First reading of TP and TB.
18 (Tue) Norfolk for GB locations.
24 (Mon) 1:30pm JW.
25 (Tue) 5:30pm rehearsals TP and TB. 7pm John Wood, actor.
26 (Wed) Morning Eileen Diss, set designer (ED).
31 (Mon) Afternoon plays cricket.
September
1 (Tue) Afternoon TP and TB.
2 (Wed) AS.
3 (Thur) Morning TP and TB cast photograph. Evening HW, GV.
4 (Fri) Afternoon run-through of TP and TB.
5 (Sat) Gillette Cup final: Sussex v Lancashire, Lord’s.
7 (Mon) Norfolk, filming GB.
10 (Thur) Working on TB. Evening TP.
11 (Fri) Morning DJ and Humphrey Burton, director and producer. Dress
rehearsal Duchess Theatre, TP and TB.
12 (Sat) First preview TP and TB.
16 (Wed) Noon ED. 2pm interview with Jacky Gillott on Options, BBC
Radio 4, recorded, broadcast 20 September 1970 (BR: J32).
17 (Thur) TP and TB as double bill, opens at Duchess Theatre, London,
22 (Tue) Warwick for GB.
23 (Wed) Morning ED. Late evening Barry Foster.
24 (Thur) Squash RH, then TP and TB.
25 (Fri) Honorary degree, DLitt from the University of Reading.
28 (Mon) 10:30am squash James Hammerstein. Afternoon TP television
rehearsal. 5pm ED. The Servant on BBC Radio 4.
29 (Tue) Marriage of JL and Patricia Mohan (theatrical adaptor) in King’s
Lynn.
30 (Wed) Afternoon Mermaid Theatre for Joyce’s Exiles (E) audition and pro-
duction meeting. Evening with HW at poetry reading, Haverstock
Arms, Belsize Park.
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October
1 (Thur) Private view of Louis de Wet art exhibition.
2 (Fri) Morning squash RH. 7:30pm Shield meeting DM.
4 (Sun) Cricket.
6 (Tue) Afternoon E auditions.
7 (Wed) GB in Warwick. Meets Eddie Kulukundis.
9 (Fri) GB. 4pm Mermaid Theatre for E.
10 (Sat) HP’s 40th birthday.
12 (Mon) First E reading.
14 (Wed) 6:30pm TP and TB.
16 (Fri) GB screening in Warwick.
18 (Sun) Mermaid Theatre, poetry reading.
26 (Mon) The Servant, GV radio adaptation BBC Radio 4.
29 (Thur) Evening watches BBC1 production of Ingmar Bergman’s The
Lie.
30 (Fri) Trevor Nunn hears from PH ‘that a [new HP] play is germinating
and is going to happen’ (HPA).
31 (Sat) 2:30pm GB.
November
10–11 (Tue–Wed) E previews Mermaid Theatre.
12 (Thur) E opening night (a Shield production).
15 (Sun) Alan Haydock interview on Options, BBC Radio 4, broadcast
(BR: J33).
18 (Wed) Parents see E.
19 (Thur) Afternoon Shield meeting.
20 (Fri) Lunch Vanessa Redgrave.
21 (Sat) GB, Warwick.
23 (Mon) 6pm BB regarding E.
24 (Tue) E rehearsal.
25 (Wed) GB music meeting Barnes Studios. 8pm PH.
27 (Fri) Lunch JL. 3:30pm Shield meeting. Evening TP drinks.
29 (Sun) Robert Lowell reading Mermaid Theatre.
30 (Mon) E.
December
2 (Wed) Michael Tippett’s The Knot Garden, directed by PH, Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden (CGa).
7 (Mon) E cast dinner: Tiberio.
9 (Wed) E.
11 (Fri) Afternoon JW. Then visits Daniel’s school, St Paul’s. Poem ‘All of
That’ (Times Literary Supplement (TLS), 3589: 1436; BR: C14).
12 (Sat) E final night Mermaid Theatre.
14 (Mon) Lunch Feliks Topolski. 8pm John Mortimer’s A Voyage

Round My Father Greenwich Theatre.
17 (Thur) Sees The Knot Garden again.
18 (Fri) Shield meeting.
19 (Sat) Nets.
20–22 (Sun–Tue) In Oxford.
21 (Mon) Afternoon PH.
27 (Sun) Departs for Spice Islands holiday.
1971
Film GB released, directed by JL.
January
9 (Sat) London.
11 (Mon) 4pm Trevor Nunn.
13 (Wed) 1pm lunch JL.
14 (Thur) 6:30pm PH, Trevor Nunn.
15 (Fri) 2pm PH.
18 (Mon) 7:30pm PH, Dimitri de Grunwald, film producer.
20 (Wed) Hove. Evening Tom Mallin’s Curtains Open Space Theatre,
Tottenham Court Road.
21 (Thur) Lunch RH.
23 (Sat) Nets.
26 (Tue) Lunch DP. Evening AB as Hamlet Cambridge Theatre.
27 (Wed) 5:30pm Shield meeting.
28 (Thur) Morning squash Michael Kustow (MK).
February
2 (Tue) Dinner Dimitri de Grunwald.
3 (Wed) Parents. Evening preview, Criterion Theatre, RSC’s DM’s comedy,
After Haggerty.
7 (Sun) BBC recording SB’s Lessness: HP in the cast.
8 (Mon) Hove. 6pm Shield meeting.
9 (Tue) Evening JW.
11 (Thur) 11:30am AB. Evening Shield meeting.
12 (Fri) 1pm lunch Robert Bolt (RB). 8pm CM.
13 (Sat) Nets.
15 (Mon) Morning MC, Simon Gray (SG). They ask HP to direct SG’s Butley
(Bu). 5:30pm PH. 8pm dinner Dimitri de Grunwald.
17 (Wed) BP opens Nottingham.
18 (Thur) 3pm signs copies of Five Screenplays for Karnac Books, Gloucester
Road, SW7 (BR: B2b). Evening Dion Boucicault’s London Assurance
Ald.
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20 (Sat) Evening MG.

22 (Mon) Evening Dorothy Tutin and her husband Derek Waring: she
plays Kate in Old Times (OT).
23 (Tue) Lunch ME. 4pm GB.
24 (Wed) 10:30pm MC. Lunch Harold Hobson.
25 (Thur) Morning squash PW. Evening Radio 3 broadcast of Lessness.
26 (Fri) Hove.
March
1 (Mon) Visconti’s Death in Venice at the Warner, then MC. Evening
AB.
3 (Wed) Meets JL, L.P. Hartley: sees GB.
4 (Thur) 6pm AB, MC and subsequently SG to discuss Bu.
10 (Wed) Morning and lunch SG. 5:30pm PH. Dinner Dimitri de
Grunwald.
12 (Fri) Nottingham sees BP.
16 (Tue) Evening hears Brahms’ Requiem at Daniel’s school,
St Paul’s. Richard Round interview (Guardian, Arts, 8).
Harold Hobson interview (Christian Science Monitor; BR:
G35, 36).
18 (Thur) Morning Bu readings. 4:45pm PH, John Bury, theatre
designer, CGa. Five Screenplays first Methuen edition
published (BR: B2).
21 (Sun) Dublin.
22–23 (Mon–Tue) Rehearsals.
April
3 (Sat) London.
5 (Mon) OT rehearsals. 3:30pm GB screening.
6 (Tue) Bu auditions.
7 (Wed) Hove.
8 (Thur) Bu. Evening PW.
9 (Fri) Bu auditions. Evening AS.
12–17 (Mon–Sat) OT rehearsals.
14 (Wed) Bu auditions.
15 (Thur) 5:30pm ED.
19 (Mon) 4:45pm Estelle Kohler, actress.
20 (Tue) 6:30pm Downing Street reception.
21 (Wed) Oxford for OT Oxford Playhouse.
23 (Fri) London.
25 (Sun) Randolph Hotel, Oxford.
May–June
‘Pinter on Beckett’ (New Theatre Magazine, XI: 3: 3; BR: E16).
May
2 (Sun) Leaves Oxford.
3 (Mon) Staying at University Arms, Cambridge.
7 (Fri) 7:30pm GB’s showing.
10 (Mon) Guildford OT preliminary run. Afternoon Lars Schmidt,
Swedish producer.
17 (Mon) OT Nottingham.
18 (Tue) New York revival H Bijou Theater.
19 (Wed) Opens SB exhibition University Library, Reading. Introduc-
tory address subsequently published as ‘Pinter on Beckett’,
New Theatre Magazine, XI: 3 (May–June, 1971) (BR: E16).
21 (Fri) Nottingham.
23 (Sun) Leaves Nottingham.
24 (Mon) To Cannes Film Festival.
25 (Tue) Cannes showing of GB; wins Palme d’Or. Later, Writers’
Guild and BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television
Arts) Awards.
26 (Wed) Returns from Cannes following morning press conference.
27–29 (Thur–Sat) OT previews.
28 (Fri) Lunch SG.
June
1 (Tue) OT opens Ald, directed by PH for RSC. Meets RSt.
3 (Thur)Lunch CM. Afternoon JW.
4 (Fri) Lunch RSt: Connaught Hotel, Mayfair.
5 (Sat) Discusses RSt rights on HP’s work with Arnold Goodman.
6 (Sun) Interview with Jacky Gillott on Options, introduced by Philip
Oakes. BBC Radio 4, broadcast (BR: J34).
7 (Mon) 10:30am rehearsal Bu.
9 (Wed) Parents’ wedding anniversary. 6pm JW.
10 (Thur) Morning Dorothy Tutin. Evening Peter Nichols’ Forget-Me-Not
Lane Apollo Theatre.
11 (Fri) 11:30am book signing at Karnac Books of specially bound issue,
150 copies of OT (BR: A43b).
12 (Sat) Plays for HP’s XI Guardian.
14 (Mon) Parents to OT.
15 (Tue) Goes to OT. Dinner Bernard Miles.
16 (Wed) Evening Eric Kahane.
17 (Thur) OT first edition, Methuen (BR: A34a).
18 (Fri) Morning Bu rehearsal.
21 (Mon) Morning CM. Evening OT photo call.
22 (Tue) 9:30am Arnold Goodman. Evening JB.
23 (Wed) Noon costumes for Bu.
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24 (Thur) 6pm Robert Bryan discusses Bu lighting Criterion Theatre.

25 (Fri) Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Peter Brook, Ald.
27 (Sun) Plays cricket. JL.
28 (Mon) Morning JW.
29 (Tue) Morning Bu rehearsal.
30 (Wed) Morning Arnold Weissberger, Arnold Goodman: Savoy.
July
1 (Thur) PW.
2 (Fri) OT.
4 (Sun) Edward Albee writes thanking HP for copy of OT and for
permission to quote HP’s remarks on his play All Over for
the dust cover of the published play.
5 (Mon) Oxford.
7 (Wed) Stage version of Bu Oxford Playhouse, MC production,
directed by HP.
12–13 (Mon–Tue) Bu dress rehearsals.
14 (Wed) Bu moves to the Criterion Theatre, London.
16 (Fri) Birmingham University, receives honorary doctorate.
18 (Sun) Holiday Gleneagles Hotel, Perth, Scotland.
27 (Tue) Bu.
28 (Wed) Morning nets. Afternoon JW. 6pm Bu cast.
August
2 (Mon) Morning RH.
4 (Wed) Lunch SG, MC. First night John Mortimer’s A Voyage Round
My Father.
5 (Thur) Ga Twickenham
6 (Fri) 1pm C lunch.
9 (Mon) Paris, OT initial rehearsal.
11 (Wed) London.
16 (Mon) Roy Dotrice, actor, then OT.
18 (Wed) Afternoon ED, John Bury to discuss set.
19 (Thur) GB reception, then JW. Evening Bu then MC, AB.
21 (Sat) Plays cricket. Evening Michael Parkinson TV show.
24–27 (Tue–Fri) Paris.
28 (Sat) Morning DJ.
30 (Mon) Plays cricket.
31 (Tue) 5pm ED, DJ and John Bury discuss HP’s plan to direct film
of LGD (Sharp Cut: 372).
Autumn
Rewriting film script of LGD.
September
2 (Thur) Dinner Bernard Miles.
4 (Sat) Poetry reading.
6 (Mon) Morning E audition.
8 (Wed) Flies to Paris for dress rehearsal OT.
9 (Thur) Early evening London.
10 (Fri) Preview George Etherege’s The Man of Mode Ald.
11 (Sat) 11am ED. Evening Thelma Wax party. First Paris preview OT.
13 (Mon) First night The Man of Mode.
14 (Tue) E rehearsal.
15 (Wed) Morning MC.
20 (Mon) OT opens in Paris.
23 (Thur) London. GB opening.
28 (Tue) 1pm PH, RS, Mary Ure. 5:30pm Tennessee Williams.
October
7 (Thur) Opening night E Ald, directed by HP.
8 (Fri) With JW and his parents to GB.
9 (Sat) Nets, then with his parents to E matinee.
11 (Mon) Paris, sees BB and OT.
14–15 (Thur–Fri) Rome with JL.
16 (Sat) London.
20 (Wed) Donmar Warehouse, runs through OT for subsequent
New York production.
22 (Thur) 4:30pm Writers Guild meeting Churchill Hotel. Then OT
rehearsal. 8:30pm South African writers meeting.
23 (Fri) Cricket.
26 (Tue) Dimitri de Grunwald.
28 (Thur) 2:30pm OT rehearsal then to E.
29 (Fri) Norwich Royal Command Performance of GB.
November
1 (Mon) Harley Street clinic, medical consultation.
3 (Wed) OT rehearsal for New York production.
4 (Thur) Hove.
6 (Sat) Morning nets. OT rehearsal.
8 (Mon) Flies to New York.
9–16 (Tue–Tue) OT New York.
16 (Tue) Opening night OT New York, directed by PH.
17 (Wed) Toronto, meets HW.
19 (Fri) London.
22 (Mon) JW.
24 (Wed) Lunch DM.
26 (Fri) Evening Dramatists Club.
27 (Sat) Nets.
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December
3 (Fri) 1pm MC, Richard Briers, SG, drinks, discusses Bu (Putting:
215).
4 (Sat) Nets.
5 (Sun) Mel Gussow conversation (New York Times, Section 6: 42–3,
126–9, 131–6; BR: G37).
6 (Mon) 9pm AB, DP.
10 (Fri) Cardiff, sees H.
11 (Sat) London.
12 (Sun) Evening Ga AGM.
13 (Mon) Hove, then Richard Briers concerning Bu.
14 (Tue) Hove.
16 (Thur) Bu rehearsal.
17 (Fri) Works on ‘Proust’ adaptation.
18–24 (Sat–Fri) Holiday.
27 (Mon) Lunch GV. Evening to Godspell Roundhouse.
29 (Wed) Lunch JW.
1972
HP, JL and BB adapting Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu as a

screenplay.
January
1 (Sat) JW. ‘Public and Private: Notes by [HP]’ (Manitoba Theatre Centre
Newsletter, 1–2; BR: E18).
4 (Tue) CM, ED. Evening David Storey’s The Changing Room Globe Theatre.
15 (Sat) Performs in E NT.
17 (Mon) Bu rehearsal.
18 (Tue) JW: Drama Award luncheon. Meets HW at the Volunteer pub.
Then E cast farewell party.
19 (Wed) Takes parents to Bu.
20 (Thur) Bu.
24 (Mon) VM in OT Stratford-upon-Avon.
26 (Wed) Initial C rehearsal.
27 (Thur) Afternoon Bu.
28 (Fri) Bu rehearsal.
29 (Sat) AB’s final performance as Ben in Bu.
31 (Mon) Dress rehearsal of Bu with Richard Briers.
February
4 (Fri) C production.
12 (Sat) NT production of TS’s Jumpers OV.
14 (Mon) Lunch BB. 5pm BB, JL discusses ‘Proust’ adaptation.
15 (Tue) BB, works on ‘Proust’.

16 (Wed) 5:30pm JW. Then dinner BB, GV.
17 (Thur) Dinner JW. Writers Guild Award at NFT.
21 (Mon) C.
23 (Wed) 3pm PH, before attending BAFTA presentations for GB.
24 (Thur) C.
26 (Sat) Lunch GV. Evening RB.
29 (Tue) C preview.
March
1 (Wed) C preview.
2 (Thur) C revival Mermaid Theatre, directed by CM.
3 (Fri) 3pm Klaus Juncker (HP’s German/Austrian agent).
6 (Mon) Evening DP.
8 (Wed) H performed in Nottingham.
11 (Sat) C.
13 (Mon) Morning JW. Evening Terence Rigby.
15 (Wed) Hove.
18 (Sat) Last night OT Ald.
19 (Sun) Lunch GV.
22 (Wed) 5:45pm GV.
23 (Thur) Daniel’s Easter-term holiday begins. HP leaves for Paris. 1:30pm
BB. 8pm JL.
24 (Fri) BB and JL ‘Proust’. Sees SB, returns to London.
25 (Sat) Parents.
27 (Mon) 8pm Bu.
28 (Tue) 10am ME. 3pm JW. 5pm Shield meeting. 8:15pm C. Works on
‘Proust’. Telephones PH to see if there are developments on film-
ing H, directed by PH, Ald (RSC) in 1965 (Diaries: 4).
29 (Wed) Father’s 70th birthday.
30 (Thur) Flies to West Indies for holiday.
April
15 (Sat) London.
18 (Tue) 4:30pm JL.
19 (Wed) 5:30pm GV.
20 (Thur) Morning MC. Daniel returns to school. Afternoon Shield meeting.
21 (Fri) Lunch GV.
24 (Mon) Norfolk, visits JL.
30 (Sun) First Ga match of the season.
May
1 (Mon) 1pm JW.
2 (Tue) JW.
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3 (Wed) Lunch VM and Maximilian Schell, Swiss actor. Evening

SGs.
4 (Thur) Noon parents. 4pm JW.
5 (Fri) Evening C.
8–13 (Mon–Sat) Norfolk with JLs.
11 (Thur) Works on ‘Proust’.
13 (Sat) C last night.
14 (Sun) Norfolk.
16 (Tue) Cannes.
17 (Wed) London.
20 (Sat) Corresponds with poet W.S. Graham (HPA). Lunch GV.
23 (Tue) 4pm JW.
24 (Wed) Lunch JW: Odin’s.
26 (Fri) Lunch CM.
27 (Sat) HW.
30 (Tue) Bolts.
31 (Wed) Lunch HW, JW, JLs. Evening EO.
June
3 (Sat) RSt: Connaught.
4 (Sun) Afternoon cricket.
7 (Wed) Evening cricket.
8 (Thur) Lunch JL: Odin’s.
9 (Fri) Hove. Evening Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane NFT.
17 (Sat) Afternoon cricket match HP’s XI Guardian.
19 (Mon) Lunchtime hears John Betjeman reading Philip Larkin. 8:30pm
poetry reading.
20 (Tue) OT first night in German, Vienna’s Burgtheater, directed by
PH.
22 (Thur) Lord’s, England v Australia. 6pm C meeting Clive Donner.
23 (Fri) Lord’s.
24 (Sat) Lord’s. Evening Fosters.
26 (Mon) Lord’s.
27 (Tue) Afternoon JL then HW.
28 (Wed) 1pm lunch Alec McCowen, SG to discuss Bu. 3:30pm JL. 6:30pm
Bernard Miles, Mermaid Theatre. Then R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s
End Mermaid Theatre.
29 (Thur) Lunchtime Shield meeting.
July
1 (Sat) 3:30pm HW.
6 (Thur) 3pm JW.
7 (Fri) D run-through Young Vic.
11 (Tue) Lunch JW: Odin’s. Evening Ralph Richardson (RR) and PA in

William Douglas-Home’s Lloyd George Knew My Father Savoy
Theatre. Then Odin’s.
12 (Wed) 8pm Emlyn Williams as Dylan Thomas RFH, then Weissberger
party.
14 (Fri) Correspondence regarding monologue (m) (HPA). First preview D
Young Vic, then takes cast of D to Rowley’s.
15 (Sat) Cricket.
17 (Mon) D press night.
19 (Wed) Midday views Proust film BBC TV Centre, White City then lunch
JL, BB.
20 (Thur) 4pm HW. 5:30pm IH: Volunteer pub.
21 (Fri) Paris, Proust consultation.
30 (Sun) London.
31 (Mon) 2:30pm Alec McCowen discusses Ben Bu role.
August
1 (Tue) PH at his Wallingford home.
2 (Wed) Bu rehearsal.
3 (Thur) 10am JW. 11am JL. Evening Bu cast party.
5 (Sat) 10:30am Bu. 4pm parents. Last night Richard Briers as Ben.
7 (Mon) HP, PH meet in pub to review PH’s invitation for HP
to be an Associate Director NT (see Diaries: 16). Alec
McCowen’s first night as Ben.
11 (Fri) HW.
12 (Sat) Oval, England v Australia.
14–15 (Mon–Tue) Oval.
16 (Wed) Evening Marcel Marceau Sadler’s Wells Theatre.
17 (Thur) 12:30pm Philip Larkin: Vendome restaurant. Evening
Bu. Then dinner Alec McCowen.
24 (Thur) 4pm NT site tour with PH.
26 (Sat) Cricket.
29 (Tue) Dublin.
31 (Thur) London.
September
H revival CSC Repertory Theater, New York.
1 (Fri) 11am JL. Peter Terson’s Zigger Zagger Shaw Theatre, National Youth
Theatre.
2 (Sat) Lord’s, Gillette Cup final.
5 (Tue) 6:30pm JB.
9 (Sat) 10am JL. 6pm Marx Brothers’ A Night At the Opera Everyman
cinema.
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11 (Mon)Hove.
12 (Tue)1pm lunch Daniel: Odin’s. 9pm dinner HW.
14 (Thur)
Wedding anniversary. 10:45am HW. 12:45pm lunch JW: Odin’s.
15 (Fri)Dublin.
16 (Sat)London.
19 (Tue)6:30pm CM.
20 (Wed)Works on ‘Proust’. 8pm D Young Vic.
25 (Mon)Morning squash. Lunch SG. 6pm Jorge Petraglia, actor.
27 (Wed)12–2pm National Book League, Albemarle Street for the publica-
tion of Aidan Higgins’ Balcony of Europe.
28 (Thur) 4pm HW, joined at 6:30pm by CM.
October
2 (Mon) Working on H screenplay. JLs.
3–4 (Tue–Wed) JL, BB.
5 (Thur) 1pm lunch BB: Odin’s.
9 (Mon) Evening dinner Higginses: Odin’s.
12 (Thur) Lunch JW. Evening sees Bu.
14 (Sat) Last night Bu.
15 (Sun) 5:30pm JL.
17 (Tue) Lunch DM, JW: Odin’s.
19 (Thur) Letter ‘Mr. Losey’s Screenplays’ (Times, 17d; BR: F5).
23 (Mon) Squash RH.
24 (Tue) 12:30pm PA.
25 (Wed) Film script ‘Proust’ adaptation dated 25 October 1972
(Sharp Cut: 440 n. 6).
27 (Fri) Hove. Evening dinner French Embassy.
28 (Sat) 8pm Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s The Front Page OV.
30 (Mon) New York for Bu American tour.
November
3 (Fri) London.
5 (Sun) Dinner VM: Odin’s.
6 (Mon) Lunch DM.
7 (Tue) Lunch the Queen.
8 (Wed) Lunch VM, Daniel and EO: Odin’s.
9 (Thur) Dinner GV.
10 (Fri) RSt.
11 (Sat) 8pm sees TS’s The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte Shaw
Theatre.
13 (Mon) Squash RH. EO’s A Pagan Place RC
21 (Tue) Lord’s, reception.
22 (Wed) To Hove, then BBC reception.
24 (Fri) Lunch EO.

25 (Sat) 8:30pm Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s Behind the Fridge.
28 (Tue) David Rudkin’s The Filth Hunt Ambiance Almost Free Theatre.
29 (Wed) Morning squash RH. Lunch DM.
December
2 (Sat) PH looks in North London for location of H film. To Shepperton
Studios to look at the sets (Diaries: 21).
7 (Thur) Morning SA read-through.
11 (Mon) Rehearsals H film.
13 (Wed) Shepperton H rehearsals. 5:30pm CM.
15 (Fri) Shepperton H rehearsals.
18 (Mon) 7:30pm Osborne’s A Sense of Detachment RC.
19 (Tue) Evening Bernard Miles, Mermaid Theatre.
20 (Wed) Shepperton H, then to the first m rehearsal.
21 (Thur) m rehearsal.
22 (Fri) Shepperton H.
23 (Sat) Afternoon JL. 9:45pm listens to The Waste Land on BBC Radio 3.
27 (Wed) First day H shooting.
28 (Thur) At Shepperton for H. m in Acton.
29 (Fri) Records m BBC. Dinner HW, CM: Odin’s.
1973
m first edition, standard issue, Covent Garden Press (BR: A35a¹).
February
14 (Wed) Meets PH, accepts invitation to be a NT Associate Director
(Diaries: 33–4).
March
8 (Thur) Attends initial NT Associates’ meeting (see Diaries: 35–6).
April
SA revival Croydon.
13 (Fri) m BBC2, directed by CM, with HW.
May
Directs Bu for BBC TV. Film H released in USA (in UK in 1976), directed by
PH. Declares opposition to US-sponsored overthrow of democratic govern-
ment of Chile.
10 (Thur) Interview on HP’s hostile criticism of Luchino Visconti’s Teatro
di Roma OT production on Kaleidoscope programme, BBC Radio
4, broadcast (BR: J35).
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11 (Fri) Peter Nichols interview ‘Mr Pinter Accuses Signor Visconti of

Staging “fiasco”: Play Still Belongs to Me, [HP] says’ (Times, 6;
BR: G38).
28 (Mon) Bu completed.
30 (Wed) Filming Bu Shepperton.
June
21 (Thur) C New York revival, Roundabout Theater.
22 (Fri) Sydney Edwards interview (Evening Standard, 28; BR: G39).
Autumn
Night revival in double bill with m, Orange Tree Theatre, transferred to Bush
Theatre, directed by Sam Mendes with HW.
October
‘Pinter on Pinter’ (The American Film Theatre/Cinebill, 1. 2: 5–7).
4 (Thur) NT Associates’ meeting. then private meeting with LO and PH
(Diaries: 58).
16 (Tue) Accepts Austrian Government Prize for European Literature.
17 (Wed) SA, restaged, RSC Ald, in double bill with L, directed by Peter
James.
November
23 (Fri) Lee Langley interview (Daily Telegraph, 30–6; BR: G40).
29 (Thur) HP, PH involved casting of John Hopkins’ Next of Kin (NK),
directed by HP.
December
10 (Mon) Letter on the film industry (Times, 17d; BR: F6). H film attended
by PH, the cast and crew; ‘drunk’, [DM] ‘the only hostile critic’
(Diaries: 68).
11 (Tue) DW revival, directed by Paul Joyce.
1974
Poem ‘And all the others’ (Aquarius, 7: 9). ‘Pinter on Pinter with excerpts
from his plays’ (BR: C16, J36).
January
Bu USA release January 1974 (BR: K20).
1 (Tue) Notes relating to The Last Tycoon (LT), from the uncompleted
novel by Scott Fitzgerald, some addressed to SS (HPA).
2 (Wed) New York.
9 (Wed) 7:30pm H (MGM) screening.
11 (Fri) London.
13 (Sun) 3pm JL. 6pm JW.

14 (Mon) Correspondence with Elia Kazan (EK) and others regarding LT
(HPA).
16 (Wed) Morning squash RH.
17 (Thur) Starts work on LT.
19 (Sat) Morning nets. Afternoon Stamford Bridge, Chelsea v Derby
County (football). 9pm last performance of L RSC.
20 (Sun) 8pm dinner SS: Odin’s.
21 (Mon) 4pm John Hopkins.
22 (Tue) 7:30pm MK.
24 (Thur) Morning John Hopkins.
26 (Sat) 6:30pm William Faulkner’s The Big Sleep, directed by Howard
Hawks, NFT.
27 (Sun) Evening Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants du Paradis NFT.
29 (Tue) Hove.
30 (Wed) 1pm MK. 7:30pm IH.
31 (Thur) 3pm JL. 5pm JW.
February
1 (Fri) Lunch Earl of Perth pub. Then Lord (Noel) Annan, House of Lords.
4 (Mon) Afternoon Harley Street doctor. 5:30pm Karel Reisz (KR), who
directs The French Lieutenant’s Woman (FLW).
5 (Tue) Evening Athol Fugard’s, John Kani’s, Winston Ntshona’s Sizwe
Bansi Is Dead RC.
7 (Thur) Morning NK auditions. 1pm lengthy NT Associates’ meeting
concerning Jonathan Miller’s idea to produce The Importance
of Being Earnest with entirely male cast. HP has sharp disagree-
ment with Miller: ‘feels one has a greater responsibility to a dead
dramatist than to a living one’ (Diaries: 80–1). The production
didn’t take place.
12 (Tue) 8pm dinner KR: Odin’s.
13 (Wed) Morning squash. 1:30pm DM.
14 (Thur) VM in Jean Genet’s The Maids Greenwich Theatre.
15 (Fri) 1:15pm HW: King’s Head pub.
16 (Sat) 5:30pm KR.
19 (Tue) 7pm The Maids press night.
20 (Wed) 7:30pm dinner MK, CM.
21 (Thur) 7:30pm Jonathan Miller’s Measure for Measure OV.
22 (Fri) Lunch JW.
25 (Mon) Evening DM’s Duck Song RSC.
26 (Tue) Mother’s 70th birthday. Lunch parents: Tiberio.
27 (Wed) 11am L’s screening Barbican. 1pm Henry T. Weinstein, film
producer, H. 3:30pm Tim O’Brien, theatrical designer, PH.
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28 (Thur) Tim O’Brien, John Hopkins. Evening Athol Fugard, John Kani,
Winston Ntshona’s The Island RC. General Election: Labour win
with slight majority over Conservatives.
March
2 (Sat) 5:30pm KR.
5 (Tue) First draft of LT. 1pm Penelope Mortimer. Opening The
Tempest OV, directed by PH, JGi as Prospero. HP rings PH
at 1:15am: he and PA ‘loved it’ (Diaries: 83).
6 (Wed) 1pm John Russell Brown, critic: Odin’s. Correspondence
with Tony Astbury (TA) concerning poetry readings (HPA).
8 (Fri) 7pm screening of Bu directed by HP (see Sharp Cut: 457
n. 32).
11 (Mon) Meets Mike Nichols (MN), SS for discussions on filming LT.
12–15 (Tue–Fri) Meets MN, SS.
18 (Mon) Rehearsals begin for NK, HP directing.
19 (Tue) Stage reading NK.
20 (Wed) Dinner SS.
21 (Thur) Morning NK rehearsal. Evening NT meeting.
22 (Fri) Morning medical visit. 12:30pm NK rehearsals. 8pm din-
ner VM: Odin’s. Letter ‘Vladimir Bukovsky’ (Times, 17;
BR: F7).
23 (Sat) Evening The Tempest NT.
25–26 (Mon–Tue) NK rehearsals.
26 (Tue) 11am PH, Barbican.
28 (Thur) Morning doctor. 10:30am NK rehearsal. 7:15pm Ga dinner.
April
1–4 (Mon–Thur) NK rehearsals, costumes.
1 (Mon) 6:30pm Wardour Street sees L film.
4 (Thur) Morning NT meeting. 6–8pm New Review drinks party
(first issue appeared April 1974). Then dinner Odin’s.
5–9 (Fri–Tue) Rehearsals (except Sunday).
8 (Mon) 7:30pm dinner CM.
9 (Tue) 1pm rehearsal.
10 (Wed) 8:15pm initial NT Associates’ dinner: La Terraza.
12 (Fri) NK rehearsal.
13 (Sat) Evening ballet Coliseum, Maurice Béjart’s Ballet of the
20th Century, music by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
15 (Mon) Lunch JL.
16 (Tue) 10:30am NK run-through.
17 (Wed) NK rehearsal.
18 (Thur) 1pm NT meeting (Diaries: 90).
20 (Sat) Rehearsal.
22 (Mon) Lunch KR.

23–26 (Tue–Fri) Rehearsals.
23 (Tue) 6pm Lillian Hellman reception: Garrick.
24 (Wed) Lunch JW.
27 (Sat) 7:30pm dinner Lillian Hellman: Odin’s.
28 (Sun) NK set-up.
29 (Mon) 7:30pm dress rehearsal.
30 (Tue) Morning Timothy O’Brien, Tazeena Firth, David Hersey
(lighting designer): Waldorf. 1pm rehearsal, then first
preview.
May
Works on screenplay for LT.
1 (Wed) 9:30am NK designers. 11am PH. 1pm rehearsal and pre-
view.
2 (Thur) 1pm NT meeting. First night NK OV.
3 (Fri) 1pm lunch VM: Odin’s. 6pm to OV for NK. Receives ‘mixed
notices’ (Diaries: 93).
4 (Sat) Lunch SS: Connaught.
7–8 (Tue–Wed) NK rehearsals.
8 (Wed) 11:30am JW. 8pm NT dinner.
11 (Sat) Lunch Hammersteins.
13 (Mon) NK Theatre Royal, Brighton. Stays at Royal Albion Hotel.
15 (Wed) 7:30pm David Storey’s Life Class RC.
17 (Fri) 4:15pm HW.
20 (Mon) NK Birmingham
22 (Wed) 5:30pm RH and other writers. 6:30pm meeting for South
Africa.
24 (Fri) Lunch John Hopkins.
30 (Tue) Lunch JL.
31 (Fri) Morning squash then lunch RH. NK returns to NT. Draft of
LT (HPA).
June
1 (Sat) Lunch then dinner SS, who will produce LT.
3 (Mon) Lunch SS.
13 (Thur) 1pm lunch JW: Odin’s.
14 (Fri) Lunch KR.
15 (Sat) HP’s XI Guardian.
18–20 (Tue–Thur) University of Glasgow.
19 (Wed) Honorary DLitt Glasgow.
21 (Fri) Lunch CM: Odin’s. 7:30pm TS’s Travesties Ald.
22 (Sat) Lunch JW.
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24 (Mon) 3pm SS.

25 (Tue) Lunch SS.
26 (Wed) Lunch SS. 6pm RSt.
July
1 (Mon) Bound LT draft (HPA). 6pm screening PH’s Ronald Blythe’s
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village.
5 (Fri) Honorary DLitt University of East Anglia.
9 (Tue) Evening NT dinner.
15 (Mon) Plays cricket for Ga.
16 (Tue) Starts what became No Man’s Land (NM, Billington: 242).
17 (Wed) 10:30am NT meeting. Noon lunch JW. 5:30pm KR. Evening John
Wells’ translation of Pierre Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro NT.
19 (Fri) Lunch JW: Odin’s. 7:30pm NK.
20 (Sat) 5pm parents.
22 (Mon) Amsterdam.
23 (Tue) Evening London.
25 (Thur) Stays at KRs’ country cottage.
27 (Sat) Rings PH: ‘I think I might be pregnant.’ PH comments
‘A play is on the way’ (Diaries: 113).
August
1 (Thur) 1pm NT meeting.
6 (Tue) Ga Richmond.
7 (Wed) Lunch PH. HP ‘very excited about his new play ... for the first time
for years he was overwriting, letting it all come out and being less
critical of his writing as he worked. He felt freer’ (Diaries: 115).
8 (Thur) Ga Twickenham
9 (Fri) 7:15pm AAy’s Norman Conquests Globe Theatre.
10 (Sat) 5pm Mermaid Theatre meeting.
15 (Thur) 1pm NT meeting. Last performance of present cycle of NK.
17 (Sat) Sees Norman Conquests again.
24 (Sat) 1pm Bu screening (Sharp Cut: 380–7).
31 (Sat) 5:30pm AAy Globe Theatre.
September
2 (Mon) 1pm SS: Connaught.
3 (Tue) Hove.
6 (Fri) Finishes NM.
9 (Mon) 2:30pm SS.
11 (Wed) Lunch JW: Odin’s. Evening NT dinner.
12 (Thur) 1pm lunch JBa.
13 (Fri) 5:30pm KR.
16 (Mon) Lunch JW. 3pm RSt.
20 (Fri) Lunch RH: Odin’s.

23 (Mon) Lunch RS: Odin’s.
26 (Thur) Lunch SG: Venezia’s.
27 (Fri) HW.
28 (Sat) JGi tells HP that NM is a ‘brilliant play’ and that he is ‘really
delighted’ to be Spooner (HPA).
30 (Mon) Dinner Henry T. Weinstein. 7:30pm piano recital Wigmore Hall.
October
Film Bu on BBC TV.
3 (Thur)1pm NT Associates’ meeting.
4 (Fri) 11am JW. Lunch CM.
8 (Tue) 4pm PH.
9 (Wed) Still at 7 Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park, London NW1. Evening
NT Associates’ dinner. At midnight, they sing ‘Happy Birthday’
for HP (Diaries: 122–3).
10 (Thur) Dinner Odin’s. General Election: Labour win with a majority of
three.
11 (Fri) Franz Wedekind’s Spring Awakening NT.
12 (Sat) CM’s wedding.
14 (Mon) 10pm Capital Radio interview (broadcast 10:45pm).
15 (Tue) Afternoon Kevin Billington (KB). 5pm Dress Circle Bar meeting.
7:30pm concert St John’s Smith Square.
16 (Wed) 4:30pm JW. 6pm PH. 7pm The Night Porter, with Dirk Bogarde,
Charlotte Rampling.
18 (Fri) New York.
26 (Sat) London.
28 (Mon) Dinner SB at PH’s.
November
1 (Fri) Lunch Arnold Goodman. 7:30pm Ga dinner.
5 (Tue) DM family wedding.
6 (Wed) Demonstration at the Russian Embassy.
7 (Thur) Dinner party for JGi, HP, Barbican. PH then returns home at
12:30am finding a very drunk HP. PH ‘got him into the taxi and
he sat with great dignity on the floor. He looked around him
and observed, “What’s wrong with this fucking taxi?” I guided
him gently up on to the seat and he whirled off to Regent’s Park’
(Diaries: 129).
9 (Sat) PH decides to direct NM. HP poetry reading Warwick at the
Gallery organized by TA.
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11 (Mon) 3:30pm JW. 5:30pm casting session for NM. Final LT draft.
13 (Wed) NT Associates’ dinner.
14 (Thur) Lunch GV.
16 (Sat) Morning cricket coaching. 6pm SS.
17–23 (Sun–Sat) Shrubland Hall Health Clinic, Suffolk.
18 (Mon) RR regards Hirst in NM as ‘a splendid part’ (HPA).
25 (Mon) Lunch SG.
27 (Wed) 4:15pm JW.
28 (Thur) Meets SS, LT’s producer, and EK its director.
29 (Fri) 11am EK.
30 (Sat) 10:30am EK. 1pm SS.
December
2 (Mon) 1:15pm JW.
4 (Wed) 11am NM auditions.
5 (Thur) 1pm NT meeting. 4pm JW, PH, RSt. 7:30pm A.E. Ellis’ Grand
Manoeuvres NT.
6 (Fri) 1:15pm SS.
8 (Sun) Ga AGM.
9 (Mon) 10:45am PH. 11am NM auditions. 6pm KB.
10 (Tue) BP Boys’ Mission Hall, Inns of Court. 8pm Stephen Poliakoff’s
Clever Soldiers Hampstead Theatre Club. 10:30pm dinner PH:
Odin’s.
11 (Wed) 7:45pm NT Associates’ dinner.
13 (Fri) 10am PH, John Bury concerning NM set (Diaries: 135–6).
14 (Sat) 7:30pm Simon Munting guitar recital Wigmore Hall.
17 (Tue) 10am NM auditions OV.
21 (Sat) Flies to Nice.
28 (Sat) London.
1975
Account of HP’s reading experience in Bookmarks (Cape): 126 (BR: E20).
January
3 (Fri) Morning PH, John Bury NM set.

6–7 (Mon–Tue) BP preview.
8 (Wed) Shaw Theatre BP revival directed by KB. Dinner party MBis
where HP meets Antonia Fraser (AF). HP gives her a lift
home, stays until 6am. Shortly after, sends AF NM typescript.
10 (Fri) 1pm CM.
13 (Mon) 1pm KB. 6pm AF for drink at Royal Lancaster Hotel, Bayswater.
14 (Tue) 2:30pm LT reading.
15 (Wed) Lunch SG.
18 (Sat) Evening Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman OV.
19 (Sun) Noon KB.
21 (Tue) Medical tests.
22 (Wed) Dinner SG.
23 (Thur) 5:30pm HP, AF re-meet at the Royal Lancaster Hotel: part at
11:30pm.
25 (Sat) 7:30pm SG: Odin’s.
27 (Mon) Lunch MC, SG.
28 (Tue) Edward Albee sends HP nine-hour version of his Seascape (HPA).
Borkman first night, then dinner party at PH’s Barbican flat. HP,
RR meet for first time.
30 (Thur) HP calls AF. 1pm NT Associates’ meeting. 6:30pm HW.
31 (Fri) Squash and lunch RH.
February
1 (Sat) AF visits HP at Regent’s Park Terrace house.
3 (Mon) 7pm Bu screening.
5 (Wed) Morning squash RH. Lunch IH. 3pm LT. Evening theatre readings.
6 (Thur) Morning PH, John Bury. 6:45pm KB. 7:30pm BP cast.
9 (Sun) HP phones AF.
10 (Mon) Initial rehearsal and reading of NM.
11 (Tue) VM flies to Hong Kong. Afternoon MC.
12 (Wed) Morning JW. NM rehearsals.
13 (Thur) 1:30pm AB.
15 (Sat) Hears OT well received in Delhi and less so in Calcutta.
19 (Wed) Lunch JGi, RR. VM seriously ill in Hong Kong. Meets AF for
drinks: Churchill Hotel, then flies to Hong Kong.
22 (Sat) In Hong Kong, sends AF poems.
28 (Fri) Telephones AF from Hong Kong.
March
8 (Sat) HP, VM return to London.
11 (Tue) 10am SS. NT NM rehearsal. Meets AF.
12 (Wed) SS, EK for LT auditions.
13 (Thur) With SS auditioning for LT filming. Meets AF: Stafford Hotel.
14 (Fri) 3pm NM run-through. HP tells PH that he ‘was wildly and happily
in love’ but hadn’t told VM yet as ‘she had been ill’ (Diaries: 152).
Meets AF. First night German-speaking OT in Mainz. Production
visits 80 German and Austrian towns, then another 25.
15 (Sat) Tells VM that he has ‘met somebody’ (Must: 13). Meets SS, EK
and Robert De Niro (Monroe Stahr in LT).
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16 (Sun) SS, EK regarding LT.

18 (Tue) 11:15pm Robert De Niro.
19 (Wed) Evening NT Associates’ dinner.
20 (Thur) 11am rehearsing NM, Act 2.
21 (Fri) Auditions with SG for Otherwise Engaged (OE). 7:30pm Ga
meeting.
22 (Sat) Announces to AF that he has told VM about them. An hour
on the phone with PH concerning NM (Diaries: 154). 1pm par-
ents and tells them about AF and VM. Meets Philip Larkin at
Mermaid Theatre.
24 (Mon) 1:15pm SS: Connaught.
25 (Tue) 10:30pm SS. 1pm PH.
26 (Wed) 3pm auditions. MC, SG regarding OE.
27 (Thur) Meets AF at Royal Lancaster Hotel: gives her the initial bound
copy of NM.
April
1 (Tue) Shaw’s Heartbreak House directed by John Schlesinger
NT, then RS.
2 (Wed) Morning rehearsals of NM. Afternoon IH and Martin
Amis.
3 (Thur) Eyre Methuen publish NM (BR: A36a). Hears that Mary
Ure has died. NT Associates’ lunch.
4–8 (Fri–Tue) NM rehearsals (Diaries: 157).
5 (Sat) 1pm KB.
6 (Sun) 1pm DM. 7pm HW.
7 (Mon) Lunch Peter Stevens (NT General Administrator), PH. HP
and PH discuss pauses which PH finds ‘less potent’ than
in other HP plays. HP responds that H and OT ‘were
primarily about sex and the pauses therefore reverber-
ated with half-meanings and suggested meanings. The
pauses in [NM] are much more clearly a matter of threat
and of tension, as in [C].’ 5–8pm James Reeve paintings
exhibition.
8 (Tue) Breakfast PH. 1pm lunch JGi, RR. Then OE auditions.
10 (Thur) 1:30pm Mary Ure’s funeral.
11 (Fri) Afternoon NM public dress rehearsal Royalty Theatre.
12 (Sat) Goes with Daniel to Michael Frayn’s Alphabetical Order
Mayfair Theatre then they dine at Odin’s.
13–14 (Sun–Mon) NM rehearsals.
13 (Sun) 11:30am Louis Marks (LM).
14 (Mon) Celebrates JGi’s 75th birthday. Lunch AF.
16–18 (Wed–Fri) NM rehearsals and preview.
19 (Sat) 5:30pm JBa.
20 (Sun) AF tells her husband about her relationship with HP. 6pm SS.
22 (Tue) Signs special Karnac Books NM limited edition (150 copies; BR:
A36b). Lunch PH. 2pm NM first-night run-through.
23 (Wed) Lunch AF. NM opens OV. First-night party held at PH’s Barbican
flat. HP tells PH ‘The only thing he was certain of was his rela-
tionship with Antonia.’
24 (Thur) Reviews of NM ‘good but careful’ (Diaries: 158–60).
25 (Fri) Morning LM. Noon Klaus Juncker. Afternoon Hove.
26 (Sat) Wedding party Bakewells.
28 (Mon) Moves into SS’s flat at Grosvenor House.
29 (Tue) 12:30pm KB. Late afternoon BBC to view OT.
May
1 (Thur) 1pm Henry T. Weinstein.
2 (Fri) 10:30am JW. 8pm Rachel Billington (AF’s sister).
3 (Sat) 1pm DP.
6–15 (Tue–Thur) HP, AF stay in Paris at Hotel Lancaster. Meets BB, Eric
Kahane.
15 (Thur) Back at Grosvenor House. VM suing for divorce on the
grounds of HP’s admitted adultery.
16–17 (Fri–Sat) Financial concerns: writes for AF the poem ‘Paris’ (BR:
C19).
16 (Fri) 12:45pm VM, Daniel at Scott’s. 5pm re-meets Daniel.
17 (Sat) Lunch Daniel. 4pm Hove.
19 (Mon) 6pm GV.
20 (Tue) 4pm JW. 6:30pm Emma Tennant (novelist, editor, friend
of AF). 8pm John Wells.
21 (Wed) 12:30pm MC. 1pm lunch SG.
22 (Thur) Visits Daniel in Regent’s Park. VM in Crete.
30 (Fri) 11:30pm SG. HP, AF dine with Diana Phipps (DPh).
31 (Sat) 6:30pm SS.
June
HP learns that The Room, BP and DW have been translated into Korean
(HPA).
2 (Mon) Noon VM.
3 (Tue) Noon SS. 5pm Daniel.
4 (Wed) 10am ED. 1pm SG.
6 (Fri) 1pm HW: Royal Lancaster Hotel. 5pm Daniel.
7 (Sat) 10:15am SS. Letter Times, 13g (BR: F8).
9–13 (Mon–Fri) OE rehearsals.
9 (Mon) 12:45pm lunch MC. Following rehearsals AF.
10 (Tue) 12pm JW. 7:30pm SB’s Happy Days OV.
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11 (Wed) Morning HP, AF at Grosvenor House. HP proposes to AF

(Must: 22). 7:30pm NM and then PH.
12 (Thur) Evening Hove.
13 (Fri) Meets AF at the Belvedere where she accepts HP’s
proposal.
14 (Sat) AF, HP tell Hugh Fraser.
16 (Mon) AF attends HP’s ICA reading of Philip Larkin’s poems.
17 (Tue) 6pm Daniel, VM.
19 (Thur) 12:30pm rehearsal.
20 (Fri) HP, AF dine with George Weidenfeld (GW).
23–24 (Mon–Tue) Rehearsals. Meets EK, SS.
25 (Wed) Noon SS, then AF.
26 (Thur) Rehearsal.
28 (Sat) 11am SS. HP, AF meet for drinks.
29 (Sun) Leaves Hanover Terrace home. 6pm AF. 7pm SS.
30 (Mon) 11am rehearsal. 1pm lunch Daniel. 2:30pm rehearsal.
7pm HP, AF dinner Peter Eyre.
July
1–5 (Tue–Sat) OE rehearsals.
2 (Wed) 1pm lunch MC, SG.
3 (Thur) 6:30pm John Schlesinger, then AF.
5 (Sat) 4pm AF. 7pm AF, Daniel at Grosvenor House. Then dinner
Penelope Aitken (friend of AF).
6 (Sun) To Oxford, Randolph Hotel.
7 (Mon) OE dress rehearsal.
8 (Tue) Lunch SG, AF. OE opens in Oxford.
9 (Wed) Morning MC, SG. 3pm OE rehearsal. 10pm cast supper.
11 (Fri) OE photo call. Michael Owen interview Evening Standard,
20–1 (BR: G42).
12 (Sat) HP’s XI Guardian. HP living in DP’s house located in Strand-
on-the-Green.
15 (Tue) 1:15pm Daniel. 6pm AF. 8pm DP. NM transfers to Wyndham’s
Theatre.
16 (Wed) Oxford for OE. Dinner SG.
17 (Thur) Meets AF.
19 (Sat) Meets PH in Wallingford.
21 (Mon) OE opens in Richmond. Lunch VM. 3:45pm SS then
rehearsal.
22 (Tue) 12:30pm SG. 2:30pm Daniel.
23 (Wed) 6pm AF. 7pm OE.
24 (Thur) Rehearsal.
25 (Fri) Noon IH. 2pm Daniel. 3pm rehearsal Queen’s Theatre, London.
27 (Sun) PW.
28 (Mon) 1:15pm Daniel. 4pm rehearsal.
29 (Tue) At Buscot, Oxfordshire with AF. VM talks to gossip column-
ist William Hickey of the Daily Express with the headline:
‘Antonia Accused by [HP’s] Wife’ (Billington: 254).
30 (Wed) OE opens Queen’s Theatre.
August
HP and AF return to London. living at Launceston Place, South Kensington.
5 (Tue) Meets DP, Daniel, HW.
6 (Wed) Hove.
7 (Thur) 5pm SS.
8–10 (Fri–Sun) SS, EK.
11 (Mon) 7:30pm JW.
12 (Tue) 6pm parents.
13 (Wed) Lunch JBa. 8:30pm MBis.
14 (Thur) 1pm PW.
15 (Fri) 1pm lunch GV. 8pm HW, Daniel.
16 (Sat) 6pm SG. 8pm OE with Daniel.
17 (Sun) AF moves in with HP at 33 Launceston Place. HP with
Daniel visits PH and his family at Wallingford. Evening to
airport to collect AF (Diaries: 180).
18 (Mon) 8pm SGs.
19 (Tue) Lunch AF.
20 (Wed) Evening OE cast dinner.
21 (Thur) HP, AF dine with HW.
22 (Fri) 4pm OE rehearsal.
23 (Sat) 8pm SS.
24 (Sun) AF watches HP play cricket at Iver.
28 (Thur) HP, AF attend production of NM, dine with JGi, RR and
Daniel.
September
3 (Wed) 8pm HP, AF dine with GW.
4 (Thur) OE understudies. 1pm lunch IH. 8pm Barry Collins’ Judgment ICA.
5 (Fri) 8pm PW.
6 (Sat) 3:30pm Maurice Jarre, who composes music for LT. HP, AF din-
ner DP.
8 (Mon) 3:30pm HW.
9 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch DM.
10 (Wed) 1:30pm lunch SG.
11 (Thur) Hove. 8pm OE with SGs.
15 (Mon) 1pm JB.
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16 (Tue) HP, AF dine with TSs.

18 (Thur) 1pm John Wells. 7:30pm.Tony Harrison’s Phaedra Britannica after
Racine’s Phèdre, then dinner MBis.
19 (Fri) HP, AF dine with JBa and Jack Emery ( JE).
23 (Tue) HP lunch John Russell Brown: L’Epicure.
24 (Wed) Evening Oxford, FW.
26 (Fri) Discusses m with GV who produces BBC radio presentation with
HP as ‘Man’ (see BR: W35).
29 (Mon) 8:30pm MC.
30 (Tue) HP, AF dine at Oxford home of A.J.P. Taylor (historian, Must: 38).
October
1 (Wed) HP, AF visit TSs.
2 (Thur) 1pm lunch CM. 3:30pm NT planning meeting. Evening OE.
6 (Mon) Lunch Gore Vidal.
7 (Tue) 8pm Arnold Wesker.
8 (Wed) Afternoon GV to discuss m BBC playback. 7:30pm OE.
9 (Thur) 3pm OE.
10 (Fri) 11am OE rehearsal. 4:30pm Bu performed in Brighton. AF,
HP celebrate his birthday.
11 (Sat) Parents.
14 (Tue) HP, AF dine with John ( JG) and Miriam Gross. 9:25pm
watches SG’s Plaintiffs and Defendants BBC1.
15 (Wed) Evening NT Associates’ meeting: HP angry (Diaries: 190).
17 (Fri) Lunch PW. 8pm Ga dinner.
18–21 (Sat–Tue) HP, AF in Paris discuss with JL ‘Proust’ filming.
22 (Wed) 1pm lunch MN. 9:30pm watches OT BBC2, directed by CM.
23 (Thur) NT planning committee.
24 (Fri) 6pm Maurice Jarre. 8pm dinner CM.
25 (Sat) 6pm sees JL’s The Romantic Englishwoman at the Plaza.
28 (Tue) 6pm Judy Daish ( JD): subsequently replaces JW as HP’s
agent.
29 (Wed) 1pm lunch SG.
30 (Thur) Celebrates OE’s 100th performance.
November
5 (Wed) Hove. Evening NT Associates’ dinner.
6 (Thur) 1pm lunch HW. 2:30pm OE.
8 (Sat) Warwick, poetry reading.
10 (Mon) 5pm A.S. Byatt, PH.
11 (Tue) Evening dinner JB.
13 (Thur) Morning OE understudies. 7:30pm Ga meeting: Simpson’s Steak-
house.
15 (Sat) Bizet’s Carmen CGa.
17 (Mon) Evening SGs.

18 (Tue) 3:30pm HW. 8pm Oxford, Francis Warner.
19 (Wed) 5:30pm HW. 8:15pm NT Associates’ dinner.
20 (Thur) Morning OE understudies. 1pm lunch GV.
22 (Sat) Evening dinner Maurice Jarre: Le Gavroche.
23 (Sun) AF, HP, Valerie Grove.
25 (Tue) 1pm PW.
26 (Wed) Noon HW.
27 (Thur) Divorce from VM postponed. 7pm NT planning committee.
28 (Fri) 7:30pm Bernard Shaw’s Too True to Be Good Ald.
29 (Sat) 8pm CM. ME’s German translation of NM opens Hamburg: 35
curtain calls.
30 (Sun) TSs.
December
2 (Tue) 12:30pm lunch SG. 7pm Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier CGa.
3 (Wed) 1pm lunch GW. m BBC Radio 3.
8 (Mon) Hamlet OV.
9 (Tue) HP, AF attend Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire in Nottingham.
12 (Fri) 1:30pm lunch SG. Croatian performances NM, Zagreb.
14 (Sun) Ga party.
17 (Wed) Daniel wins award to attend Magdalen College, Oxford.
18 (Thur) 6:30pm HW: Swiss Tavern. 8pm sees Max Wall in SB’s Krapp’s
Last Tape, directed by Patrick Magee, Greenwich Theatre.
19 (Fri) NM Schiller Theater, Berlin.
20 (Sat) 7pm Richard Johnson, actor and producer.
21 (Sun) HP, AF Christmas party.
23 (Tue) 1:30pm PH. 8pm Emma Tennant.
26 (Fri) With RH in Hampshire.
27 (Sat) 8pm evening with Bryan Robson (Daniel’s schoolmaster) and
Mrs Robson.
31 (Wed) DP party. 7:50pm Three Men in a Boat BBC2.
1976
January
2 (Fri) Evening Strauss’ Salome English National Opera.
4 (Sun) Evening MBis, Francis Wyndham (FWy).
5 (Mon) Meets VM at the Bunch of Grapes.
6 (Tue) Lunch Violet Powell (wife of Anthony Powell). Afternoon Rowena
Cooper, actress.
7 (Wed) The Examination recorded BBC World Service at Bush House.
8 (Thur) Lunch Michael Gambon (MGa): Café Royal Grill. Evening R.D.
Smith and his wife, Olivia Manning (novelist), then AB party.
9 (Fri) NT NM understudies with PH. 8pm GV.
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13 (Tue) 1pm JW.

14 (Wed) Hove.
16 (Fri) Lunch JE.
17 (Sat) Morning nets. Afternoon OE.
18 (Sun) Evening PW.
19 (Mon) Lunch CM. 7pm Ga supper.
20 (Tue) 6:15pm filming OE clip.
21 (Wed) 6pm NT Associates’ dinner.
22 (Thur) Lunch SG. Evening Ben Travers’ Plunder at NT, then
with RH, AF, JGi, RR to celebrate the end of NM at Rules.
23 (Fri) 6pm NM film clip. 7pm PH.
24 (Sat) Last night of NM Wyndham’s Theatre.
25 (Sun) HP, AF poetry reading Launceston Place. HP reads T.S.
‘Eliot brilliantly’ (Must: 46).
26–28 (Mon–Wed) Rehearsing OE.
27 (Tue) Lunch MK. Evening drinks SG.
28 (Wed) Lunch IH. 5pm NT rehearsals.
29 (Thur) Parents.
30 (Fri) Morning rehearsal. Lunch MC, SG.
31 (Sat) RH.
February
2–4 (Mon–Wed) Rehearsals.
2 (Mon) Lunch VM. 6pm NT Associates’ dinner.
3 (Tue) Lunch MC, SG.
7 (Sat) Last-night party for AB in OE.
9 (Mon) MGa’s first night in OE.
10 (Tue) Evening dinner RHs.
12 (Thur) Berlin.
14 (Sat) Hamburg.
15 (Sun) Paris, meets Eric Kahane.
18 (Wed) London. NT Associates’ dinner.
19 (Thur) Lunch JW.
20 (Fri) Lunch SG: Café Royal.
21 (Sat) 11am C auditions. 4pm PW.
22 (Sun) 1:30pm Robert De Niro. 8pm dinner JG.
24 (Tue) 6pm The New Review reception.
25 (Wed) 1pm VM.
26 (Thur) Hove. OT on radio, BBC. Poem ‘Later’ (The New Review, 2:
23: 26; BR: C17).
March
2 (Tue) Afternoon JW. Evening MBis.
3 (Wed) Lunch KB, Fulton Mackay (acts in C revival): L’Epicure. Afternoon
MC then Fred Warner (diplomat) and wife Simone.
5 (Fri) Shaw Theatre discusses C.

6 (Sat) HP, AF spend weekend at Sissinghurst with Christopher Falkus
(CF), AF’s Weidenfeld & Nicolson editor. CF teaches HP bridge
(Must: 54).
7 (Sun) HP, AF meet Nigel Nicolson and his family.
8 (Mon) C initial rehearsal. Early evening CM, then 1 Henry IV, RSC,
Ald.
9 (Tue) BAFTA lunch.
11 (Thur) Lunch Alison Lurie, American author. 6pm on BBC1 Nationwide.
12 (Fri) Evening SGs.
13 (Sat) Morning nets, then Waiting for Godot St Paul’s School.
14 (Sun) 3pm H film Curzon cinema.
15 (Mon) Lunch PW: La Loggia.
16 (Tue) Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister. NT Associates’
dinner.
17 (Wed) 6pm NT Associates’ dinner.
18 (Thur) Morning squash. Evening 2 Henry IV. Bu at the Curzon cinema
for two weeks.
19 (Fri) Lunch V.S. and Pat Naipaul with HP, AF.
20 (Sat) NT meeting, then Henry V Ald.
21 (Sun) Evening bridge CFs.
22 (Mon) Lunch JW. Evening Peter Eyre, Anna Massey, actress.
23 (Tue) 5:30pm HW, then dinner Warners.
25 (Thur) Morning meets Clive Donner and Peter O’Toole, discusses
involvement with filming of Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male:
HP plays lawyer Saul Abrahams. Lunch MC, SG. 5:30pm LO. HP,
AF to the Lyttelton Theatre (Ly), see John Osborne’s Watch It
Come Down: regard it as so bad that they leave halfway through.
Plays: One published by Methuen (BR: 1ia).
26 (Fri) 11am JW. 8pm SS.
27 (Sat) Morning nets. 6pm SS.
28 (Sun) Noon HW. Evening PW.
29 (Mon) Hove: also visits LOs.
30 (Tue) Dinner JE, JBa.
April
1 (Thur) 6:15pm C dress rehearsal.
2 (Fri) C preview.
3 (Sat) Morning shooting of Rogue Male.
4 (Sun) Lunch TSs. Evening Nicholas Mosley.
5 (Mon) Evening FWy.
6 (Tue) Opening night of C revival directed by KB.
7 (Wed) Evening Daniel.
8 (Thur) HP, AF fly to Zagreb, for Serbo-Croatian performance of NM.
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9 (Fri) Dubrovnik, Croatia. HP prepares for upcoming reading of SB’s

The Unnameable (Must: 55).
12 (Mon) The Lover and Co rehearsal.
13 (Tue) SB’s 70th birthday.
19 (Mon) London.
20 (Tue) Afternoon JW.
21 (Wed) Lunchtime, to TS’s Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land Almost Free
Theatre.
22 (Thur) Evening GV.
23 (Fri) Afternoon rehearsal SB reading. 5:30pm MK.
24 (Sat) Evening SB’s Happy Days then HP reading SB’s The Unnameable Ly.
25 (Sun) Ga first game of the season.
26 (Mon) New York: Hotel Pierre.
May
Short story ‘The Coast’ (Transatlantic Review, 56/56: 5) (BR: D5).
1 (Sat) London. JW birthday party.

2 (Sun) 5pm All the President’s Men ABC1 cinema, Shaftesbury Avenue.
3 (Mon) Co rehearsal. Lunch JW. Evening CFs, bridge.
4 (Tue) Co for Manchester performance.
5 (Wed) Midland Hotel, Manchester.
6 (Thur) London. Lunchtime, drinks with SB: Royal Court Hotel. HP,
AF opening night Endgame, then supper party for SB at Jocelyn
Herbert’s, designer (Must: 57).
7 (Fri) Morning squash. Lunch SG: L’Epicure. 7:30pm Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin CGa.
10 (Mon) Directing Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit (BS) at NT. Unlike Noël
Coward HP does ‘not regard it as improbable [or] as a farce’
(Diaries: 232).
12 (Wed) Final H showing at the Curzon. 6pm NT Associates’ meeting.
14 (Fri) 6pm Harrison Birtwistle, discuss music for William Archibald’s
The Innocents (I). 10:15pm party for SB.
17 (Mon) NM last night
19 (Wed) Late afternoon PH.
20 (Thur) 6:15pm PW: Waldorf. 8pm dinner JBa, JE.
24 (Mon) HP, AF dine at Odin’s with TSs. TS confronts HP about the
extent of NM’s obscene language: ‘“This must be something in
you, Harold, waiting to get out.” Harold: “But I don’t plan my
characters’ lives.” Then to Tom: “Don’t you find they take over
sometimes?” Tom: “No”.’
28 (Fri) Bridge CFs.
29 (Sat) Final performance C revival.
30 (Sun) Cricket at Roehampton watched by AF (Must: 58).
June
Writes on removal of television recordings of drama (The New Review). Short
story ‘Problem’ (Transatlantic Review, 60: 30–1; BR: H5, D7).
1 (Tue) BS run-through. 8pm Fulton Mackay.
3 (Thur) Evening SB’s Play, That Time and Footfalls RC.
5 (Sat) 12:30pm TA.
7 (Mon) BS.
8 (Tue) Lunch Maria Ewing, American opera singer: in 1982
she marries PH.
10 (Thur) Parents’ 50th wedding anniversary.
11 (Fri) 7pm BS cast supper.
16–19 (Wed–Sat) BS dress rehearsals and previews.
22–23 (Mon–Wed) Rehearsals and previews of BS.
24 (Thur) BS first night directed by HP: during performance air
conditioning breaks down.
25 (Fri) BS mixed reviews.
26 (Sat) 11:30am JW.
27 (Sun) To New York for casting of I and OE. HP directs with
Pauline Flanagan in lead role.
June/July
Poems ‘Message’ and ‘The Doing So’ (The New Review, 4: 39/40: 26; BR: C18).
July
4 (Sun) ‘Thrilled’ by news of Israel’s rescue of Entebbe hostages (Must: 59).
12 (Mon) London.
13 (Tue) 7:30pm Webster’s The White Devil OV.
14 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch SG. 3pm LT screening.
15 (Thur) Lunch DP. 7pm Michael Frayn’s Donkey’s Years Globe Theatre,
then dinner MC.
16 (Fri) Voice-over for Rogue Male. Lunch Clive Donner.
19 (Mon) Dorset: resting and studying I.
31 (Sat) Last night of OE cast. Dinner SG.
August
2 (Mon) First night new OE cast.
5 (Thur) HP, AF visit East Coker. HP recites favourite lines from T.S. Eliot’s
‘Little Gidding’ in Four Quartets ending ‘Now and in England’.
16 (Mon) Rehearsals for I then production meeting.
17 (Tue) Lunch Claire Bloom (CB). Anniversary of the day AF joined HP
at 33 Launceston Place. HP fills the house with flowers. VM
remains at Hanover Terrace (Must: 62).
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20 (Fri) SB’s Waiting for Godot Oxford Playhouse: stays at Randolph

Hotel.
23 (Mon) Meets Pauline Flanagan.
24 (Tue) Lunch BS cast. 8pm dinner JW: Odin’s.
26 (Thur) Lunch PW.
29 (Sun) RB.
30 (Mon) 1pm lunch Harrison Birtwistle. Sees rehearsal of Marlowe’s
Tamburlaine Olivier Theatre (Ol): is ‘bowled over by it’ (Diaries:
254).
31 (Tue) Lunch Daniel: L’Epicure.
September
3 (Fri) Evening bridge CFs.
4 (Sat) 1pm Daniel. 3pm Harrison Birtwistle.
5 (Sun) Wallingford, PH. Then flies to New York.
6 (Mon) Rehearsal New York production of I.
7 (Tue) I cast lunch.
9 (Thur) Flies from New York to Boston.
10 (Fri) Dress rehearsal for Boston production of I.
13 (Mon) Colonial Theater, Boston. NM opens Royal Alexandra Theatre,
Toronto.
14 (Tue) I opening night Boston. Stays at the Ritz Carlton, Boston.
15 (Wed) Lunch Pauline Flanagan. Evening CB.
22 (Wed) 9pm Rogue Male BBC2. HP unwell.
26 (Sun) AF joins HP in Boston.
29 (Wed) AF, HP to Provincetown, MA (Must: 64–5).
October
3 (Sun) London. BBC Radio 3 production of SB’s Rough for Radio
I. HP plays ‘Man’ role.
4 (Mon) I opens Philadelphia.
5 (Tue) 1pm Daniel. 7pm JW.
7 (Thur) Daniel starts at Oxford.
8 (Fri) Lunch SG. 3:30pm JW.
10 (Sun) To Hove, poetry party.
11 (Mon) NM opens Washington, DC.
17 (Sun) HP, AF New York.
18 (Mon) I cast meeting New York.
19–20 (Tue–Wed) I dress rehearsals.
21 (Thur) HP directs I, Morosco Theatre, New York City.
22 (Fri) Lunch Arthur Cantor, producer, and others. 6pm CB.
25 (Mon) London.
27 (Wed) To doctor. 1pm lunch KB: Odin’s. 6pm NT Associates’
dinner.
29 (Fri) Sees VM in Edward Albee’s All Over, Theatre Royal, Brighton.

31 (Sun) 4pm PW.
November
2 (Tue) Lunch JBa. Evening Denis Cannan’s Dear Daddy
Ambassadors Theatre.
6 (Sat) Sees Daniel, Oxford. 6pm John Fuller, poet, academic.
Evening sees SG’s Dog Days.
7 (Sun) The Fullers. Lunch Daniel.
8 (Mon) Lunch VM: Odin’s.
9 (Tue) Lunch SG: L’Epicure. Evening HW.
10 (Wed) Lunch Irving Wardle, theatre critic: L’Epicure. 8pm GW
party. Film LT released in the USA; in 1977 in the UK.
New York Film Critics’ Circle Award nomination for Best
Screenwriting and other awards.
11 (Thur) 3pm PW. 6pm involved with Tamburlaine NT.
12 (Fri) 1pm JW.
14 (Sun) Flies to New York. Evening Lauren Bacall party.
15 (Mon) OE rehearsals. LT opens in New York.
16 (Tue) 8pm Tom Courtenay.
17 (Wed) Afternoon rehearsal. 6pm Trevor Griffiths, dramatist.
7:45pm on network television.
18 (Thur) Lunch Tom Courtenay. Afternoon rehearsals.
19 (Fri) Morning understudies.
24 (Wed) Philip Glass’ opera Einstein on the Beach at the Met.
26–27 (Fri–Sat) Rehearsals.
28 (Sun) Evening SG.
29 (Mon) Morning rehearsal. 6pm SG. Evening Hammersteins.
Winter
Poems ‘Paris’ and ‘I Know the Place’ (Bananas, 9: 35; BR: C19).
December
2 (Thur) Lunch SG. Evening party for NM.
3 (Fri) Evening CB, Philip Roth (PR) and SG.
4 (Sat) Last Broadway night NM.
5 (Sun) Noon SG. Dinner Lillian Hellman. Granada televises Co.
6 (Mon) OE rehearsal directed by HP.
8 (Wed) At the Barrymores.
9 (Thur) Early evening Arthur Schlesinger.
12 (Sun) AF leaves for London, HP to Boston.
13–14 (Mon–Tue) OE in Boston.
15 (Wed) OE opens Boston.
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18 (Sat) Meets Penelope Mortimer.

20–22 (Mon–Wed) OE rehearsals
24 (Fri) To Toronto, meets HW.
29 (Wed) Returns to Boston.
1977
Plays Vanek in BBC Radio production of Václav Havel’s Audience and Private
View.
January
2 (Sun) Washington, DC.
3 (Mon) Washington preview of OE.
4 (Tue) 1pm TS. OE opens Washington.
7 (Fri) London.
10 (Mon) 1pm JW. 6pm with AF for Scottish love poems recital Ly.
11 (Tue) 12:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. Evening buffet dinner
at GW’s for Nigel Nicolson’s 80th birthday.
12 (Wed) 1pm lunch PW: Loggia.
13 (Thur) Morning JW.
14 (Fri) Hove.
15 (Sat) Nets.
16 (Sun) Lunch, plays bridge, Iver, Bucks.
17 (Mon) Lunch John Hale, literary agent. 6pm dinner JBa, JE.
19 (Wed) NT Associates’ dinner.
20 (Thur) Evening dinner SGs, Mosleys.
23 (Sun) HP, AF fly to Washington, DC.
24–26 (Mon–Wed) OE rehearsals.
27 (Thur) Lunch Harrimans. Evening RSt.
28 (Fri) Lunch British Embassy, Washington.
29 (Sat) RSt party, then party at Carl Bernstein’s.
30 (Sat) Evening Tom Wolfe, George Plimpton.
February
1 (Tue) OE.
2 (Wed) OE New York.
3 (Thur) Evening Arthur Miller, SG.
4 (Fri) Lunch SS. 6pm SG.
5 (Sat) OE cast party.
6 (Sun) HP, AF fly to Haiti: Olafson Hotel.
9 (Wed) Lunch American Embassy.
15 (Tue) Flies from Haiti to New York then London.
18 (Fri) 1pm SG.
21 (Mon) Noon VM. 5:30pm PH.
22 (Tue) Lunch GV: Little Acropolis. Evening dinner MC, AAy.

23 (Wed) Afternoon JW.
24 (Thur) Final night NM Ly: ran for 378 performances. The cast gave HP
‘a tiny cricket bat marked 378 not out – for no one believed
that was the end of it’ (Diaries: 285). Letter ‘No Man’s Land’
(Guardian, 10; BR: F9).
26 (Sat) Hugh Whitemore’s Stevie Theatre Royal, Brighton. HP, AF stay at
LOs’.
28 (Mon) Lunch JBa.
March
Living at 33 Launceston Place, W8. Short story ‘Lola’, The New Review, 3: 36:
7 (BR: D6).
1 (Tue) Lunch HW: L’Epicure.
2 (Wed) Lunchtime to NT, meets PH and Peter Stevens. Oxford, first
night of Troilus and Cressida: Daniel acting.
3 (Thur) Oxford, sees Daniel, meets TSs.
4 (Fri) 1pm lunch SS. Evening Ga committee meeting.
7 (Mon) Lunch DM: L’Epicure. 3:30pm JW.
9 (Wed) Noon VM. 6pm NT Associates’ dinner (Diaries: 288).
11 (Fri) Evening JBa, JE.
12 (Sat) Daniel comes home. AF leaves. 6pm SS.
13 (Sun) Manchester.
14 (Mon) Václav Havel plays, Manchester.
15 (Tue) Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Manchester.
17 (Thur) AAy’s Bedroom Farce NT: greatly amuses HP.
18 (Fri) 11am PW.
19 (Sat) 2:30pm NT Associates’ meeting.
21 (Mon) 1pm RB. 8pm SS.
22 (Tue) 12:30 pm Daniel. 4pm HW.
23 (Wed) 11:15pm squash CF. 7:30pm Julius Caesar Ol.
24 (Thur) 6:30pm CM. 8:30pm dinner JW.
25 (Fri) 1:30pm SG: L’Epicure.
26 (Sat) Noon Arthur Wellard, Ga members Cricketers Sutton.
28 (Mon) 1pm GV. 6pm HW, Daniel.
29 (Tue) Hove.
30 (Wed) 7:30pm SGs.
31 (Thur) Angus Wilson, novelist, and partner Tony Garrett dine with
HP, AF.
April
1 (Fri) Dorset.
19 (Tue) London, drives Daniel to Oxford.
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20 (Wed) 2:15pm CM’s production of RB’s State of Revolution run-through

NT.
21 (Thur) Morning squash CF. 1pm lunch BB.
23 (Sat) Afternoon VM, CFs.
24 (Sun) Morning Daniel. First Ga cricket match.
26 (Tue) 8pm The Passion at Cottesloe Theatre (Cot), NT.
27 (Wed) 7:30pm Ben Jonson’s Volpone Ol.
28 (Thur) Dinner SGs.
29 (Fri) Hove.
30 (Sat) PW’s birthday lunch: Connaught.
May
2 (Mon) Lunch JW. 8pm bridge CFs.
3 (Tue) Opening night RB’s State of Revolution Birmingham Rep.
4–5 (Wed–Thur) HP in Worcester.
9 (Mon) Paris.
10 (Tue) Sees BB, returns to London.
12 (Thur) 3pm JW, MBis.
13 (Fri) Morning PW. Lunch SG. HP contributes to Winchester
Theatre fund.
14 (Sat) Oxford, to see Daniel.
16 (Mon) 1pm IH.
17 (Tue) Lunch Nick Hern (NH). 6pm HWi.
19 (Thur) Morning PW. Lunch De Niros. Hears John Casey,
Cambridge academic, lecture at the British Academy. Eyre
Methuen publish Plays: Two (BR:li(ii)).
20 (Fri) Lunch JBa.
21 (Sat) Lunch John Schlesinger, Rebecca West.
23 (Mon) Noon VM.
25 (Wed) HP, PH discuss bad industrial relations at Cot.
28 (Sat) HP takes AF to see MCC play Australia at Lord’s.
29 (Sun) 1pm lunch John Casey.
30 (Mon) HP speaks at NT Equity members meeting concerning NT
strike (Diaries: 297).
June
Short story ‘Problem’, Transatlantic Review, 60: 30–1 (BR: D7).
1 (Wed) Evening JG.
2 (Thur) OE receives Tony nomination.
3 (Fri) 4pm JW.
4 (Sat) Evening HW.
5 (Sun) Plays for Ga; takes AF to the game.
7 (Tue) 7:45pm TS’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Young Vic then
TSs.
8 (Wed) Lunch PW. 6pm NT Associates’ dinner.

9 (Thur) Hove: parents’ anniversary.
10 (Fri) 1pm TA. 7pm King Lear OV.
11 (Sat) 6pm VM.
13 (Mon) Leaves for break in Cap Ferrat, south of France.
16 (Thur) London.
17 (Fri) Lord’s, test match, England v Australia. 8pm Fosters.
18 (Sat) Test match. Evening Howard Barker’s Fair Slaughter RC.
21 (Tue) 1pm JW. Evening dinner party for AF given by GW.
22 (Wed) 5:30pm NH.
23 (Thur) Evening NT Associates’ dinner.
24 (Fri) Lunch SG, then nets.
25 (Sat) Dinner MBis.
26 (Sun) Dinner SG.
27 (Mon) 1pm Daniel. 4pm JW. 6pm BB. 8pm CFs.
28 (Tue) 11:30pm NT meeting.
29 (Wed) Oxford.
30 (Thur) RHs.
July
‘Pinter on Cricket’, BBC Radio (BR: J37).
2 (Sat) London.
4 (Mon) 5pm HW. 8pm TSs.
5 (Tue) 1pm Cedric Messina, BBC Radio and TV producer. 8pm
dinner SGs and others.
6 (Wed) 3pm JW.
7 (Thur) Evening Peter Eyre.
9 (Sat) 1pm lunch JLs. 8:30pm dinner AF: L’Artiste Assoiffé
then drinks Ladbroke Arms.
10 (Sun) New York: Carlyle Hotel.
11–18 (Mon–Mon) OE rehearses with full cast.
19 (Tue) Leaves New York.
20 (Wed) 1pm lunch Cedric Messina.
21 (Thur) 1pm lunch Terence Baker. 6:30pm SG, then HW.
22 (Fri) 5:30pm The Spy Who Loved Me showing.
23 (Sat) 2:30pm Comedy of Errors Ald.
25 (Mon) 1pm PH.
26 (Tue) 4pm Daniel.
27 (Wed) HP, AF holiday at Tullynally Castle, Co. Westmeath,
Ireland; stay with Thomas (AF’s brother) and Val
Pakenham (TPs), RS and family in Galway.
29 (Fri) Late evening HP returns to London.
30 (Sat) Noon SG. 2pm HP’s XI Guardian.
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August
2 (Wed) Joins AF in Ireland.
5 (Fri) HP returns to London.
6 (Sat) Tea with Daniel.
7 (Sun) 7pm EO.
9 (Tue) Goes to Oxford with Daniel.
10 (Wed) AF and others return from Ireland.
12 (Fri) Moves to AF’s family home at 52 Campden Hill Square, W8. Has
his desk, chair and GV’s cricket picture from Hanover Terrace
(Must: 83).
16 (Tue) 7:30pm Kabuki Sadler’s Wells Theatre.
17 (Wed) Lord’s, Gillette Cup semi-final.
18 (Thur) Noon TA. 1:15pm MC, KB. 6pm Terence Baker. 8pm CFs.
19 (Fri) Hove. 7:30pm Much Ado About Nothing Ald.
20 (Sat) 11am Daniel.
22 (Mon) Noon AS: Waldorf.
23 (Tue) 11am Daniel.
25 (Thur) Noon HW. Afternoon with PH: HP tells him ‘Something is afoot.’
PH writes, HP’s ‘writing again; being in no man’s land is over.
He’s moved into Antonia’s house and he has a little study there
where he feels at peace. His books are up, and he can work. Hard
graft is required he says, but I can expect a play’ (Diaries: 311).
26 (Fri) 1pm Daniel.
27 (Sat) Lunch CFs, Johnsons, FWy.
30 (Tue) CFs, Sissinghurst.
September
1 (Thur) 8pm Bu showing, Crown Theatre, Wardour Street, London W1.
2 (Fri) 6pm NH.
3 (Sat) 12:30pm JLs. 5pm Richmond, sees Alan Bennett’s The Old
Country. 8pm CFs.
4 (Sun) Noon John Osborne party.
5 (Mon) Oxford, meets Daniel. 5pm John Fuller.
6 (Tue) Daniel.
8 (Thur) Daniel. 8:15pm JW, meets Joan Didion.
9 (Fri) Noon Ben Kingsley. Dinner Peter Eyre, EO. NM on tour Germany
and Austria.
10 (Sat) 1pm Roger Scruton, philosopher.
12 (Mon) 9am PW. 10am Night School first reading. 1pm PW. 3pm Daniel.
13 (Tue) 1pm PH. 4pm Daniel.
14 (Wed) Lunch Irving Wardle. 6pm NT Associates’ dinner.
15 (Thur) 1pm HW. 3:30pm Daniel. 8pm dinner JBa, JE, Longfords.
16 (Fri) HW, HP to Oxford. 4pm Daniel.
17 (Sat) 8:30pm dinner SGs.
18 (Sun) Grand Hotel, Eastbourne to write.

19 (Mon) Hove.
20 (Tue) 12:30pm Daniel. 1:30pm PW. 6pm Ian Holm.
21 (Wed) Noon involved with Night School. 9pm watches TS’s Pro-
fessional Foul, BBC2, followed by Schlesingers’ party. Twenty-
fifth production of OT in German-speaking countries, opens at
Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf.
22 (Thur) 12:30pm Daniel. Evening to Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
for RH’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.
23 (Fri) London. 4pm Daniel. 8pm SS.
24 (Sat) Morning Night School.
26 (Mon) 1:30pm lunch SG: L’Epicure.
27 (Tue) Leeds, Night School.
28 (Wed) London. Night School recording. 6pm cast drinks.
29 (Thur) 4pm MC, SG. 8pm CFs.
30 (Fri) JB. The Proust Screenplay, American first edition, Grove Press (BR:
B3c).
October
2 (Sun) 1pm PW.
3 (Mon) 12:30pm JW. 5:30pm PH. 6pm NT. Evening Claire Tomalin,
biographer, and Michael Frayn, dramatist (Frayns), RHs.
4 (Tue) Hove.
5 (Wed) HP proposes again to AF (Must: 84). 4pm JW. Evening DP.
6 (Thur) Evening sees Eric Bentley’s Are You Now or Have You Ever Been …
Mayfair Theatre.
7 (Fri) Morning squash CF. 1:15pm lunch Anthony Quayle: Odin’s.
8:15pm sees Macbeth Donmar Warehouse.
8 (Sat) 5:15pm John O’Keeffe’s Wild Oats, RSC, Piccadilly Theatre.
9 (Sun) Evening bridge, CFs.
10 (Mon) Midday, MC, SG. 7:30pm Amnesty International concert.
11 (Tue) NT meets PH. 8:15pm JW.
12 (Wed) Flies to Nice.
12–19 Stays at SS’s St Tropez house. Reads Richard Hall’s biography
(Wed–Wed) of Stanley for directing SG’s The Rear Column (RCo).
19 (Wed) London. Evening Daniel.
20 (Thur) 6:30pm VM. 8pm MC.
21 (Fri) Brighton: father has an operation.
22 (Sat) Sunday Times invitation to contribute to ‘Books of the Year’:
chooses Robert Hewison’s Under Siege: Literary Life in London
1939–45.
24 (Mon) 10:30am MC. Lunch SG: Café Royal. Evening bridge.
25 (Tue) Morning tennis. Evening EO.
26 (Wed) 9:45pm watches DM’s Shooting the Chandelier, TV.
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27 (Thur) 4pm Daniel. Evening party for SG.

28 (Fri) Morning squash CF. 7:45pm Ibsen’s Rosmersholm Haymarket
Theatre. Then dinner CB, PR: Brasserie.
30 (Sun) Evening bridge CFs.
31 (Mon) Lunch SG. Evening NT Associates’ dinner.
November
1 (Tue) Lunch Peter Shaffer.
2 (Wed) Morning squash. Lunch RH: Giovanni’s. 5pm RCo. 6:30pm SG.
3 (Thur) 7:30pm Battle of the Bulge Warner Theatre, West End. HP starts
work on a drama which becomes Betrayal (B) (initially Unsolicited
Manuscript) (Must: 85–6).
5 (Sat) HP, AF attend Museum Tavern reading of W.S. Graham’s poetry.
Poems read by HP, TA and Geoffrey Godbert (GG).
6 (Sun) Noon TA, GG. 8pm CB, PR and others. 11pm Daniel.
7 (Mon) Lunch JBa. 3pm HW.
8 (Tue) Hove. 10pm Dickens’ Hard Times, Thames Television.
9 (Wed) Daniel.
10 (Thur) 1pm lunch PH. 3pm HW. 8pm dinner Peter Shaffer.
11 (Fri) 6pm NH.
13 (Sun) 8pm dinner Stephen Spender.
14 (Mon) 2pm Daniel. Evening dinner CFs.
15 (Tue) Works on B.
16 (Wed) Robert Lowell rehearsal NT. 8pm dinner JW.
17 (Thur) Morning squash. 1pm Daniel. 8pm bridge.
18 (Fri) Morning Daniel.
19 (Sat) JB dies: shortly after HP writes poem ‘Joseph Brearley
1909–1977’ (BR: C25).
23 (Wed) 1pm Daniel.
24 (Thur) Lunch GV. 6pm HW. 9:45pm CB, PR.
25 (Fri) Lunch SG. 5:30pm PW.
27 (Sun) 6pm RCo drinks
28 (Mon) MK. 8pm CFs.
29 (Tue) 5:30pm GV.
30 (Wed) Daniel. 4pm reception for Rebecca West.
December
1 (Thur) 6pm dinner JW.
2 (Fri) Morning squash. 7:30pm W.S. Graham poetry reading
Poetry Society.
3 (Sat) Noon W.S. Graham, his wife and GG.
5 (Mon) Late afternoon MK, then meeting NT.
5–10 (Mon–Sat) HP involved in NT production J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector
Calls.
6 (Tue) 2:30pm RCo auditions. 6pm IH.

7 (Wed) Evening emergency meeting NT.
8 (Thur) Evening NT Associates’ meeting: ‘No food, no wine.’ HP pro-
tests by leaving early ‘to have his dinner’ (Diaries: 325).
9 (Fri) Lunch Melvyn Bragg (MBr): Thompson’s. Cambridge, hears
John Casey lecture.
11 (Sun) Daniel. Evening EO.
12 (Mon) Noon RCo set. 1pm ED. 2pm participates in Robert Lowell
tribute, American Embassy. 6:30pm JBa. Evening Wycherley’s
The Country Wife NT.
13 (Tue) Morning RCo production meeting. Afternoon Daniel.
14 (Wed) 7:30pm Robert Lowell reading, American Embassy. 10pm PH.
15 (Thur) AF’s parents (Longfords) come to Christmas lunch.
16 (Fri) 6pm PW, DM. 8pm HWi.
17 (Sat) Hove.
19 (Mon) 3pm JW. 6pm HW.
20 (Tue) RCo auditions.
21 (Wed) 6pm The New Review party. 8pm SGs.
22 (Thur) 5:30pm RR.
23 (Fri) HP reunion with MG, who has flown in from Australia.
26 (Mon) 7:30pm preview of Ken Hill’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame Cot.
27 (Tue) Writing B.
28 (Wed) Lunch BB. Evening poetry reading.
30 (Fri) Late evening dinner Richard Johnson: La Barca.
31 (Sat) Finishes first draft of play called Torcello (Must: 87). DP’s New
Year’s Eve party.
1978
B specially bound Karnac edition published (BR: A37b).
January
1–6 (Sun–Thur) HP, AF Grand Hotel, Eastbourne. Working on B.
3 (Tue) HP takes AF to visit his parents in Hove.
6 (Fri) London.
7 (Sat) Morning nets. 2pm SG, RHs.
8 (Sun) Celebration third anniversary HP, AF meeting, joined by
RHs. HP works on White Wedding, new title for B: refuses
to delete expletives from the Granada filming of NM.
9–12 (Mon–Thur) RCo rehearsals.
11 (Wed) Late afternoon AF to hospital.
12 (Thur) AF operation. 6:30pm AF. 8:30pm Daniel.
13 (Fri) 1pm RCo rehearsal. 8pm JW.
16–18 (Mon–Wed) RCo rehearsals.
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16 (Mon) 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.

19 (Thur) 10am HW. 8pm Robert Lowell rehearsal.
20 (Fri) 8pm Lowell reading Cot. Dinner MK.
21 (Sat) Lowell reading Cot. OE last night.
23 (Mon) Evening bridge, CFs.
24 (Tue) HP working on sequences headed ‘Betrayal’ and notes on
timing.
25 (Wed) 10:30am RCo rehearsal. 5:30pm EO. 8pm Mosleys.
26 (Thur) Morning Harold Goodman (HG).
27–28 (Fri–Sat) RCo rehearsals. 8pm Daniel. HP working on proofs of
poems and prose dedicated ‘To Antonia’. PH agrees to do
new HP play at NT.
28 (Sat) 8pm SS. PH reads B: ‘bleak and disturbing piece about infi-
delities. There are plenty of laughs and impeccable style,
but my God the prospect is chilling ... It weaves a very cun-
ning web ... the metaphorical structure is extraordinary’
(Diaries: 334).
29 (Sun) Daniel’s 20th birthday. Evening party EO.
30 (Mon) 10:30am RCo rehearsal and run-through.
31 (Tue) HP reads Larkin’s ‘Aubade’ to the TSs and HW.
February
Works on film script of FLW.
1 (Wed) Evening JBa, Ladbroke Arms, tells her about B.

2–4 (Thur–Sat) Rehearsals.
2 (Thur) 1pm lunch JW: L’Epicure.
3 (Fri) Lunch AF. 6:15pm JBa: Café Royal. 8pm Quentin Crisp,
JG and others.
4 (Sat) 1pm cast lunch.
5 (Sun) Tea with NH. 6pm Richmond.
6 (Mon) RCo preview Richmond.
7 (Tue) 1pm SG. RCo opens Richmond.
8 (Wed) Morning rehearsal. 1pm SG and others.
9 (Thur) Lunch SG.
10 (Fri) Daniel.
14–15 (Tue–Wed) Rehearsals.
14 (Tue) Evening Michael Frayn’s translation of Chekhov’s The
Cherry Orchard Ol.
15 (Wed) 1:30pm Daniel.
17 (Fri) Lunch JBa.
22 (Wed) RCo Globe Theatre.
23 (Thur) RCo receives hostile reviews, leads to short run.
24 (Fri) 8pm meets R.D. Laing, author, psychiatrist.
25 (Sat) Noon nets. Evening KB.

26 (Sun) Hove.
27 (Mon) Involved with H. Lunch KB: Venezia. Writes to Eric Kahane over
translation of B (HPA).
28 (Tue) London Weekend Television for interview with MBr (BR: K21).
Evening MC, AAy and others.
March
1 (Wed) Lunch SG: L’Epicure. 3pm H. 6pm IH. 8pm RCo.
2 (Thur) 3:15pm B auditions. 7:45pm Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard Ol.
10:15pm dinner PH: La Barca.
3 (Fri) 5pm CFs.
4 (Sat) Noon CF. 8pm CB, PR, John Casey.
5 (Sun) Lunch PW. Daniel.
6 (Mon) H. 5:45pm CM. 8pm James Saunders’ Bodies Hampstead Theatre
Club.
7 (Tue) Morning squash. Lunch RH. Evening dinner Warners.
8 (Wed) 3pm Daniel. 8pm JBa, JE.
9 (Thur) 1pm JW. 5:30pm NT meeting.
10 (Fri) Morning squash CM. 8pm Mosleys.
11 (Sat) 5pm VM.
12 (Sun) 1pm FWy. 7pm AB. 8pm MBr, John le Carré (aka David
Cornwell): Garrick Club. The Examination, first London stage
production, Ambiance at Almost Free Theatre.
13 (Mon) H rehearsal. Evening NT Associates’ meeting.
14 (Tue) Lunch parents.
15 (Wed) Evening JBa, JE.
16 (Thur) 1pm lunch Victoria Wood, comedienne: Vendome. 6pm CM.
8pm RCo.
17 (Fri) H. 9pm CF.
18 (Sat) H rehearsal. 6pm SS.
19 (Sun) Evening Wardles.
20 (Mon) H Oxford Playhouse for two weeks. 7pm dress rehearsal.
21 (Tue) First night H.
22 (Wed) 6pm TA: Randolph Hotel.
25 (Sat) 8pm Anna Massey.
26 (Sun) 1pm Barry Foster, PW.
27 (Mon) Noon SG. 7:30pm sees Nigel Williams’ Class Enemy.
29 (Wed) Evening CF and others.
30 (Thur) 6pm KB.
31 (Fri) 5:30pm JW and others.
April
1 (Sat) Morning MBr. RCo closes.
2 (Sun) Iver, lunch bridge-playing friends the Johnsons.
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3 (Mon) H Richmond for a week. 12:30pm lunch Teddy Kollek, Mayor of

Jerusalem.
4 (Tue) H. 8pm HWi.
5 (Wed) 11:30am JW. H.
6 (Thur) 11am DJ. 8pm Longfords, RHs.
7 (Fri) Morning CF. 8pm SS.
8 (Sat) Morning nets. Afternoon final cuts for MBr interview.
10 (Mon) H performed in Israel. 6:30pm NT Associates’ meeting.
11 (Tue) 1pm Daniel. 5pm Melvyn Bragg Show. 8:30pm watches AF’s Quiet
As A Nun, Thames TV (and subsequent series).
12 (Wed) Lunch Penelope Mortimer. 6:30pm PH.
13 (Thur) 4:30pm MBr. 8pm PW, DM.
14 (Fri) 1pm JBa.
17 (Mon) 5pm NT board meeting. 7:45pm David Hare’s Plenty Ly.
18 (Tue) 11:30am DJ. 1pm IH.
19 (Wed) Morning squash CF. 8:30pm JW party.
20 (Thur) 1:15pm lunch JW. 6:15pm NH.
21 (Fri) 6pm Ly. 8:30pm MBis.
22 (Sat) Interviewee, The South Bank Show, directed by Andrew Snell, first
broadcast, London Weekend Television (BR: K21).
23 (Sun) First Ga cricket match.
24 (Mon) H opens Brighton.
25 (Tue) 2:30pm H rehearsal.
26 (Wed) Evening NT Associates’ meeting.
27 (Thur) Brighton. 7:45pm H.
28 (Fri) Evening bridge CFs.
29 (Sat) 12:15pm KB.
30 (Sun) PW’s birthday.
May
1 (Mon) Garrick Theatre revival of H, directed by KB.
2 (Tue) 1pm MBis. 6:45pm meets H cast.
3 (Wed) HP’s parents at 36 Eaton Manor, The Drive, Hove 3,
Sussex. Evening Methuen dinner.
4 (Thur) 3pm JW. Plays: Three, Poems and Prose 1949–1977, Proust
Screenplay published by Eyre Methuen (BR: I1i (iii), I4 (a)
B3a¹).
5 (Fri) 1pm PH.
6 (Sat) Daniel.
7 (Sun) Noon MBis. 6pm Anthony Quayle.
8–22 (Mon–Mon) HP, AF visit Israel which is celebrating its 30th birthday.
23 (Tue) 1:15pm JW. 4pm PW. Dinner Emma Tennant.
24 (Wed) 8pm MBis.
26 (Fri) Hove. 8pm CFs. Jerusalem Post publishes interview and
article on HP.
30 (Tue) Dinner GW.

31 (Wed) 5:30pm TA. At dinner, HP asks AF to be his Literary Executor
(Must: 93, 97).
June
2 (Fri) 1pm SG. 4:30pm DJ. HP distressed by tax issues and
VM.
3–4 (Sat–Sun) 3–7pm NT seminar discussing five-year policy.
3 (Sat) 8pm SS.
5 (Mon) Oxford.
6 (Tue) 8pm JL.
7 (Wed) 4:30pm PH. 8pm SS.
8 (Thur) 3:30pm Garrick for Sunday Times photograph with TS.
9 (Fri) Parents’ anniversary. 7:30pm RSC Coriolanus Ald.
10 (Sat) 6pm PW.
12 (Mon) 8pm MK.
13 (Tue) 3:30pm JW.
14 (Wed) 1pm JGi. 7:30pm TS and André Previn’s Every Good
Boy Deserves Favour Mermaid Theatre. HP very
pleased with choice of MGa for B, suggests to PH five
weeks’ rehearsal.
15 (Thur) Signatory, petition, calling for the release of the Soviet
prisoner of conscience Eduard Kuznetsov (BR: H6).
16 (Fri) 7pm NH.
17 (Sat) Lunch TS.
19 (Mon) Lunch GW, Rebecca West. 3pm W.S. Graham
rehearsal for reading.
20 (Tue) 2:45pm rehearsal for reading. 5:30pm W.S. Graham
reading.
21 (Wed) Lunch SG, JW, JD. 3pm JW. 5:30pm GV.
22 (Thur) 1pm lunch CM. 8pm bridge CFs.
23 (Fri) To Ireland to film LGD.
28 (Wed) London.
28–6 July (Sun–Thur) Draft pages of dialogue and notes FLW (HPA).
29 (Thur) 1pm lunch RSt.
30 (Fri) 7pm NT Associates’ meeting: HP asks PH about set-
tings for B.
July
1 (Sat) With AF attends country fancy-dress ball: HP goes in a dinner
jacket, with a red bow tie, as an out-of-work violinist (Must: 98;
Diaries: 360).
3 (Mon) 1pm lunch SS.
4 (Tue) Hove. 6:30pm HWi.
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5 (Wed) Lunch Daniel. 4pm JW. 6pm MGa: Churchill Hotel. 7:30pm Bill
Morrison’s Flying Blind NT.
6 (Thur) 1pm JBa: Odin’s.
8 (Sat) 8pm MBis.
10 (Mon) 12:45pm Alec Waugh buffet. 4pm B rehearsal. 8pm with KB,
David Mamet’s American Buffalo Cot.
11 (Tue) With AF to Glyndebourne for Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
12 (Wed) Parents.
14 (Fri) 11am Lord’s, Middlesex v Leicestershire. 5pm NT John Bury’s B
set. 8:30pm dinner SGs.
15 (Sat) Lunch PW.
17 (Mon) Lord’s, Eton v Harrow cricket match.
18 (Tue) 2:30pm Broadcasting House ‘Proust’ recording.
19 (Wed) 4pm JW. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
20 (Thur) Lunch AF. 6pm HWi. 8pm JW.
21 (Fri) Plays cricket.
22 (Sat) Lunch Johnsons, CFs, Iver.
24 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 7:30pm Batsheva Dance Company
RFH.
25 (Tue) Noon lunch Daniel: Thompson’s. 8pm Longfords.
26 (Wed) 5:30pm JE. 8pm dinner AF’s family, RHs. 100th performance
party of H. Resigns from the Society of Authors as it elected to
join Trades Union Congress.
27 (Thur) 12:30pm VM. 8pm JBa, JE.
28 (Fri) 3:30pm LGD.
29 (Sat) HP XI Guardian cricket match at Gunnersbury.
August
Two weeks’ Italian holiday with AF and children. HP cycles and stays with
eight others (Must: 98–9).
14 (Mon) London.
15 (Tue) Daniel.
16 (Wed) 12:30pm lunch HWi. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
17 (Thur) 1pm JW. 6:30pm CM.
18 (Fri) Hove. Evening VM.
19 (Sat) 6pm HWi. 8pm Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair Roundhouse.
21 (Mon) 6:30pm CM.
22 (Tue) Noon lunch Daniel.
23 (Wed) 1pm JW. 8pm The Passion Cot (Diaries: 293).
24 (Thur) 6pm Jim Hammerstein.
26 (Sat) Bernhurst, East Sussex.
28 (Mon) Very upset by RS’s death (Must: 99).
29 (Tue) 8pm dinner JW. Concerned with LGD.
30 (Wed) Lunch SG.

31 (Thur) Oxford, plays cricket for GW’s team v OUP. Evening FW, JG.
September
Works with KR on FLW screenplay, prepares NT production of B.
2 (Sat) 5:30pm Daniel.
4 (Mon) 8pm bridge CFs.
5 (Tue) 7:45pm Shaw’s The Philanderer Ly.
6 (Wed) Edinburgh. RH’s A Family at the Traverse.
7 (Thur) 1pm John Stride, actor.
8 (Fri) London.
11 (Mon) Lunch KR. The Passion of Dracula Queen’s Theatre.
12 (Tue) 12:45pm lunch SG: La Barca. Evening casting meeting for
SG’s (Close of Play) CP. 6:30pm VM.
13 (Wed) Lunch PH. B NT.
14 (Thur) Lunch KR. 8pm H.
15 (Fri) 3:15–5:15pm LGD.
16–22 (Sat–Fri) JE interview ‘Just a Simple Little Love Story?’ (on LGD,
Radio Times: 80–3, 85; BR: G44).
17 (Sun) AF accompanies HP, JG to East End to visit where they grew
up, Clapton Pond, lunch Bloom’s, and synagogue where HP
had his Bar Mitzvah (Must: 100).
18 (Mon) 12:45pm JBa. 8pm with TSs to Osborne’s Inadmissible
Evidence RC.
19 (Tue) 6pm Methuen party. 8pm HP, AF host B dinner for produc-
tion and cast (Diaries: 375).
20 (Wed) Lunch ME: Garrick Club. 3:30pm JW. 9:25pm LGD screened
as television play, BBC2 Play of the Week. HP plays Barry
Shannon, an overbearing Irish drunk (BR: W33.3).
21 (Thur) Hove.
24 (Sun) Ga Sidcup.
25 (Mon) 1pm lunch PW.
26 (Tue) 5pm Israeli Embassy reception.
27 (Wed) Lunch EO, CFs.
28 (Thur) 10:30am KR. Evening Middleton and Rowley’s The
Changeling Riverside Studios, then dinner MBis.
29 (Fri) 4pm TS.
30 (Sat) 3pm KR.
October
With KR visits Lyme Regis and Dorset for locations and see John Fowles.
2 (Mon) B rehearsals NT (Diaries: 378).
3 (Tue) 1pm Lord Mayor’s lunch. 10:30pm NT production of NM,
Granada Television.
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4–6 (Wed–Fri) B rehearsals.

4 (Wed) CM, SGs.
5 (Thur) 8:30pm DP’s birthday and dinner.
6 (Fri) 7:30pm The Double Dealer with the MBis, Ol.
7 (Sat) Gives short address at RS’s memorial service at St Paul’s
Church, Covent Garden. HP stresses ‘Bob the writer and
read from the Four Quartets’ (Diaries: 379). 3:30pm KR.
Evening JBa, JE.
8 (Sun) 6pm PA.
9 (Mon) 11:30am TV Centre reads Larkin poem. 3pm KR dis-
cusses FLW screenplay.
10 (Tue) Lunch AF. 8pm bridge FWy, CFs and others. ‘Difficult
day’s [B] rehearsal.’
11 (Wed) Morning rehearsal. 4:15pm VM. Lengthy NT Associates’
meeting (Diaries: 380–1).
12 (Thur) 11am B rehearsal. 1:15pm lunch SG, AB: La Barca. 8pm
KRs.
13 (Fri) 11am AB. 3:30pm VM’s Blackheath flat.
14–15 (Sat–Sun) Lyme Regis with KR for FLW locations. Noon John
Fowles.
16 (Mon) 1:30pm VM. 6pm SG and others: Café Royal. 8pm H
Garrick Theatre. 10:30pm H party.
17 (Tue) 8:30pm GW party.
18 (Wed) Noon Michael Redgrave.
19 (Thur) 8pm bridge CFs.
21 (Sat) 3pm KR. H Last night.
23 (Mon) 7:30pm DM’s RSC production of his Cousin Vladimir
Ald.
24 (Tue) Bad day rehearsing B.
25 (Wed) 7:30pm first night SG’s Molly Comedy Theatre.
26 (Thur) 1pm KR.
27–28 (Fri–Sat) B rehearsals (Diaries: 384–6; Must: 101).
29 (Sun) 5:30pm Anna Massey.
30–31 (Mon–Tue) Rehearsals. Evening KRs. Threat of industrial action at
NT.
November
Writing screenplay of FLW.
1 (Wed) 2pm B rehearsal.

2 (Thur) 2pm B rehearsals proceed amidst industrial unrest at NT.
3 (Fri) PH notes HP is ‘very depressed, tense and moody. He said to me
tonight that Betrayal is the best piece of work he and I had ever
done together and it was about to be ruined’ (Diaries: 388).
4 (Sat) B run-through.
6 (Mon) B rehearsal.
7 (Tue) B set on stage.
8–9 (Wed–Thur) B dress rehearsals.
10 (Fri) First B preview.
13 (Mon) NT Associates’ meeting. 2:30pm rehearsal.
14 (Tue) B guest-night preview against a strike backdrop, HP ‘walk-
ing about like a sad zombie, wondering whether [B] is to
open or not’ (Diaries: 390).
15 (Wed) B opening Ly.
16 (Thur) 5:30pm JW, Klaus Juncker. B first edition, Eyre Methuen
(BR: A37).
17 (Fri) Chiddingfold, Surrey with AF.
19 (Sun) B Sunday reviews very negative.
20 (Mon) 5pm JW. Evening NT Associates’ meeting. Unofficial strike
at NT.
21 (Tue) Works on FLW script. 8pm bridge CFs.
22 (Wed) 1pm SG. 3:30pm KR.
23 (Thur) Hove. Evening bridge.
24 (Fri) 10:30am KR. 1pm GW. Excellent review of B from
Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman.
25 (Sat) 2:30pm VM. 8pm Verdi Requiem with the SGs RFH.
26 (Sun) 1pm lunch CB, PR.
27 (Mon) Evening bridge.
28 (Tue) TS’s Night and Day Phoenix Theatre.
29 (Wed) 7:30pm John Galsworthy’s Strife Ol.
30 (Thur) Evening bridge KRs.
December
1 (Fri) 1pm Eric Kahane. JE’s adaptation of The Putney Debates Cot.
3 (Sun) Evening Ga dinner.
4 (Mon) 4pm B understudy rehearsal.
5 (Tue) 2:30pm sees KR’s Dog Soldiers (Who’ll Stop the Rain).
8 (Fri) Morning B auditions. 1pm lunch SG: La Barca.
9 (Sat) 7pm VM.
10 (Sun) 4:30pm KR.
12 (Tue) Lunch IH. 3:30pm KR.
13 (Wed) 8pm dinner Rebecca West.
15 (Fri) Noon reception for Bernard Stone, bookseller. 4:30pm CP audi-
tions, HP directs. 8pm bridge KRs.
16 (Sat) FLW.
17 (Sun) 1:30pm KR. 8pm John Casey.
18 (Mon) Lunch Benedict Nightingale: L’Epicure. 5pm ED, SG.
19 (Tue) Christmas lunch Longfords. 8pm bridge CFs.
20 (Wed) Noon John Whiting Award drinks reception. Evening NT.
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21 (Thur) 11am JW. 6pm TA: Churchill bar. 8pm CB, PR.
22 (Fri) CP model at NT. Lunch CM.
24 (Sun) 6:30pm dinner RR.
25 (Mon) 1pm lunch PW.
27 (Wed) Working on final drafts of FLW.
28 (Thur) Lunch BB.
29 (Fri) 3pm VM. 7:30pm poetry evening at home.
31 (Sun) Bernhurst.
1979
RSt acquires US rights for B. Early in year, HP directing CP NT: production

plagued by industrial unrest. I Know the Place, Greville Press, Warwick (BR: I5).
January
1 (Mon) Grand Hotel, Eastbourne writing FLW film script.
8 (Mon) AF, HP’s fourth anniversary.
12 (Fri) Hove.
13 (Sat) 6pm PW.
15 (Mon) 3pm NT.
16 (Tue) 1pm PA.
17 (Wed) Evening NT Associates’ meeting.
18 (Thur) Lunch Emma Tennant. 8pm John Wells.
21 (Sun) 2pm nets. 8pm MBis.
22 (Mon) 11:30am KR. Evening dinner MBis.
23 (Tue) 11:30am KR.
24 (Wed) 9:30am JW. 11am KR. Evening B.
25 (Thur) 11am KR. 1:15pm lunch SG, IH: L’Escargot. 4:45pm meets B cast.
6pm with KR sees Barry Lyndon.
26 (Fri) 2:30pm NT CP production meeting, then to Brighton.
28 (Sun) 1:30pm Ga AGM.
30 (Tue) 11am KR. Evening Standard Awards.
31 (Wed) 10am KR. 12:45pm DM. 6pm TS. Evening JG and others.
February
1 (Thur) 4pm CP understudies. 6:15pm B cast. 8pm dinner CB.
2 (Fri) 10am KR.
3 (Sat) 10am KR. 4pm PA. 8pm KRs.
8 (Thur) NT Directors’ meeting.
11 (Sun) Lunch DM.
12 (Mon) 8pm bridge MBis.
13 (Tue) 12:45pm lunch Arnold Goodman. 2:30pm HG. 8pm CFs.
14 (Wed) 1pm JBa. 4pm KR. 8pm Eugene O’Neill’s The Long Voyage Home
Cot.
16 (Fri) 12:30pm KR. 8pm PR, CB, KRs, SGs.

17 (Sat) 12:30pm KR.
18 (Sun) 6:30pm drinks with Arthur Bryant, historian.
19 (Mon) Initial rehearsal, read-through of CP (Diaries: 416, 426).
20–22 (Tue–Thur) CP rehearsals.
21 (Wed) 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
22 (Thur) Stirling with AF, attends dinner party at University
Principal’s House.
23 (Fri) Receives University of Stirling Honorary Doctorate of
Letters.
24 (Sat) London. 8pm EO.
25 (Sun) 1pm Dr Christopher Brookes (Ga Captain, CBr). (See
www.haroldpinter.org/cricket/theteam3.shtml.) 4pm KR.
26–28 (Mon–Wed) CP rehearsals.
27 (Tue) Evening bridge.
March
1–2 (Thur–Fri) CP rehearsals.
1 (Thur) 8pm bridge KRs.
2 (Fri) Doctor’s appointment.
3 (Sat) 12:30pm KR. 8pm bridge FWy, CBr.
4 (Sun) Ill, cancels appointments.
6 (Tue) Ill, suspends rehearsals CP. Evening MBis.
7–9 (Wed–Fri) CP rehearsals.
8 (Thur) Lunch JW. 2pm rehearsal. 6:15pm Klaus Juncker Ly bar,
NT, then SG and others.
9 (Fri) 12:15pm CBr. Sees The Deer Hunter.
10 (Sat) 12:30pm KR. 8pm dinner Nightingales and DPh.
11 (Sun) Noon VM.
12–16 (Mon–Fri) CP rehearsals.
14 (Wed) 6pm GV Ly bar. 7:30pm PEN for T.S. Eliot readings.
16 (Fri) Morning blood test. 12:30pm lunch PA. NT strike.
17 (Sat) 4pm bridge.
18 (Sun) 2pm nets. 3:30pm KR.
19–24 (Mon–Sat) CP rehearsals.
19 (Mon) 9:30am SG: Waldorf. Evening NT Associates’ meeting,
amidst industrial action: defends PH’s position (Diaries:
423).
20 (Tue) 8pm PR, CB.
21 (Wed) 6pm NT board meeting. 9pm dinner PH.
22 (Thur) 12:30pm lunch SG. 5:30pm NT Associates’ meeting.
Dinner Roger Scruton, philosopher.
23 (Fri) Evening CFs.
24 (Sat) Evening RHs.
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25 (Sun) 7pm Johnsons from Iver.

26–30 (Mon–Fri) CP rehearsals.
26 (Mon) Evening Galsworthy’s Strife NT.
27 (Tue) 11am CP sound. 8pm bridge.
31 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch CBr. 3pm HG. 7:30pm Janet Baker
concert.
April
1 (Sun) 2pm nets. 4pm PA.
2 (Mon) 8pm GW dinner for Teddy Kollek.
3 (Tue) NT meeting.
4–6 (Wed–Fri) CP rehearsals.
4 (Wed) Buys house Aubrey Road, behind AF’s house Campden Hill
Square, to use as study and office (Must: 104). Evening NT
Associates’ meeting (Diaries: 427).
6 (Fri) 5:30pm Gerhard Klingenberg, director Vienna Burgtheater.
7 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch CBr. 4:30pm SS.
9 (Mon) 1pm lunch CBr: La Loggia. 7pm Hove. Signs VM separa-
tion deeds.
10 (Tue) 2pm HG. 3pm CP rehearsal.
11 (Wed) 1pm JW. 3pm KR. 8pm CFs.
12 (Thur) Laverstock, near Salisbury.
13–17 (Fri–Tue) Venice.
17 (Tue) London. Evening TSs.
18 (Wed) 12:30pm KR. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting (Diaries: 431).
19 (Thur) 11am KR. 6pm VM in hospital.
20 (Fri) 12:30pm KR. 8pm bridge KRs.
21 (Sat) Lord’s with CBr, MCC v Kent. Evening FWy.
22 (Sun) 3pm KR. 8pm Jonathan Gems’ The Tax Exile Bush Theatre.
23 (Mon) 5:30pm George Barker, poet, Ol.
24 (Tue) 1pm CP production meeting. 8pm JBa, JE.
26 (Thur) 8pm Olivia Manning and others including Robert Gottlieb,
American screenwriter. Making FLW alterations.
27 (Fri) Lunch SG: L’Epicure.
28 (Sat) 12:30pm KR. Evening bridge CFs.
29 (Sun) 2pm first Ga cricket match.
May
1 (Tue) 11:30am KR. 4:15pm to Bristol for Thornbury Festival.
2 (Wed) 4pm HG. 6:30pm drinks with RSt. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
3 (Thur) 1pm lunch CBr. 8pm dinner RSt. General Election won by Margaret
Thatcher. HP, AF vote Conservative.
4 (Fri) 12:30pm lunch DP: Rules. 2:30pm CP rehearsal.
5 (Sat) Noon KR. 5pm PA.
7–12 (Mon–Sat) CP rehearsals.

8 (Tue) 8pm JW party.
9 (Wed) 6pm JBa. 8pm PR, CB.
10 (Thur) Evening KRs.
11 (Fri) 9:30am rings SB.
14 (Mon) HP, AF dine with SB, BB.
15 (Tue) Preoccupied with CP lighting.
16–17 (Wed–Thur) CP dress rehearsal.
18 (Fri) Sydney Edwards, ‘To Hell and Back with Pinter’ (Evening
Standard, 28–9; BR: G45).
18–19 (Fri–Sat) CP previews.
20 (Sun) 4:30pm PA.
21–23 (Mon–Wed) CP preview and rehearsals.
24 (Thur) CP opening night Ly.
28 (Mon) KR. Evening Daniel.
29 (Tue) Presents the George Devine Award at the RC. 1pm HG.
30 (Wed) 11:30am KR. 6pm Harrison Birtwistle. Evening CP.
31 (Thur) 11:30am KR.
June
1 (Fri) 12:30pm KR. 6pm Daniel.
2 (Sat) 12:30pm KR. 7pm parents.
4 (Mon) 12:30pm Daniel. 3pm KR.
5 (Tue) Venice with AF.
6 (Wed) Visits Torcello, works on FLW screenplay (Must: 105–6).
9 (Sat) Parents’ wedding anniversary.
14 (Thur) London.
15 (Fri) 1pm KR. Evening Dispatches Cot.
18 (Mon) Works FLW drafts, also B.
20 (Wed) Evening TS’s Undiscovered Country Ol.
21 (Thur) 1:30pm HG.
22 (Fri) Works on FLW. 7:15pm JL.
23 (Sat) Prudential Cricket Cup Final at Lord’s with Orlando Fraser, AF’s
son. Evening dinner AF and others.
25 (Mon) Webster’s Duchess of Malfi Theatre Royal, Brighton.
26 (Tue) 1pm parents. 7:45pm CP.
27 (Wed) 10am CP understudies. FLW fourth draft.
28 (Thur) 1pm SS. 8pm KRs.
29 (Fri) 1pm PH. 3pm HG. FLW fifth draft. 8pm Stephen Poliakoff’s
American Days ICA.
July
2 (Mon) Henry James’ The Ambassadors Hampstead Theatre Club. Sends
PH Ho minus the last page.
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3 (Tue) HP, AF stay in Alvediston with Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon

(Must: 106–7).
4 (Wed) 1pm Daniel.
5 (Thur) 4pm parents. NT production and writing.
6 (Fri) 1pm JW. 7:30pm VM.
7 (Sat) 3pm Daniel. Starts moving into Aubrey Road.
8 (Sun) CM’s 50th birthday.
9 (Mon) HP, AF attend party celebrating Angus Wilson’s knighthood.
10 (Tue) 6pm CBr. 8pm Peter Eyre.
11 (Wed) NT Associates’ meeting.
12 (Thur) 1pm RSt. 4:30pm PH. 6:30pm Bob East, actor, dramatist. 8pm
GW, Elizabeth Longford.
13 (Fri) 12:30pm KR. 6:30pm GG.
16 (Mon) 1pm SS.
17 (Tue) 1pm SG. 6:30pm CBr. 8pm CFs.
18 (Wed) 11:30am plays for Ga.
19 (Thur) 5pm dinner KR, John Fowles.
20 (Fri) 1pm lunch PA: Aubois. 6pm JBa: Café Royal.
22 (Sun) VM’s 50th birthday.
23 (Mon) 12:30pm lunch KB. 7:30pm Martha Graham at CGa.
24 (Tue) 11:30am plays for Ga Highgate.
26 (Thur) 1pm JW. 4:30pm Hove.
27 (Fri) 12:30pm lunch Daniel. 5:30pm Michael Elliott, NT adminis-
trator.
28 (Sat) HP’s XI Guardian match.
29 (Sun) Ga Banstead: meets Arthur Wellard.
30 (Mon) To Corfu.
August
13 (Mon) London. Asks PH to reconsider his decision to close CP at
NT.
14–15 (Tue–Wed) Preoccupied with CP.
16 (Thur) Evening EO.
17 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG.
18 (Sat) 12:30pm KR. 6pm Daniel. 8pm KRs.
20 (Mon) 1pm CBr.
21 (Tue) 9:30am NT meeting concerning CP. 1pm lunch KB.
22 (Wed) 1pm Daniel. 4pm TA.
23 (Thur) 1pm lunch RH: Thompson’s. 6pm TA, GG.
27 (Mon) Noon lunch CBr.
28 (Tue) 1:30pm DP, VM.
29 (Wed) Noon JW and others. 8pm Derek Marlowe, author.
30 (Thur) 1pm PA.
31 (Fri) 7pm PH.
September
1 (Sat) 1pm lunch DPh.
2 (Sun) Noon CBr.
3 (Mon) 1pm Daniel.
4 (Tue) 1pm NT.
5 (Wed) Hove.
6 (Thur) 1pm SG: Waldorf. 3pm GG at Purcell Room, QEH.
7 (Fri) Noon KR. 7pm Ald Trevor Nunn’s production of Moss
Hart and George S. Kaufman’s Once in a Lifetime.
8 (Sat) 1pm TSs. 7pm RH. 7:45pm final B London performance.
10 (Mon) 1pm Daniel. Preview Richard Harris’ play about a cricket
team, Outside Edge, Queen’s Theatre.
11 (Tue) 12:30pm KR. Directs CP Ly. 5pm meeting regarding
Dublin Festival (Diaries: 463).
12 (Wed) 5:30pm CP cast meeting.
13 (Thur) Noon KR. Evening GW’s birthday celebration.
14 (Fri) 10:30am CP production meeting. 8pm dinner JG.
15 (Sat) Single Wicket Competition at the Oval. 1:30pm CBr and
others. Evening bridge CFs.
16 (Sun) Evening MBi and others.
17 (Mon) Paris. Evening Eric Kahane.
18 (Tue) HP, AF revisit Hotel Lancaster, Paris for production of
NM (Must: 108).
19 (Wed) Hamburg, sees B. Meets with Klaus Juncker.
20 (Thur) Berlin, sees B.
21 (Fri) London.
22 (Sat) 10:30am CP rehearsal. 1pm SG. 8pm KRs.
23 (Sun) Last Ga match of season played at Sidcup.
24 (Mon) Evening MBi party.
25–27 (Tue–Thur) CP rehearsals.
26 (Wed) 1:30pm JBa: La Barca. 4pm Daniel at the International
Theatre.
27 (Thur) Lunch AF. Evening party celebrates AF’s Charles II.
28 (Fri) CP rehearsals. 7pm meeting Chilean Cultural Fund.
29 (Sat) Helps Greville Press launch, Purcell Room, QEH; chairs
the evening and introduces poetry readings by himself
and others.
October
1 (Mon) CP, Bath. Evening dinner KR.
2 (Tue) 1pm KR. 7:30pm dinner PH (see Diaries: 466).
3 (Wed) 11am JW. 1pm KR. 6pm HG. 8:30pm dinner Warners.
4 (Thur) 1pm SG. 3pm KB.
5 (Fri) CP Bath dress rehearsal. 6pm SG.
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6 (Sat) 2pm Daniel.

7 (Sun) Noon CBr. 3pm KR.
8 (Mon) HP, AF in Dublin see CP at the Olympia Theatre. Stay at Bloom’s
Hotel.
10 (Wed) HP, AF celebrate HP’s 49th birthday in Dublin. AF gives HP Julian
Rothenstein’s specially designed ‘East Coker’. Then return to
London (Must: 111).
11 (Thur) 8pm PH.
12 (Fri) 10:30am JW. 1pm KR.
13 (Sat) Lunch J.H. Plumb, Master, Christ’s College, Cambridge.
15 (Mon) Lunch KR. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
16 (Tue) FLW. 8pm KRs.
17 (Wed) 1pm JW.
18 (Thur) Finishes FLW draft.
19 (Fri) 1:30pm lunch Daniel: Thompson’s. 5:30pm KR.
20 (Sat) Noon HWi.
21 (Sun) Noon CBr.
22 (Mon) 1pm lunch RH: Thompson’s. 3pm KR. CP closes.
23 (Tue) Lunch PA. 6pm NH. 8pm CFs.
24 (Wed) 11am Václav Havel, discuss Czech demonstration. 1:15pm lunch
ED: L’Epicure.
25 (Thur) Hove. 6pm JW.
26 (Fri) 12:30pm lunch CBr. 6pm RSt.
27 (Sat) 6pm CF. 8pm Ga dinner.
28 (Sun) 3pm KR.
30 (Tue) 3:30pm ED. 4:30pm KR. 8pm KRs.
31 (Wed) 6pm Jeremy Irons ( JI). 8pm CBr.
November
1 (Thur) 2:30pm KR.
2 (Fri) 12:15pm ED. 1pm DM. Evening Arthur Miller’s Death of a
Salesman NT.
3 (Sat) 1pm JW. FLW sixth draft.
4 (Sun) 7pm Bob East and others: Churchill Hotel.
5 (Mon) 7:30pm Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus NT.
6 (Tue) Noon VM.
7 (Wed) 5:30pm Penelope Wilton. 8pm dinner Longfords.
8 (Thur) 12:45pm JBa: La Barca. 2:15pm rehearsal for reading from
Louis MacNeice’s Autumn Journal Ly. 8pm bridge.
9 (Fri) 2:30pm Daniel NT. 3:30pm rehearsal. 6pm Autumn Journal
Ly.
10–25 (Sat–Sun) New York, rehearsals B American production.
10 (Sat) 9:30am KR, HP, AF fly to New York.
11 (Sun) 8pm Drue Heinz, American arts patroness.
12 (Mon) Evening party for AF.

13 (Tue) 1pm lunch Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer and photo-
grapher. Evening Stephen Spender and others.
14 (Wed) 1pm SS. 8pm PH and B cast.
15 (Thur) 1pm first B rehearsal. 8pm AF, HP dine with PH, B’s director.
17 (Sat) Washington, DC.
18 (Sun) Lunch RSt.
19 (Mon) New York. 6:30pm Jackie Onassis.
20 (Tue) Manhattan dinner to honour HP and AF. Attended by PH, SS,
Jules Feiffer and others (Diaries: 474).
22 (Thur) SS throws party for PH’s 49th birthday at his Park Lane pent-
house. At the party, AF’s daughter and English girlfriend rouse
HP’s ‘wrath by saying the Americans should not send troops to
Iran’ to rescue 62 American hostages imprisoned by Ayatollah
Khomeini’s regime (Diaries: 475).
23 (Fri) New York Times photoshoot. Lunch David Fromkin, American
author, lawyer. 5:30pm Mel Gussow. 8pm Norman Mailer and
others.
24 (Sat) 1pm B rehearsal and cast supper.
25 (Sun) 1pm Peter Shaffer. 6pm Bob Gottlieb and wife Maria Tucci.
26 (Mon) 10:30am B rehearsal. 1pm lunch B actors Blythe Danner and
Raúl Juliá.
27 (Tue) London.
28 (Wed) Moves into 8 Aubrey Road.
29 (Thur) 1pm lunch CBr. 6pm JW.
30 (Fri) 11am LM at the BBC. Noon SG.
December
1 (Sat) Sees AB in SG’s Stage Struck Vaudeville Theatre.
2 (Sun) Society of West End Theatre Managers’ Awards. Wins prize for B
as Best New Play (Diaries: 477).
3 (Mon) Lunch JW. 6pm ED. 8pm GV.
4 (Tue) 1pm JBa: La Pomme.
5 (Wed) Lunch SG. 3pm audition interviews for RC. 5:30pm ED.
6 (Thur) 6pm Daniel. 8pm Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya Hampstead Theatre.
7 (Fri) Parents.
8 (Sat) 4pm ED and others. Evening bridge.
9 (Sun) 1pm PW. 3pm Mitsuko Uchida, Chopin recital, QEH.
10 (Mon) 6pm NT Associates’ meeting.
11 (Tue) 8pm bridge CFs.
12 (Wed) 11am Roger Scruton.
13 (Thur) 12:15pm EO. 2:30pm HG.
14 (Fri) 10am GV. 1pm lunch CBr. 3pm RCo auditions. 3:30pm RCo
planning meeting. 8pm SGs.
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15 (Sat) 5:30pm JW.

17–24 (Mon–Mon) New York.
18–20 (Tue–Thur) 8pm technical dress rehearsal B.
21 (Fri) Lunch Penelope Prentice, American dramatist and lit-
erary critic. 8pm dress rehearsal.
22 (Sat) First preview.
23 (Sun) 3pm meets company. 8pm David Mamet.
24 (Mon) London.
26 (Wed) Lunch JW. 7:30pm Strauss’ Die Fledermaus CGa.
27 (Thur) 6pm KR.
28 (Fri) 3pm RCo production meeting. 7:45pm sees J.B. Priestley’s
When We Are Married Ly.
29 (Sat) 6:30pm NH.
30 (Sun) New York. Dinner DJ. Mel Gussow interview (New York
Times, Section 2: 5, 7; BR: G46).
31 (Mon) Evening party following B performance.
1980
January
1 (Tue) 6pm PH.
2 (Wed) Meets Arnold Weissberger and Robert Gottlieb. ‘A Rare
Interview with [HP]’ (San Francisco Chronicle, 48; BR: G47).
3 (Thur) 1pm B rehearsal. 6pm drinks Arthur Schlesinger. 8pm
Mamets, KR.
5 (Sat) First night B Trafalgar Theater. HP suggests to SS that he
makes B film, subsequently DJ directs.
6 (Sun) 6pm Meryl Streep, KR. 7:40pm sees All That Jazz.
7 (Mon) 4pm B company call.
8 (Tue) London.
9 (Wed) Fifth anniversary of HP, AF relationship. 12:30pm Daniel
and VM.
10 (Thur) 1pm JBa.
11 (Fri) 1pm CBr. 2pm HG. 7:30pm Pam Gems’ Piaf Piccadilly
Theatre.
12 (Sat) Hove.
13 (Sun) 1:30pm PR, CB: La Famiglia. 6pm KR.
14 (Mon) 10:30am RCo first reading. 7:30pm SG.
15–18 (Tue–Fri) RCo rehearsals.
19 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
20 (Sun) Noon nets. Rings PH: B ‘played to $110,000 last week, is
now a hit, and is expected to do even better’ (Diaries: 482).
21–25 (Mon–Fri) RCo rehearsals.
22 (Tue) Evening CFs.
23 (Wed) 9:30am KR.

25 (Fri) 8pm SGs.
27 (Sun) Ga AGM.
28–31 (Mon–Thur) RCo rehearsals.
31 (Thur) 8pm KRs, Meryl Streep.
February
1 (Fri) 1pm RCo rehearsal. 8pm CBr and others.
2 (Sat) 1pm Daniel. 8pm Peter Nichols’ Born in the Gardens
Globe Theatre.
3 (Sun) 6:30pm SG. Mel Gussow interview (New York Times,
Section 2: 1, 35) (BR: G48).
4–8 (Mon–Fri) RCo rehearsals.
4 (Mon) 8pm Richard III Roundhouse.
10–13 (Sun–Wed) Recording of RCo TV production.
15 (Fri) 12:30pm JW. 3pm rough cut RCo tapes at BBC.
17 (Sun) Noon nets. Evening RCo party.
18 (Mon) 3pm RCo rough cut. 8pm dinner AF and her daughter
Natasha.
19 (Tue) 1pm Daniel. 8pm Warners.
20 (Wed) 4pm KR. 8pm John Casey, Roger Scruton, TSs.
21 (Thur) 11am RCo rough cut. 5:30pm KR.
22 (Wed) 11am KR.
23 (Sat) 6pm VM. FLW definitely to be filmed.
24 (Sun) Noon nets.
26 (Tue) 1pm JW. 8pm Emma Tennant.
27 (Wed) Hove. Dinner EO.
28 (Thur) Lunch HG. 6pm HW.
29 (Fri) New York.
March
1 (Sat) B performance.
2 (Sun) MN, SS.
3 (Mon) B rehearsal.
4–18 (Tue–Tue) Barbados with AF.
19 (Wed) London. 6pm JW.
20 (Thur) 12:30pm LM. 2pm editing RCo.
21 (Fri) Editing RCo. 8pm SG.
22 (Sat) 1pm ED. 8pm Flora Fraser, AF’s daughter (FF), and Robert
Powell-Jones, barrister (FRs) (Must: 114–15).
23 (Sun) 4pm Daniel. 6pm KR.
24–28 (Mon–Fri) Ho rehearsals.
24 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
25 (Tue) 5pm PA. 8pm Daniel.
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26 (Wed) 6:30pm PEN Guest of Honour.

28 (Fri) 4pm HG.
29 (Sat) FRs wedding.
30 (Sun) 1pm SS.
31 (Mon) 10:30am Ho rehearsal.
April
1–2 (Tue–Wed) Ho rehearsals.
1 (Tue) 6pm film My Brilliant Career Screen on the Hill.
2 (Wed) 6pm LM.
3 (Thur) 4:30pm KR.
4 (Fri) 8pm CB, PR.
5 (Sat) Ho rehearsal. 8pm SG.
6 (Sun) HP’s parents and Longfords meet each other for first
time (Must: 115–16).
7–8 (Mon–Tue) RCo dubbings.
7 (Mon) SG.
9–11 (Wed–Fri) Ho rehearsals.
9 (Wed) 4:30pm JW.
10 (Thur) 5:30pm JW. 6:30pm RCo BAFTA.
12 (Sat) 8pm CM.
13 (Sun) 1pm SS. RCo directed by HP, BBC1.
14–19 (Mon–Sat) Ho rehearsals.
14 (Mon) 8pm CFs
16 (Wed) 8pm V.S. Naipaul and Tristram Powell, director.
18 (Fri) Evening bridge.
19 (Sat) 6pm GG.
21 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch DM. 3:30pm Ho rehearsal. 7pm lighting.
22–23 (Tue–Wed) Ho dress rehearsals.
24 (Thur) 12:30pm Daniel. 2pm Ho rehearsal. Ho opens Hampstead
Theatre. Ho first British edition, Eyre Methuen (BR: A39a).
25–26 (Fri–Sat) Ho rehearsal and preview. Guests include PA, PH and
Maria Ewing, AF, Orlando Fraser.
28–29 (Mon–Tue) Ho rehearsals and previews. 6pm JBa.
29 (Tue) 6pm KR, then Ludwig Rowohlt.
30 (Wed) 1pm SG. 6:30pm recording for Kaleidoscope programme.
May
1 (Thur) 3:30pm Ho rehearsal then press night.
2 (Fri) 1pm JW. 6:30pm Ho cast.
3 (Sat) 8pm DPh and others.
5 (Mon) 11:30am Daniel. 8pm RH’s The Dresser Queen’s Theatre.
6 (Tue) 11:30am David Aukin, producer. 12:30pm KR. 5pm Derek

Jarman’s The Tempest film Screen on the Hill.
7 (Wed) Noon KR. 8pm Ho.
8 (Thur) Lunch parents. 6:30pm Ho cast. 8pm CB, PR.
9 (Fri) Lunch MBis and others.
10 (Sat) 3:30pm Ho cast. 4:30pm KR. 7pm FRs.
11 (Sun) Cricket.
12 (Mon) 6pm NH. 8pm J.H. Plumb.
13 (Tue) 1pm lunch Emma Tennant. 8pm bridge.
14 (Wed) 5:30pm Alan Shallcross, BBC producer. 8pm bridge CFs.
15 (Thur) 1pm lunch JBa. 8pm David Aukin and wife, Nancy Meckler,
Meryl Streep, FWy.
16 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch BB: Little Acropolis. 3pm HG. 8pm Ho with HW.
17 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch Jack Kroll, New York critic. 3pm FLW cast meet-
ing. 4pm David Aukin. 5:30pm JG.
18 (Sun) Evening bridge MBis.
19 (Mon) To Suffolk.
20 (Tue) HP, AF holiday Seckford Hall, Suffolk.
22 (Thur) London.
23 (Fri) 1pm Meryl Streep. 2pm FLW cast meeting.
24 (Sat) Dinner PH.
25 (Sun) Filming Laverstock.
26 (Mon) 11:30am KR and others. HP, AF in Dorset visiting sets for FLW
(Must: 116).
27 (Tue) Shooting of FLW begins in Lyme Regis. HP, AF dine with John
Fowles.
28 (Wed) London. 1pm HP, AF lunch with Naipauls.
30 (Fri) 12:30pm drinks with David Aukin, ED at Ambassadors. Lunch
Aukin: Ivy. 8pm Ho. Advance plans for filming of B directed by
MN. in the end, he doesn’t make it.
31 (Sat) 1pm Daniel. Evening Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version Ly.
June
2 (Mon) 1:15pm PA. 6pm Miriam Gross. 8:30pm MN.
3 (Tue) 11:30am MN.
4 (Wed) 11am MN. 12:30pm lunch Daniel. 7pm AAy’s Sisterly Feelings Ol.
5 (Thur) 11am MN.
6 (Fri) 11am MN. 2pm LGD. 8pm FRs, John Lahr, critic, and others.
7 (Sat) Noon MN. 8pm Schlesingers.
9 (Mon) 2:30pm Ho understudies. HP, AF Jonathan Pryce’s Hamlet RC: HP
critical (Must: 117). Evening party for RB.
10 (Tue) 1pm lunch Jonathan Pryce, Ken Ewing, literary agent. 8pm Ho
party.
11 (Wed) HP, AF lunch with PA (see Must: 118). 3:30pm Ho cast. 8pm bridge.
1980 99
12 (Thur) 1pm parents. 6:15pm attends Next Editions (publish

Family Voices (FV), 1981) party: Thompson’s, then HP, AF
dine with John Wells and his wife, Teresa Gatacre.
13 (Fri) 2pm Ho understudies. 4pm BBC TV.
14 (Sat) 7pm sees final performance of Ho Hampstead Theatre.
16 (Mon) 1pm lunch TA, GG: Odin’s.
17–20 (Tue–Fri) With SS and MN in New York.
21 (Sat) Noon Ambassadors Theatre for lighting arrangements.
22 (Sun) 1pm lunch FRs.
23 (Mon) 2pm dress rehearsal Ambassadors Theatre. John Barber
interview.
24 (Tue) Ho preview.
25 (Wed) 1pm lunch AF, FF. Ho opens Ambassadors Theatre.
26 (Thur) 1pm JW. 4:30pm Ho cast.
27 (Fri) 1pm CBr. 3pm HG.
28 (Sat) 2:30pm cricket at Colet Court. 6pm Emma Tennant and
others. 8pm JBa, JE.
29 (Sun) 2:30pm participates in Havel protest ICA. 6pm KR. 8pm
Daniel.
30 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. Interview John Barber (Daily
Telegraph, 11; BR: G49).
July
Further FLW revisions.
2 (Wed) Lunch Ken Ewing. 7pm SS, Meryl Streep.

3 (Thur) 5pm cricket, Colet Court School.
4 (Fri) Noon GV. 6pm FLW cast and crew meeting. 8pm KRs.
5 (Sat) 3pm Daniel. Evening Alexandra Phipps’ wedding.
7 (Mon) 1pm lunch SS. 6pm dinner Christopher Bland, businessman,
politician.
8 (Tue) 2:30pm Ian McKellen. 8pm CFs.
9 (Wed) 12:30pm Michael Pennington and other actors. Evening HP, AF
Amy Fleming’s celebration of Angus Wilson’s knighthood (Must:
118–19).
11 (Fri) 1pm lunch HW. 7:30pm drinks with HWi. 8pm Ho.
12 (Sat) Ho cast meeting. 5:30pm KR. 8pm Sam Shepard’s Buried Child
Hampstead Theatre.
13 (Sun) ‘Pendennis’ (Observer, 40; BR: G50).
14 (Mon) 6pm Warren Mitchell.
15 (Tue) 1pm HG. 3pm Ho understudies. 6pm Daniel.
16 (Wed) 7pm Nicholas Nickleby Ald.
17 (Thur) 6pm Ken Ewing.
18 (Fri) Lunch MW. 3pm with parents Ho. 6:30pm MW.
19 (Sat) 8pm KRs.

20 (Sun) 4:30pm Ken Ewing.
21 (Mon) 1pm lunch Harold Hobson, Susan Hampshire. NT discusses
sound. 6pm PA. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
22 (Tue) 5:30pm Ho sound meeting Ambassadors Theatre.
24 (Thur) Lunch Michael Rudman, director: Santa Croce. 8pm RB, EO.
25 (Fri) 12:30pm lunch PW: Thompson’s.
28 (Mon) Works on Ho.
29 (Tue) 12:15pm JW. Evening Ho cast.
August
1 (Fri) Lawyers finalize divorce from VM. Has bronchitis. Proposes
to AF at Belvedere restaurant: she accepts (Must: 119).
2 (Sat) 10:30am Meryl Streep, KR, JI.
5 (Tue) 2:30pm BBC meets LM. 5:30pm JW, Tetsuo Kishi, Japanese
Shakespearean. 7:30pm Ho cast.
6 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch Daniel. 4pm Twickenham meets John
Bloom, FLW editor. 8pm Athol Fugard’s A Lesson from
Aloes Cot.
7 (Thur) Family holiday Algarve, Portugal. Begins writing FV (Must:
120).
21 (Thur) London.
23 (Sat) 11am JW. 1pm TSs party.
25 (Mon) 11:30am KR. 1pm Ken Ewing. 6pm Daniel.
26 (Tue) Hove. Evening hosts a supper for Ho cast.
27 (Wed) 4pm Twickenham, discusses FLW.
28 (Thur) To first day of England v Australia test match, Oval. 8pm
MBis.
29 (Fri) First reading of C TV production.
29–31 (Fri–Sun) Bernhurst.
31 (Sun) 8pm KR.
September
1 (Mon) 7pm Ken Ewing.
2 (Tue) 7pm VM.
3 (Wed) 5:30pm JL.
4 (Thur) 8pm SS, Lauren Bacall.
5 (Fri) Lunch CM: Odin’s. 7pm sees Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo Ol.
6 (Sat) 3pm SS. 5:30pm Ho cast. 8pm JLs.
8 (Mon) Lunch SG: L’Epicure. 5pm JW. 8pm sees AAy’s Taking Steps
Lyric.
9 (Tue) 1pm lunch AF: Churchill. 3:30pm Twickenham, FLW meeting.
8pm CFs.
1980 101
10 (Wed) 7pm Ho cast. 8pm Nigel Williams’ Line ’Em Cot.

11 (Thur) 1pm lunch JBa. 4pm programme on C at the NT. Evening dinner
for A.L. Rowse.
13 (Sat) 4pm Daniel. 9pm LGD BBC2.
15 (Mon) Finishes FV.
16 (Tue) 1pm lunch RH: Thompson’s.
17 (Wed) 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
18 (Thur) Lunch PA. 8pm KRs.
19 (Fri) 9:45am C BBC.
20 (Sat) 6pm Ken Ewing. 8:40pm last Ho performance.
21 (Sun) Last cricket match of the season: Ga Sidcup.
22 (Mon) 12:30pm JW. 8pm EO and others.
24 (Wed) 11am NH. 1:45pm working on C. 6pm Methuen party. 7:45pm
Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine.
25 (Thur) 3pm SS. 7:40pm Don Giovanni film at the Academy cinema, W1.
26 (Fri) 1pm lunch CBr. 2:30pm FLW.
27 (Sat) Lunch Daniel.
28 (Sun) Morning recording C.
29 (Mon) Lunch IH: Thompson’s. Evening RHs.
30 (Tue) Recording C.
October
Directs RCo for BBC TV.
1 (Wed) Last day C recording.

2 (Thur) Lunch SG. B opens in Leicester.
3 (Fri) Lunch LM: Thompson’s. 4:30pm KR.
4 (Sat) 8pm CFs.
5 (Sun) Lunch FRs. 4:30pm Daniel. Miriam Gross interview (Observer,
Review Section: 25, 27; BR: G51).
6 (Mon) Lunch SS, Julie Christie. 8pm GW party.
7 (Tue) 6pm JW.
8 (Wed) 3pm SS. 5:30pm SS, Julie Christie. Evening HP and AF’s ‘wedding
party at Campden Hill Square’ (Must: 120).
10 (Fri) 50th birthday. HP, AF should have been legally married: mar-
riage had to be cancelled as ‘at the very last moment [VM]
refused to sign the relevant divorce papers’ (Billington: 271–2).
6pm sees L Ly.
11 (Sat) Venice.
19 (Sun) Sicily.
24 (Fri) London.
25 (Sat) Daniel.
26 (Sun) 4:15pm rehearsal. 7:30pm DM tribute evening Ald.
27 (Mon) 6pm GV.
28 (Tue) 1pm lunch JW. 5pm John Tydeman. 6pm CBr and others.
Evening Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant Gate Three cinema,
Camden Town.
30 (Thur) 2:30pm C rehearsal NT. 7:30pm sees Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the
Paycock Ald.
31 (Fri) Hove. Lunch: Wheeler’s. 6pm London FLW party.
November
2 (Sun) 10am HW. Lunch DPh. 6pm PW.
3 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 8pm KRs.
4 (Tue) Lunch HG: Little Acropolis. Afternoon C dress rehearsal NT.
7:30pm sees DM’s No Limits to Love Warehouse.
5 (Wed) 7:45pm C dress rehearsal.
6 (Thur) First preview of C.
7 (Fri) 1pm lunch JBa. 4pm rehearsal.
10 (Mon) 2pm C rehearsal.
11 (Tue) C press night.
12 (Wed) 1pm lunch GV.
13 (Thur) 6pm CBr.
14 (Fri) Lunch John Casey. 8pm H Cambridge Theatre.
15 (Sat) 1pm lunch J.H. Plumb.
16 (Sun) New York: meets SS.
17 (Mon) SS.
18 (Tue) Louis Malle, film director, SS and others.
19 (Wed) London.
20 (Thur) Lunch JW.
21 (Fri) Noon lunch David Aukin. 8pm MN.
22 (Sat) 1pm lunch Daniel: Thompson’s.
24 (Mon) 7pm Howard Brenton’s The Romans in Britain Ol.
26 (Wed) Lunch JW. 5:45pm PH. 8pm Miller’s The Crucible Cot.
27 (Thur) Noon legal marriage to AF at the Kensington Registry Office
chosen ‘because Joyce and Nora got married there in 1931 ...
[HP taking the line] that what was good enough for Jimmy Joyce
was good enough for him’ (TLS ‘[AF] Letters to the Editor’, 6 July
2011: 6). 8pm family dinner.
28 (Fri) HP, AF the Bear, Woodstock.
30 (Sun) HP, AF lunch with Isaiah and Aline Berlin, Headington (Must: 123).
December
1 (Mon) London.
2 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch Daniel. HP, AF dinner CB, PR. 7pm Julie Christie.
3 (Wed) 10:30am NH. 1pm lunch Thomas and Val Pakenham. 5pm HG.
6pm CFs.
4 (Thur) 1pm lunch Daniel. 6pm Methuen poets’ reception. 8pm KRs.
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5 (Fri) Lunch Rachel Billington. 3:30pm Barrie Keeffe’s film The Long
Good Friday, directed by John Mackenzie.
6 (Sat) Ga dinner.
7 (Sun) 6:15pm Piccadilly Theatre, awards dinner.
8 (Mon) Ho on BBC. 8pm Paul Kember’s Not Quite Jerusalem RC.
9 (Tue) Lunch KR. 2pm FLW. 8pm CBr.
10 (Wed) 3:15pm JW. 6pm Westminster Abbey, attends Human Rights
service.
11 (Thur) Noon BBC party. 1:30pm lunch AF: Odin’s.
12 (Fri) 3pm JL. 6pm CB. 8pm bridge CBr and others.
14 (Sun) 1:30pm JL. 8pm MBis.
15 (Mon) Brighton. Lunch parents: Wheeler’s. 7pm W.S. Graham and oth-
ers: the Flask, Hampstead. 8pm W.S. Graham’s poetry reading.
16 (Tue) 11am SS. 1:45pm C production.
17 (Wed) 2:30pm SS. 6pm Faye Dunaway, actress, Terry O’Neill, photogra-
pher.
18 (Thur) 3:15pm JW. 8pm FRs.
19 (Fri) Noon SS, PH. 3:30pm JW. 8pm Milton Shulman, theatre critic,
party.
20 (Sat) 8pm David Storey’s Early Days Comedy Theatre.
21 (Sun) Noon drinks JG. 6pm SS. 8pm MBis.
22 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
23 (Tue) 12:45pm HW.
25 (Thur) Noon lunch Colin Tennant and his wife, Lady Anne Coke.
27 (Sat) 8pm dinner LOs.
28 (Sun) SGs.
30 (Tue) 1pm lunch Daniel. 7:30pm KRs.
31 (Wed) Lunch LM, then BBC. Evening John Schlesinger party.
1981
Participates in Poets against the Bomb, directed by Francis Fuchs, CND

(Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) Poetfilm (BR: K23).
January
1 (Thur) 1pm CBr.
3 (Sat) 8pm bridge.
4 (Sun) 1pm lunch DPh. 8pm FRs.
6 (Tue) Noon Methuen sales conference and lunch. 3:30pm JW.
7 (Wed) 11:30am SS.
8–9 (Thur–Fri) 10:30am recording FV for the BBC.
10 (Sat) Noon JI.
11 (Sun) 1pm PA, GW. 8pm SS.
13 (Tue) 11am Ho production meeting.
14 (Wed) 10am GV. 7pm KRs.

15 (Thur) Hove. 8pm CFs.
16 (Fri) Noon JW. 3pm Jeremy Brett.
17 (Sat) 4:30pm SS.
18 (Sun) 4pm Daniel. 8pm JBa, JE, HW.
19 (Mon) 11:30am GV. 6pm CBr and others. 8pm RH.
20 (Tue) NT collects GV’s paintings. 1pm lunch Michael Rudman:
Wheeler’s. 3pm HG.
21 (Wed) Evening bridge.
22 (Thur) 1pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 5pm FLW. 10pm FV BBC Radio 3,
directed by PH, produced by John Tydeman.
23 (Fri) 12:45pm with GV to Next Editions lunch.
24 (Sat) 10am KR.
25 (Sun) 4pm Daniel. 8pm Barry Foster and his wife, Judith Shergold,
actress.
26 (Mon) 3pm HG. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
27 (Tue) 10am first Ho TV rehearsal. 6pm GV’s exhibition NT. 8pm dinner
GV. 11pm Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, actor.
28 (Wed) 1pm Ho rehearsal. 9pm Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese.
29 (Thur) 11am Ho rehearsal. 7pm EO’s Virginia Haymarket Theatre.
31 (Sat) Noon Bill Brandt, photographer.
February
1 (Sun) Noon KB.
2–3 (Mon–Tue) Ho rehearsals.
2 (Mon) 8:30pm GW party.
3 (Tue) 6:15pm Daniel. 8pm bridge KRs.
5 (Thur) 6:15pm HW.
6 (Fri) 6pm PEN meeting on behalf of imprisoned writers.
7 (Sat) 8pm bridge CFs.
9–11 (Mon–Wed) Ho rehearsals.
9 (Mon) Evening KRs
10 (Tue) 6:15pm Michael Rudman.
11 (Wed) 8pm bridge Mark Boxer, cartoonist, and his wife Anna
Ford, journalist, and others.
12 (Thur) 10am Ho sound recording.
13 (Fri) Rehearsals BBC Ho. 6pm FV NT Platform Performance
wins Giles Cooper Award. Evening dinner PA, Michael
Kitchen: La Barca.
14 (Sat) 1pm lunch Daniel.
15 (Sun) 8pm PR, CB and others.
16 (Mon) 1pm Ho rehearsal. 7:30pm SG.
17 (Tue) 6pm FV NT.
18 (Wed) 1pm BBC productions room. 8pm MBis.
19 (Thur) 2pm FV rehearsal on BBC Radio 3.
1981 105
20 (Fri) Ho recording.
23 (Mon) Last day of Ho recording.
25 (Wed) Lunch KB: Thompson’s. 4:30pm JW. 7pm Daniel.
26 (Thur) Tragenna Castle Hotel, St Ives, Cornwall.
27 (Fri) St Ives.
March
1 (Sun) Visits Caerhays Castle, Cornwall where he was evacuated
(Must: 129).
4 (Wed) Lunch SG and others.
5 (Thur) 8pm dinner Daniel: Thompson’s.
6 (Fri) Lunch Bob East. 8pm KRs.
7–8 (Sat–Sun) FV editing BBC TV Centre.
8 (Sun) 8pm dinner Longfords.
9 (Mon) Lunch JW. 3pm SG and others. 7:45pm Daniel.
10 (Tue) 10am FV editing. 7:30pm family party: Thompson’s.
11 (Wed) 4pm SS. Evening dinner MBis.
12 (Thur) Mike Leigh’s Goose-Pimples Hampstead Theatre.
13 (Fri) 2:15pm SS. 6:30pm CBr.
14 (Sat) Last night C NT. Cast dinner.
15 (Sun) Evening SS.
16 (Mon) Meets Terence Baker at the Greenhouse. 3:30pm JW. 8pm JW.
17 (Tue) 6pm Jenny Quayle, actress. 8pm KRs.
18 (Wed) Lunch Longford, House of Lords. 5:30pm JBa. 7:15pm sees
Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country Ol.
19 (Thur) 3:30pm Prunella Scales: Ritz. 6pm FV.
20 (Fri) 11am SS, JW. 6pm FV.
21 (Sat) 4pm Daniel. 6pm PA.
22 (Sun) 10:30am SG.
23 (Mon) Works on B screenplay.
24 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch RH: L’Epicure. 8pm dinner Berlins, FRs.
25 (Wed) 10am auditions. 7:30pm Peter Nichols’ Passion Play Ald,
then dinner TS.
26 (Thur) 1:30pm HG. 6pm NH. 8pm DPh.
27 (Fri) Hove. 6pm PEN meeting. Ho BBC2.
28 (Sat) 6pm CBr and others: Churchill Hotel. 11pm Edward Fox.
30 (Mon) Noon lunch SG and others: Thompson’s. 8pm GW party for
French ambassador.
31 (Tue) 6:20pm Louis Malle’s film Atlantic City Curzon cinema.
April
1 (Wed) B screenplay. 7pm Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi Roundhouse.
2 (Thur) 1pm HW. 6pm EO.
3 (Fri) B screenplay. 8pm Rowan Atkinson in Review Globe Theatre.
4 (Sat) Attends wedding Eddie Kulukundis and Susan Hampshire.
5 (Sun) 6pm Daniel.

6 (Mon) 1pm lunch Emma Tennant. Evening bridge.
7 (Tue) 1:15pm CBr: Belvedere.
8 (Wed) 1pm SG. 4pm JW. 8pm KRs.
9 (Thur) 3pm FLW.
10 (Fri) 10am–6:30pm preparations for FLW dubbing. 8pm RH.
11 (Sat) 10am–9pm FLW dubbing.
12 (Sun) 7:30pm John Heath-Stubbs, Kenwood.
13 (Mon) 10am–9pm FLW dubbing.
15 (Wed) 7:30pm poetry reading Chelsea Old Town Hall.
16 (Thur) 3pm Bob East.
17 (Fri) 6pm Daniel. 8pm John Casey.
18 (Sat) 8:30pm bridge CFs.
19 (Sun) 1pm lunch TSs and others. 8pm KRs.
21 (Tue) 1pm JW. 3:30pm Ho BBC. 7:45pm sees Noël Coward’s Present
Laughter Vaudeville Theatre. Completes draft B screenplay.
22 (Wed) 6pm Ho screening.
23 (Thur) 4pm ED, SG. Evening dinner GW.
24 (Wed) 11:30am JW. 1pm Terence Baker: Greenhouse. 6:30pm PEN.
26 (Sun) 2:30pm cricket. ‘Arthur Wellard’ (Observer Magazine; BR: E21a).
27–30 New York for B film.
(Mon–Thur)
30 (Thur) 8pm celebrates PW’s birthday.
May
1 (Fri) 1pm lunch JW. 4pm SG, ED. 5:30pm MW.
3 (Sun) 11:30am Ga match.
4–9 (Mon–Sat) B performed in Cambridge.
4 (Mon) To Chichester to see Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Meets
Christopher Fry, CB, PR.
5 (Tue) Brighton, sees parents.
6 (Wed) Evening GW dinner for AF.
7 (Thur) 1pm lunch AF and Tom Maschler, publisher. 3pm C.
6–8:30pm Emma Tennant party for AF.
9 (Sat) Noon KR. 4:15pm The Seagull RC. Evening Orlando Fraser
dinner: Rules.
10 (Sun) Noon CBr and others. Evening KRs.
11 (Mon) 4pm ED, SG.
12 (Tue) 1pm lunch Edward Fox, SG. 8pm HP, AF dinner Anthony
Powell (Must: 131).
13 (Wed) 1pm JW. 6pm HW. 8pm Brian Friel’s Translations Hampstead
Theatre
14 (Thur) Flies to Lisbon.
15 (Fri) Poem ‘The lights glow’ (TLS, 4076: 531; BR: C20).
1981 107
20 (Wed) London.
21 (Thur) B Richmond. Cast supper.
22 (Fri) 4pm JW.
23 (Sat) Bernhurst.
26 (Tue) C restaged at Greenwich Theatre, directed by Kenneth Ives (KI),
cast supper.
28 (Thur) 10am ED. 1:15pm lunch CM: Quo Vadis. 7pm FLW.
29 (Fri) Noon lunch SG: Thompson’s. 6pm PEN.
30 (Sat) 1pm JL.
31 (Sun) Ga Roehampton.
June
1–5 (Mon–Fri) SG’s Quartermaine’s Terms (QT) rehearsals
1 (Mon) 8pm FWy.
2 (Tue) 10am SS. Evening Daniel.
4 (Thur) 7pm JBa drinks. 8pm KRs.
6 (Sat) 1pm lunch PA. 8:15pm John Wells’ Anyone for Denis?
Whitehall Theatre.
7 (Sun) Noon CBr and others. 2pm cricket. 7:15pm BBC1 version of
C (NT 1980 production).
8 (Mon) 8:30pm SS.
10 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
11 (Thur) Evening dinner Paul Channon, politician, Ingrid Guinness’
home.
12 (Fri) 8pm David Fromkin.
13 (Sat) Sees Brecht’s Arturo Ui St Paul’s School.
15 (Mon) Evening MBis.
17 (Wed) Evening CFs.
18 (Thur) 8pm dinner GW.
19 (Fri) 10:30am QT rehearsal. 7:15pm Charlotte Rampling, actress.
20 (Sat) 6pm Daniel.
21 (Sun) Cricket.
22 (Mon) Rehearsing QT Globe. 7:30pm dinner PH, DJ.
23 (Tue) 8pm Christopher Hampton.
24 (Wed) 8pm dinner FRs.
26 (Fri) 6:30pm SS.
28 (Sun) Cricket. Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton.
29 (Mon) QT opens Theatre Royal, Brighton directed by HP.
July
5 (Sun) Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Glyndebourne.
10 (Fri) London.
11 (Sat) Evening CFs.

12 (Sun) Cricket.
13 (Mon) QT Richmond Theatre for two weeks.
14 (Tue) 3pm QT rehearsal.
15 (Wed) 4:30pm MC. 8pm KRs.
16 (Thur) 11pm JW. 6:30pm SG.
17 (Fri) 1:30pm SG. 4pm QT rehearsal. Evening QT performance.
18 (Sat) 8pm Daniel.
19 (Sun) Meets FRs.
20 (Mon) Lord’s, England v Australia. 8pm Christopher Hampton,
RH.
21 (Tue) QT.
23 (Thur) Evening IH party.
24 (Fri) 1pm lunch JBa. 6pm QT.
25 (Sat) 2:30pm HP’s XI Guardian.
26 (Sun) Afternoon cricket. 8pm KRs.
27 (Mon) 1:15pm DJ: L’Epicure.
28–29 (Tue–Wed) QT dress rehearsals Queen’s Theatre.
28 (Tue) Cricket at Highgate. 5pm QT press photos. 6:15pm SG.
29 (Wed) 10am Christopher Hampton.
30 (Thur) 1:15pm JW. QT opens Queen’s Theatre.
31 (Fri) 6pm SG.
August
1 (Sat) Noon Tetsuo Kishi. Evening KRs.
3 (Mon) 1pm lunch Daniel. 3pm HG. 7pm SG: Café Royal.
4 (Tue) Noon lunch JW. 6pm QT cast.
5–19 (Wed–Wed) Family holiday, Ischia.
8 (Sat) ‘Arthur Wellard (1902–1980): (Somerset, England and
Gaieties)’, in Summer Days: Writers on Cricket, edited by
Michael Meyer (London: Methuen): 189–95: also Villiers
Publications (BR: E21a).
21 (Fri) 1pm lunch JW.
22 (Sat) 5pm with AF Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde at Coliseum.
24 (Mon) QT.
25 (Tue) 1pm lunch HG. 5:30pm QT cast meeting.
26 (Wed) 7:30pm John Casey.
27 (Thur) AF’s birthday. 8pm family gathering. Plays: Four, Eyre
Methuen (BR: I1(iv)).
28 (Fri) Hove. 8pm KRs.
29 (Sat) 6pm Victoria Rothschild (VR, marries SG in 1997).
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30 (Sun) John Osborne. Leslie Garris, ‘Translating Fowles into Film’ (New
York Times Magazine, 24, 48–54, 69; BR: G52).
31 (Mon) 8pm Michael Weller’s Loose Ends Hampstead Theatre.
Autumn
FV first edition, Next Editions in association with Faber & Faber (BR: A40a).
September
1 (Tue) 1:30pm lunch KB: L’Epicure. 8pm CFs and others.
2 (Wed) 5pm HG. 8pm KRs.
3 (Thur) FLW first British edition, Jonathan Cape in association
with Eyre Methuen, and American trade edition, Little,
Brown and Company (BR: B4a).
4 (Fri) Morning SS. 1pm Helen Mirren. 6pm PEN.
5 (Sat) Preview of TS’s On the Razzle NT.
6 (Sun) Ga Metropolitan Police.
7 (Mon) 8pm SS.
8 (Tue) 1pm Richard Lester, director: Piccola Venezia. Evening
QT.
9 (Wed) Lunch QT cast.
11 (Fri) Michael Owen on HP (Evening Standard, 24–5; BR: G53).
11–14 (Fri–Mon) North-east England QT tour.
15 (Tue) 1pm lunch ED. 3:45pm SS. Evening Chichester, Caryl
Brahms, Peter Greenwell and Ned Sherrin’s musical The
Mitford Girls, starring Patricia Hodge.
16 (Wed) Early evening anthology party at Covent Garden book-
shop.
17 (Thur) 10:30am FLW screening then JBa.
18 (Fri) 1pm lunch Maurice Denham, actor, and others. 6pm
PEN. FLW opens in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto:
receives 1981 Academy of Motion Picture and Golden
Globe nominations.
19 (Sat) 5:30pm Patricia Hodge. 8pm bridge.
20 (Sun) 11:30am cricket Sidcup.
21 (Mon) Meets TA, GG. 6pm readings from AF’s Mary Queen of
Scots Cot. 8pm SS.
22 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. Evening dinner GWs.
23 (Wed) QT.
24 (Thur) 5:30pm QT cast. 10:30pm RHs.
25 (Fri) 11am–1pm recording The South Bank Show. Then lunch
KR, MBr.
26 (Sat) 5pm SS. 8pm CFs.
28 (Mon) Rehearsal TS’s Night and Day. 1pm lunch SS.
29 (Tue) 12:15pm JI. 5pm Penelope Wilton.

30 (Wed) 1pm lunch JW: Belvedere. 3:30pm SS. 5pm Jack Gold, director.
October
1 (Thur) 10:30am Duke of York’s Theatre, Anna Massey, CB, Penelope
Wilton. 3:30pm Edward Fox.
2 (Fri) 10am cast perform extracts at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Spends
day at rehearsals with JI, Alec McCowen, Timothy West, Judi
Dench and others.
4 (Sun) 11am meets other actors. 11:30am full cast then rehearsal.
Directs excerpts from Fugard, Dostoevsky, Celan and others on
behalf of imprisoned writers.
6 (Tue) 2:30pm understudies. 7:30pm GV exhibition. 9pm AF: Odin’s.
7 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch Daniel.
8 (Thur) 10:30am DJ. 11:30am Michael Kitchen and other actors. 11pm
QT cast party at the Yorkshire Grey.
9 (Fri) 11:30am Ben Kingsley and other actors. 6pm ED and others.
8pm Seavers (American publishers of SB and others).
10 (Sat) 1pm parents. 8pm KRs.
11 (Sun) 12:30pm lunch John Osborne.
12 (Mon) 8:05pm watches first half of Brideshead Revisited on ITV.
13 (Tue) Afternoon understudies. 6:30pm JBa.
14 (Wed) 10:30am run-through of The South Bank Show. 1pm lunch PW:
L’Epicure. 8pm Peter Jay, economist, diplomat.
15 (Thur) FLW opens in London. 1:15pm KB. 8:30pm FLW party.
16 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 10pm another FLW party:
L’Epicure.
18 (Sun) 8pm bridge.
19 (Mon) Evening Strauss’ Arabella CGa.
20 (Tue) 11am ED. 6:30pm Maurice Denham
21 (Wed) 12:45pm lunch David Aukin.
22 (Thur) 7:30pm The Maid’s Tragedy Warehouse.
23 (Fri) 1pm lunch JW and others: Belvedere. 8pm KRs.
24 (Sat) 11am ED at DJ. 8pm DJ.
25 (Sun) 6pm PA. 8pm SS.
26 (Mon) 11am Robert Powell, actor. 1pm lunch SS, DJ, ED. 8pm Michael
Abbensetts’ In the Mood Hampstead Theatre.
27 (Tue) 11pm DJ, ED. 6pm Ben Kingsley. Evening JW.
28 (Wed) 5pm SS. Evening QT cast. 8pm CFs.
29 (Thur) University of East Anglia. 6pm Christopher Bigsby, academic.
7pm conducts seminar.
30 (Fri) 1pm lunch SS, DJ. 7:45pm Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf Ly.
31 (Sat) 10:30 am ED. Noon DJ. 6pm SS and others.
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November
2 (Mon) Begins rehearsals Robert East’s Incident at Tulse Hill
(ITH), HP directs, Hampstead Theatre.
3 (Tue) 5pm photograph and reception Longfords’ golden wed-
ding celebration.
4 (Wed) 1pm ITH rehearsal. 6:30pm HG.
6 (Fri) 1pm ITH rehearsal. 6:30pm JBa.
7 (Sat) 8pm KRs. Interviewee, with MBr, on The South Bank
Show. London Weekend Television (ITV; BR: K22). Corres-
pondence regarding Brown University honorary degree
(HPA).
8 (Sun) 1pm lunch TPs. 7:30pm MBis.
9–14 (Mon–Sat) ITH rehearsals.
10 (Tue) 6pm W.B. Yeats’ King of the Great Clock Tower and The
Cat and the Moon: music and direction by Harrison
Birtwistle. 8pm SGs, JI and his wife, Sinéad Cusack.
13 (Fri) Reading Oliver Sacks’ (OS) Awakenings.
14 (Sat) 6pm CBr.
15 (Sun) 7:45pm PW.
16–18 (Mon–Wed) 1pm ITH rehearsals.
16 (Mon) 7:30pm SG: L’Epicure.
18 (Wed) 6pm flies to New York with AF.
19 (Thur) With Tennessee Williams, receives Common Wealth
Award for Distinguished Services in Dramatic Arts at
the Shubert Theater.
20 (Fri) London.
21 (Sat) 10:30am ITH rehearsal.
23 (Mon) 1pm ITH rehearsal.
24 (Tue) Noon ITH costumes. 6pm production meeting. 8pm
KRs.
25 (Wed) 8pm JL.
26 (Thur) 1pm ITH rehearsal. 8pm FRs.
27 (Fri) 10:30am ITH run-through.
28 (Sat) 6pm PEN.
30 (Mon) 10am ITH lighting meeting and dress rehearsal.
December
1 (Tue) ITH dress rehearsal.
2 (Wed) First preview of ITH.
3 (Thur) Noon ITH press photos and preview.
4 (Fri) 1pm JW. 4:30pm ITH rehearsal and preview.
6 (Sun) 6:15pm among nominees for Best Director of the Year for QT at
the Society of London Theatre Awards.
7 (Mon) 4:30pm ITH rehearsal.
8 (Tue) ITH press night.

9 (Wed) 6:30pm ITH company. 8pm bridge.
10 (Thur) 1pm lunch JBa.
11 (Fri) 8pm CB, PR.
12 (Sat) 8:30pm Natasha Morgan’s Mother’s Arms RC.
13 (Sun) Lunch JG.
14 (Mon) 12:30pm lunch Daniel. 2:30pm SS, DJ.
15 (Tue) 1pm French Embassy for lunch. 3pm SS, DJ. 7pm ITH cast.
16 (Wed) Lunch SS. 8pm CBr.
17 (Thur) Hove. Evening drinks with ITH cast.
18 (Fri) 6pm SS. 8pm QT cast supper.
19 (Sat) 8pm MBis.
20 (Sun) Writes one-act play based on Awakenings (Must: 132).
21 (Mon) Paris for B rehearsal.
22 (Tue) London. 1pm lunch PW. 2pm DM Trust meeting. 9pm watches
final TV episode of Brideshead Revisited.
23 (Wed) 7pm ITH cast. 8pm KRs.
25 (Fri) HP, AF have Christmas lunch with PH, DPh and Maria Ewing.
28 (Mon) Reads new play to Longfords.
29 (Tue) 5pm The Oresteia Ol.
30 (Wed) 8pm Mitsuko Uchida and partner Robert Cooper, diplomat.
31 (Thur) 8:30pm SS.
1982
Other Places: Three Plays (OP), first British edition, Methuen; The FLW and Other
Screenplays, first edition, Methuen. ‘The Night of the Day of the Imprisoned
Writer’, Reading of Poetry and Prose Directed by Harold Pinter in Aid of the
PEN Writers in Prison Fund. LP disc (BR: A41a, B5a, J39).
January
1 (Fri) 7pm Verdi’s Il trovatore CGa.
2 (Sat) 8pm ITH.
3 (Sun) 1pm Prunella Scales about QT. Evening KRs.
4 (Mon) 1pm lunch SG. 1:15pm JW. 3:30pm HG. 6pm ITH cast.
5 (Tue) Correspondence with Oliver Sacks (HPA). Working on AKA, ini-
tially called ‘A White Tent’, and ‘Living’: characters named ‘Man
and Woman’ and then ‘Man’, ‘Deborah’ and ‘Pauline’. HP reads
Victoria Station to AF and Natasha Fraser.
6 (Wed) Paris, B rehearsals.
8 (Fri) 1pm lunch Richard Lester: Belvedere.
9 (Sat) 4pm Daniel. 8pm ITH last night.
10 (Sun) 11pm PH.
11 (Mon) 1pm KR: Odin’s. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
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12 (Tue) 1pm lunch JW. 8pm bridge CFs.

13 (Wed) 11pm Richard Lester. 7:45pm Arthur Wing Pinero’s Second
Mrs Tanqueray Ly, then dinner Michael Rudman, Felicity Kendal.
14 (Thur) 1:15pm SG. 4pm DJ, ED. 8pm GW party.
15 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
16 (Sat) 11am DJ.
17 (Sun) 4pm PH. 8pm Mike Bradwell’s Still Crazy After All These Years
Bush Theatre.
18 (Mon) B opens Paris. 8pm FRs.
19 (Tue) 1pm RH: Garrick. 5pm DJ.
20 (Wed) 11am Richard Lester, Twickenham. 7pm bridge Frank Hauser,
director.
22 (Fri) 12:30pm PH. 2:30pm BBC TV Centre.
23 (Sat) 1pm SS. 6pm Daniel. 8pm CB, PR, FWy.
24 (Sun) 6pm CBr.
25 (Mon) 1pm SS, DJ. 8pm SS.
26 (Tue) 12:30pm Evening Standard Awards lunch. 8pm MBis.
27 (Wed) 1pm lunch PA: Belvedere. 4pm DJ. 8pm KRs.
29 (Fri) 1pm Clive Donner, JW.
30 (Sat) 7:30pm Ga dinner.
31 (Sun) 5pm SS, DJ.
February
1 (Mon) 1pm DJ: Thompson’s.
2 (Tue) Hove. 9:25pm Rachel Billington’s Life After Death, BBC1.
3 (Wed) 7:30pm Mozart’s Zaide OV.
4 (Thur) 1pm JBa. 5:30pm CF, NH. 9pm SGs.
5 (Fri) 1pm SS, DJ. 3pm DJ.
7 (Sun) New York.
8 (Mon) To Providence, Rhode Island.
9–10 (Tue–Wed) Ho rehearsal.
11 (Thur) Receives honorary doctorate from Brown University.
12 (Fri) Ho rehearsal.
13 (Sat) New York. 6pm SS.
14 (Sun) 2pm C. 8pm SS.
16 (Tue) 11am SS, DJ. 1pm MN. 7:45pm C cast.
17 (Wed) 11am C rehearsal. 1pm KRs. 3pm SS, DJ. 7:30pm PH. 8pm
Mozart’s Così fan tutte Met, then dinner PH, Maria Ewing.
18 (Thur) Noon lunch SS, DJ. Returns to London.
19 (Fri) 11am Daniel.
20 (Sat) 7:30pm QT last night.
23 (Tue) 8pm Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of George Steiner’s
The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. Mermaid Theatre.
24 (Wed) 4pm DJ. 6pm CBr: Windsor Castle pub.

25 (Thur) Noon PEN.
26 (Fri) Ho first production, Trinity Square Repertory Co., Providence,
Rhode Island.
27 (Sat) Noon GV. 1pm Warners, GV. HP, AF protest outside Polish Embassy,
London, in favour of Solidarity. Other protestors include Salman
Rushdie (SR). Then HP, AF go to a pub with SR (Must: 132–3).
March
1 (Mon) 1pm lunch SS, DJ.
2 (Tue) Noon DJ. 1:15pm JW. Reworking B.
4 (Thur) 1pm lunch PW. 8pm MBis.
5 (Fri) 10am DJ. 1pm DPh.
5–7 (Fri–Sun) RHs.
8–9 (Mon–Tue) 2:30pm B film rehearsals.
8 (Mon) 8pm SS.
10 (Wed) Hove.
11 (Thur) 1pm lunch on behalf of imprisoned writers.
12 (Fri) 1pm JW.
13 (Sat) Writers’ Day.
14 (Sun) 5pm SS, DJ. 8pm SGs.
15 (Mon) 1pm SS. 3pm JW. 6pm DJ. 8pm CFs.
16 (Tue) Twickenham, film tests. 2pm Richard Lester.
17 (Wed) 1pm SG. 6:30pm B screen tests.
18 (Thur) 7pm BAFTA Awards.
19 (Fri) 11am B. 6pm PEN.
20 (Sat) 5pm SS, DJ. 8pm DJ, Anna Carteret, actress (CM’s wife).
22 (Mon) First day shooting B. 3pm B filming locations. 8pm dinner
CB.
23 (Tue) 11am JW, DPh. 1pm SS. 3pm B rushes. 8pm SRs dine with
HP, AF.
24 (Wed) B filming.
25 (Thur) 6:15pm PH and others. 8:45pm Cricket Films NFT.
26 (Fri) 1pm lunch SS. 2pm B filming. 8pm SS. Midnight Daniel.
27 (Sat) 9:25pm Ho BBC2.
29–2 (Mon–Fri) B filming.
29 (Mon) Father’s 80th birthday. 1pm lunch parents.
30 (Tue) Noon JW. 4:30pm HG.
31 (Wed) 4:30pm Daniel. 7pm Angus Wilson, Tony Garrett, Ian
McEwan: Athenaeum.
April
1 (Thur) 1pm lunch JBa. 7:15pm Richard Eyre’s revival of Guys and Dolls Ol.
2 (Fri) 1pm lunch KI. 8pm J.S. Bach concert Barbican.
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3 (Sat) 11am HP, AF listen to House of Commons debate on

Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands – they
agree that Britain should fight.
4 (Sun) 1pm Peter Eyre.
5 (Mon) 2:30pm FP.
6 (Tue) 2:30pm B filming.
7 (Wed) 1pm lunch CBr. 2:30pm B filming. 6pm SS.
8 (Thur) 8pm DPh.
10–12 (Sat–Mon) HP, AF weekend at Oare, Wiltshire, with Henry Keswick
and Tessa (Fraser).
13 (Tue) 2:30pm B filming.
14 (Wed) 1pm lunch JGi.
15 (Thur) 2:30pm B filming. 8pm FRs.
16 (Fri) 7pm Volker Schlöndorff’s film Circle of Deceit at the Gate.
17 (Sat) B filming. AF and her son Damian Fraser represent HP
in Paris for the B French opening (Must: 135–6). Begins
writing film adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Victory (V)
with Richard Lester: ‘the finance for the film was never
found’ (Sharp Cut: 273).
19 (Mon) 2:30pm B filming. 9:25pm sees KI’s direction of Arthur
Schnitzler’s La Ronde BBC1.
21 (Wed) 1pm PW: Tiberio. 2:30pm B filming.
22 (Thur) Evening CFs.
23 (Fri) 1pm lunch SS. 2:30pm B filming. 11pm Daniel.
24 (Sat) 7:30pm Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg Cot.
25 (Sun) First Ga cricket match.
26 (Mon) 8pm bridge Henry Keswick.
28–29 (Wed–Thur) Twickenham, filming B.
30 (Fri) 12:45pm lunch KB: Tiberio. 3pm rushes of B.
April/May
Poem ‘The Ventriloquists’, London Magazine, 22: 1: 36–7 (BR: C21).
May
1 (Sat) 8pm FRs.
2 (Sun) 2pm Ga Old Westminster.
3 (Mon) 8pm bridge.
5 (Wed) 1pm lunch SG: L’Epicure, then works on V. 8pm KRs.
6 (Thur) Ho opens in New York. 1pm lunch Daniel: Thompson’s.
7 (Fri) 9pm SS.
8 (Sat) C.P. Taylor’s play Good about betrayal and genocide, Ald.
9 (Sun) 11:35am Ga Ashtead.
10 (Mon) 8pm bridge KRs.
11–16 (Tue–Sun) Oxford. 6:30pm book reception Blackwell’s. 8:30pm Berlins.
15 (Sat) 1pm John Fuller. 5:45pm Berlins.

16 (Sun) Noon Magdalen College, Oxford.
17 (Mon) 8pm Bob Gottlieb.
19 (Wed) 2:30pm rough cut B. 8pm Stanley Kubrick dinner party given by
screenwriter Diane Johnson.
20 (Thur) 10am B cutting. Noon Richard Lester discusses V, Twickenham.
3pm views B.
21 (Fri) 1pm lunch PA.
22 (Sat) 8pm PR, CB, Ian McEwan.
24 (Mon) 8pm RHs and others.
25 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch LM: Thompson’s.
26 (Wed) 8pm Peter Eyre in Racine’s Berenice Lyric Studio.
27 (Thur) 3pm B cutting. 8pm JBa, JE dinner.
29 (Sat) 1pm Ga Roehampton.
June
1 (Tue) 4pm GW party.
2 (Wed) Noon Giles Cooper Awards (BBC) for radio drama. 7:45pm with
Berlins sees Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya Ly.
3 (Thur) 1pm SS, DJ, John Bloom, film editor, to discuss B.
4 (Fri) Works on V. 7:30pm VM. Midnight Daniel.
5 (Sat) 11am SS, DJ.
6 (Sun) Ga Oxted.
7 (Mon) 7:30pm Henry IV Part I Barbican.
8 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch IH: L’Epicure. 8pm Carl Bernstein and Margaret
Jay.
9 (Wed) Celebrates with parents their wedding anniversary.
10 (Thur) Lord’s with SG for first day of England v India. 8pm KBs.
11 (Fri) First draft of V written. 8pm KRs.
14 (Mon) Noon Twickenham, DJ.
15 (Tue) 10:30am SS. 11am work on B, Twickenham. 7:30pm Mitsuko
Uchida Mozart recital Wigmore Hall.
16 (Wed) 10:30am Richard Lester at Twickenham. 8pm PEN dinner for SR.
18–20 10:30am L reading. 1pm lunch KI, Dorothy Tutin, Colin
(Fri–Sun) Blakely. 6:30pm to Rome with AF for HP’s Donatello (Italian
Oscar) nomination for FLW (Must: 136).
20 (Sun) London.
21 (Mon) Richard Lester starts shooting V. 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 8pm
with KRs sees Julian Mitchell’s Another Country Queen’s Theatre.
22 (Tue) 12:30pm lunch RH: Athenaeum. 8pm bridge CFs.
24 (Thur) 8pm bridge MBis.
25 (Fri) 2pm Daniel.
26 (Sat) 8pm TPs party.
27 (Sun) Ga Barclays Bank.
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28 (Mon) 8pm dinner party, Angus Wilson, Tony Garrett, Emma Tennant,
FRs.
29 (Tue) 12:45pm Twickenham, DJ, SS. 8:30pm GW dinner for DPh.
July
1 (Thur) 8pm JLs.
2 (Fri) Noon L run in Acton. 7:30pm RSC’s All’s Well That Ends Well
Barbican. Midnight Daniel.
3 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
4 (Sun) Lunch John and Penelope Mortimer.
5 (Mon) Noon SS, DJ. 8:30pm American Embassy reception.
6 (Tue) 11am L reading. 2pm B. 8pm cast supper for Miller’s All My Sons.
8 (Thur) 1:15pm lunch Ian McEwan: Thompson’s.
9 (Fri) Amsterdam.
10 (Sat) Evening bridge CFs.
11 (Sun) Ga Eastcote.
13 (Tue) 10am NT. 4pm exhibition of Gwen John’s paintings d’Offay
Gallery. 5pm with KRs sees Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo
Camden Plaza.
14 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch Terence Rigby: Le Caprice. 6pm PEN meeting at
HP’s. 8pm DPh and others.
15 (Thur) Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice Glyndebourne.
16 (Fri) Hove. 8pm Peter and Thelma Nichols, JG and others.
18 (Sun) 1pm John Osborne party.
19 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch PW: Ritz. 6pm listens to B music. 8pm SGs.
20 (Tue) 8:30pm SS.
21 (Wed) 8pm Terry Johnson’s Insignificance RC.
23 (Fri) Stratford-upon-Avon, MGa as King Lear.
25 (Sun) Noon CBr, then Ga Alleyns.
26 (Mon) 12:45pm Richard Lester, Pinewood.
27 (Tue) 1pm lunch PA. 8pm FRs.
28 (Wed) 10:30am B dubbing SS, DJ.
29 (Thur) 1:30pm to New York.
29–6 Aug HP, AF at Carlyle Hotel, New York, then Rhode Island for
(Thur–Fri) family holiday at house by the sea.
August
5 (Thur) Has confrontation with anti-Semite at dinner.
6 (Fri) Rhode Island. Senator’s wife apologizes to HP ‘on behalf of
Rhode Island’ (Must: 136–7).
16 (Mon) 8:15pm Boston to London.
17 (Tue) London.
18 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch JBa. 8pm Clifford Odets’ Rocket to the Moon
Hampstead Theatre.
20 (Fri) Goes to Bernhurst with AF.

22 (Sun) Ga NatWest Bank.
23 (Mon) Patrick Magee’s (actor) funeral Mortlake Crematorium.
24 (Tue) Noon discusses OP NT. 3pm HG.
25 (Wed) 8pm Angus Wilson, FRs, RHs.
27 (Fri) Celebrates AF’s 50th birthday North British Hotel, Edinburgh.
Family picnic on King Arthur’s Seat (Must: 137–8).
28 (Sat) Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, Edinburgh Festival.
29 (Sun) London.
30 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
31 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure.
September
1 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch Daniel: Thompson’s, then to Ol.
2 (Thur) 1pm PH, NT. 8pm dinner DPh.
3–5 (Fri–Sun) Dorset.
6 (Mon) 2:30pm OP Reading. 5:30pm B screening.
9 (Thur) VM goes to hospital.
10–12 (Fri–Sun) North-east of England tour.
13 (Mon) London. 8pm GW party for Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem.
14 (Tue) 1pm lunch SS.
15 (Wed) 7:45pm Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest NT.
17 (Fri) First rehearsal OP. 5pm B screening. 6:30pm JBa.
18 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
19 (Sun) Ga Sidcup.
20 (Mon) Rehearsal OP.
21 (Tue) 12:15pm KR. 8:15pm dinner for Peter Quennell, biographer.
22 (Wed) 2:30pm rehearsal FV, part of OP. HP unwell.
23 (Thur) Noon HG. 4pm JW.
24 (Fri) 2:15pm OP run.
26 (Sun) Dinner for Elizabeth Jane Howard, novelist.
27 (Mon) 2pm SG. 8pm KRs.
30 (Thur) Rehearsal Norwich, Norfolk.
October
2 (Sat) 7:30pm dinner JBa, JE.
3 (Sun) VM dies.
4 (Mon) 10am Daniel.
5 (Tue) 4pm Daniel, Harrods.
6 (Wed) 7:30pm KRs.
7 (Thur) OP technical consultancy NT.
8 (Fri) VM cremation.
9 (Sat) OP preview.
10 (Sun) 8pm CFs, SGs.
12 (Tue) 10:30am with Daniel collects VM’s death certificate.
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14 (Thur) 7pm press night OP triple bill – AKA, Victoria Station, FV –

Cot, directed by PH (Must: 138–9).
15–17 (Fri–Sun) HP, AF go to the Lythe Hill Hotel, Surrey.
19 (Tue) 1:30pm lunch HG: Little Acropolis. 8:45pm dinner OS,
Millers (Must: 139).
20 (Wed) Noon Richard Lester, Twickenham.
21 (Thur) 1pm JW.
22 (Fri) Noon Memorial Service for Patrick Magee.
23 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch PW: La Loggia.
25 (Mon) 2:30pm Daniel.
29 (Fri) Hove.
31 (Sun) Evening bridge.
November
3 (Wed) 8pm David Fromkin, DPh.
6 (Sat) 7:15pm Howard Brenton’s version of Georg Büchner’s
Danton’s Death Ol.
7 (Sun) 8pm JBa, JE.
10 (Wed) Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
11 (Thur) 12:30pm John Casey. 6pm Amnesty reception House of
Commons. 8pm bridge CFs.
12 (Fri) 1pm lunch JW: Drones. 3:30pm Daniel. 6:30pm SG.
7:15pm Dramatists Club dinner.
13 (Sat) 8pm FRs and others.
14 (Sun) 3pm London Film Festival NFT.
16 (Tue) 7pm TS’s The Real Thing Strand Theatre.
17 (Wed) 12:30pm GV.
18 (Thur) 3pm JW. 6:30pm PEN party Chelsea Arts Club.
19 (Fri) 1pm JLs. 8pm MBis.
21 (Sun) DPh.
24 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. Completes V film script.
25 (Thur) 1:15pm JBa.
27–28 (Sat–Sun) Paris with AF, wedding anniversary, Hôtel Meurice, see
Jean Anouilh play.
29 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch Michael Frayn: Belvedere. Sees Dekker,
Ford, Rowley’s The Witch of Edmonton The Pit.
30 (Tue) Twickenham, meets Richard Lester.
December
AKA British Acting Edition, Samuel French, published (BR: A42).
2 (Thur) 1:15pm lunch DP: L’Epicure. 9:30 pm MBis party.
3 (Fri) 1pm JW. 3pm interview with Michael Dean about Noël Coward,
BBC TV. 8pm bridge William (Wa) and Caroline Waldegrave (Was).
4 (Sat) 7:15pm sees film Gandhi.

5 (Sun) 11am AS. 7:30pm Ga AGM.
7 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch David Mamet and his wife Lindsay Crouse: Le
Caprice. 8pm bridge CFs.
8 (Wed) 7:30pm DP.
9 (Thur) 1pm lunch RH: Ritz. 6pm European premiere of SB’s Rockaby
Cot, with Billie Whitelaw. HP’s OP follows at 7:30pm.
10 (Fri) 1pm parents. 8pm Martin Sherman’s Messiah Hampstead Theatre.
11 (Sat) 1pm lunch AS and his wife Jean. 7:30pm OP Cot.
12 (Sun) 1pm lunch P.D. James, FWy. 6pm JG, EO.
13 (Mon) 7pm OP assistance. 10pm RHs.
14 (Tue) 1pm lunch DJ. 7:45pm dinner Longfords.
15 (Wed) 10am Daniel. 8:30pm dinner EO, LOs, DPh: Odin’s.
16 (Thur) 12:30pm TA, GG. 3pm HG. 8pm bridge.
17 (Fri) 7:30pm György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre Coliseum. 10pm DPh
party.
18 (Sat) 1pm JW. 7:30pm KRs.
19 (Sun) 9pm Richard Harris’ Outside Edge ITV/London.
21 (Tue) 1pm KR.
22 (Wed) 12:45pm lunch SG: Belvedere. 8pm party LOs.
23 (Thur) 1pm lunch family.
25 (Sat) 1pm EO, DPh and others.
27 (Mon) 8pm Frayns.
28 (Tue) 8pm Benjie Fraser (BF).
30 (Thur) 8pm Was.
31 (Fri) Lunch SG: L’Epicure. Evening KRs.
1983
Harold Pinter with Benedict Nightingale, in series ‘Writers in Conver-

sation’ No. 27. VHS [tape] (BR: K24). HP receives Oscar nomination for best
screenplay B.
January
1 (Sat) 1pm lunch PW. 8pm MBis.
2 (Sun) 1pm lunch Johnsons, Iver.
3 (Mon) 8:30pm Alfred Brendel, pianist, and wife Irene visit.
4 (Tue) 5pm Daniel. 8pm bridge Peter Jay and others.
5 (Wed) 1pm lunch parents, Hove.
6 (Thur) 1pm lunch Barry Foster: L’Epicure. 3pm PH. 6pm CB Ly.
7 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch JW.
8 (Sat) 8pm OP.
9 (Sun) 4:30pm PW.
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10 (Sun) 8pm PR, CB.

11 (Tue) NT, then Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff: Jobs for the Boys
(BBC2).
12 (Wed) 1pm lunch with JW and others. 6pm meets Ossie Gooding, Ga
cricketer. 9pm H film Channel 4.
13 (Thur) 1pm PH. 6pm Robert Brenton’s Still of the Night Odeon
Haymarket.
14 (Fri) 1pm JBa. 7:30pm Midsummer Night’s Dream Cot.
15 (Sat) 8pm Edward and Joanna Fox, SGs.
16 (Sun) 6:30pm FF.
17 (Mon) Noon Drama Quarterly Awards. 5:30pm NT casting.
18 (Tue) 1pm Christopher Fry. 8pm DPh.
19 (Wed) 1:30pm SG. 7pm Jean Rhys PEN evening.
20 (Thur) Noon Susan Fleetwood, actress. 6pm ED. 9pm FRs.
21 (Fri) 5:30pm Harrison Birtwistle. 8pm bridge Was.
22 (Sat) 6pm JW. 7:45pm David Hare’s A Map of the World Ly.
23 (Sun) 6pm ED, FRs. 8pm bridge CFs.
24 (Mon) AF, HP walk ‘in Kew Gardens in winter sunshine’ (Must: 139).
3pm B showing.
25 (Tue) 12:15pm attends Evening Standard Awards reception. 7pm with
Berlins, Verdi’s Otello Coliseum.
26 (Wed) 4:30pm casting NT. 7:30pm PEN.
27 (Thur) 1:15pm GW: Ritz.
28 (Fri) 3pm NT. 5pm L, BAFTA Awards.
29 (Sat) Hove. 8pm JW.
30 (Sun) 8pm RHs and others.
31 (Mon) JW.
February
1 (Tue) Noon NT OP auditions.
2 (Wed) HP, AF fly to Jamaica.
3–13 (Thur–Sun) HP, AF in Jamaica, meet Maurice Stoppi, HP’s school-
friend also evacuated to Caerhays. HP writes poem about
AF’s swimming.
4 (Fri) BBC2 production of L, directed by KI.
13 (Sun) HP, AF to New York.
13–22 (Sun–Tue) New York. HP suffering from chest infection. Dine with
OS (Must: 140).
18 (Fri) SS arranges the launching of the B film: includes two-
hour press conference which HP curtails.
20 (Sun) B opens in New York.
22 (Tue) London.
23 (Wed) 1pm JW. 5:30pm EO. Howard Kissell interview (Women’s
Wear Daily, 40; BR: G54).
24 (Thur) 1pm HG. 8pm MBis.

25 (Fri) 6:15pm Terry Glinwood, film producer: Mayfair Hotel. 8pm
Daniel.
26 (Sun) 7:30pm KRs.
28 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch CM: Le Caprice. 4pm auditions. 6pm ED.
March
1 (Tue) 7:30pm Peter Gill’s Kick for Touch Cot.
2 (Wed) 12:30pm lunch JLs. 7:45pm Alfred Brendel concert QEH.
3 (Thur) 1pm Martin Jarvis, actor. 3:15pm auditions. 8pm Warners.
4 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 8pm KRs.
6 (Sun) 1pm FRs. 8pm EO.
7 (Mon) 2pm PH sees stage model for Giraudoux play Ly. 4pm
production meeting.
8 (Tue) 1pm lunch AF. 8pm RS.
9 (Wed) 4pm Giraudoux The Trojan War Play auditions, HP
directing. 8pm JBa, JE.
10 (Thur) 1pm JL.
11 (Fri) 3pm HG. 6pm GV paintings exhibition.
12 (Sat) 8pm Michael Rudman’s Short List Hampstead Theatre.
13 (Sun) 6pm Christopher Fry, translator of Giraudoux.
14–16 (Mon–Wed) Rehearsals The Trojan War.
15 (Tue) Death of Rebecca West (Must: 142).
19 (Sat) Writers’ Day Purcell Room, QEH. 7:30pm last perfor-
mance OP. 10pm cast party.
20 (Sun) 1pm lunch DPh and others.
21 (Mon) 1pm rehearsal. 7pm NT Associates’ meeting.
22 (Tue) 6:30pm meets RH drinks: Garrick.
23 (Wed) 1pm rehearsal, Christopher Fry attends. Dinner with
the SGs.
24 (Thur) 10:30am rehearsal. 8pm KRs.
25 (Fri) 9:25pm watches profile of Noël Coward, A Private Life,
BBC1.
26 (Sat) SS.
27 (Sun) 6pm nets.
28 (Mon) Celebrates BF’s birthday.
29 (Tue) 10am rehearsal.
30 (Wed) 8pm GW dinner.
April
1 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
2 (Sat) Hove.
3 (Sun) 8:25pm watches LO as King Lear on Channel 4.
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4 (Mon) 1pm JW.

5–9 (Tue–Sat) Rehearsals.
5 (Tue) 6pm HG.
6 (Wed) 10am Christopher Fry Ly. 8pm FRs.
7 (Thur) 7:30pm Anthony and Cleopatra The Pit.
8 (Fri) 8pm MBis.
9 (Sat) 8pm GV.
10 (Sun) 1pm DJ. 4pm HG. 8pm bridge Was.
11 (Mon) 8pm SS.
12–13 (Tue–Wed) Rehearsals.
14 (Thur) 6:30pm JD Ly bar.
15 (Fri) 10:30am play run. 7pm BAFTA screening of Nicolas
Roeg’s Eureka.
17 (Sun) JBa birthday party.
18 (Mon) 10:30am rehearsal.
19 (Tue) 10pm Ben Kingsley, DJ.
20 (Wed) PH, Christopher Fry.
23 (Sat) 8pm bridge CFs. JW dies.
25 (Mon) 9:30am HG. 3:30pm JW funeral. 10pm SGs.
26 (Tue) 2:30pm Giraudoux run.
27 (Wed) 10:30am rehearsal. B revival, Greenwich Theatre.
28 (Thur) Giraudoux. 6pm JD: Café Royal.
29 (Fri) 9am lighting meeting. 1pm Terence Baker. 7:15pm dress
rehearsal.
30 (Sat) 7:30pm dress rehearsal.
May
1 (Sun) 1pm PW.
2–7 (Mon–Sat) Previews and dress rehearsals.
9 (Mon) Preview.
10 (Tue) Opening night The Trojan War Ly.
12 (Thur) 1:15pm lunch JD: L’Epicure. Dinner SGs: L’Epicure.
14 (Sat) 1pm lunch Daniel: Thompson’s. 8pm Brian Friel’s The
Communication Cord Hampstead Theatre.
15 (Sun) 1pm lunch CBr. 8pm MBis.
16 (Mon) Noon ED. 1:30pm lunch SG: Belvedere. Rehearsals The
Trojan War. 8:30pm DPh dinner.
17 (Tue) pm The Trojan War.
18 (Wed) Hove. 5:30pm DJ and others.
19 (Thur) Creativity reawakened. At Le Caprice restaurant, London,
mentions play about imprisonment and torture: becomes
foundation for One for the Road (OFR, Must: 142). 7:30pm
Puccini’s Manon Lescaut CGa.
20 (Fri) 1pm lunch AS. 8pm MBis.

21 (Sat) 8pm FRs.
23 (Mon) 3:30pm JD. 6pm SG. 8pm KRs.
24 (Tue) 12:30pm Richard Johnson. 3:30pm rehearsal The Trojan War.
25 (Wed) Takes notes from actor’s perspective during matinee of The Trojan
War.
26 (Thur) 1pm Thelma Wax. 8pm MBis.
28 (Sat) Young Vic revival of C. B cast dinner Greenwich.
30 (Mon) 8pm David Fromkin.
31 (Tue) 12:45pm lunch PW: La Loggia. 5:30pm JL. 8pm KRs.
June
1 (Wed) 1pm lunch Bill Bryden: L’Epicure. 7:30pm PEN.
2 (Thur) 1pm lunch JD: Le Caprice. 6:30pm TS. 8pm Patricia Hodge and
husband Peter Douglas Owen, music publisher.
3 (Fri) Afternoon rehearsal The Trojan War. 8pm CB, PR.
4 (Sat) Matinee The Trojan War.
8 (Wed) 1pm lunch JBa. 4:30pm Terry Glinwood.
9 (Thur) Parents’ wedding anniversary. 1pm lunch parents. Votes for the
Social Democratic Party (SDP) at General Election (Must: 142–3).
8pm CFs.
10 (Sat) 1pm lunch Richard Johnson, Diana Rigg, SG.
11 (Sat) Suffolk, stays with Angus Wilson, Tony Garrett. Benjamin Britten’s
The Turn of the Screw Aldeburgh.
12 (Sun) London.
13 (Mon) 1pm lunch EO: Thompson’s.
15 (Wed) Oval, West Indies v India.
16 (Thur) 12:30pm Jeremy Isaacs, TV producer.
17 (Fri) 6pm JD.
18 (Sat) 6pm JL. 8pm CFs.
20 (Mon) 1pm lunch PA. 7:30pm Beethoven’s Fidelio CGa.
21 (Tue) 12:30pm lunch Maurice Stoppi: Belvedere. 4:30pm Bill Brandt.
8:30pm SS.
22 (Wed) Oval, West Indies v Pakistan. 5:30pm SS.
23 (Thur) 1pm lunch Richard Johnson and others: Le Caprice. 3pm with SS
to Virgin Films. 7:45pm dinner Greenwich (The Dining Room).
24 (Fri) 12:15pm lunch SG and Ken Ewing: Belvedere. 7:15pm Maurice
Stoppi. 8:30pm GW. 10:30pm attends dance given by Dimitri
Marchessini, ship owner, eminent bridge expert.
25 (Sat) Lord’s, India v West Indies. 8:30pm MBis party.
27 (Mon) 11am rehearsal. 3pm run-through The Trojan War.
28 (Tue) 1pm SS. 5pm rehearsal.
29 (Wed) 12:30pm sees B trailer. 1:30pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 5:45pm tea
Christopher Fry, then they see The Trojan War.
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30 (Thur) 1pm Thelma Wax. 3pm JD. 5:30pm cast members The Trojan
War. 8pm MBis.
July
4 (Mon) 8pm Angus Wilson, Tony Garrett, TPs.
6 (Wed) 6pm drinks London Zoo. 7:45pm dinner Angus Wilson: Garrick.
7 (Thur) 1:15pm lunch Bill Brandt: Le Caprice.
8 (Fri) Hove.
9 (Sat) 1pm lunch Michael Forrest, actor: Thompson’s. 6pm Daniel.
11 (Mon) 3pm JD. 8pm Frayns.
12 (Tue) 1pm lunch LM, John Rees, political activist: Thompson’s. 10pm
MBis.
13 (Wed) 6pm Emma Tennant party. 9pm family dinner.
14 (Thur) 8pm JLs.
15 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG. 8pm EO.
18 (Mon) 1:30pm lunch Richard Johnson: Le Caprice. 8pm Was.
19 (Tue) 1pm JBa Belvedere. 8pm Hampstead Theatre Club David
Williamson’s The Perfectionist.
20 (Wed) The Trojan War run-throughs.
21 (Thur) 3pm HG.
22 (Fri) 1pm lunch JL: England Garden.
23 (Sat) HP XI Guardian cricket match. Pre-match garden buffet HP’s.
24 (Sun) 6pm Daniel.
25 (Mon) 1:30pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 8pm CFs.
27 (Wed) HP, AF Chichester. 1pm parents. 6pm Christopher Fry, then see
Patricia Hodge as Rosalind in As You Like It (Must: 143–4).
29 (Fri) 1pm lunch LM: Thompson’s. 6pm JD.
30 (Sat) 1pm DPh. 8pm CFs.
August
1–14 (Mon–Sun) Holiday.
15 (Mon) London.
16 (Tue) 3:30pm JD, Thelma Wax.
17 (Wed) Lord’s, NatWest semi-final: Middlesex v. Somerset. 9pm
P.D. James party.
18 (Thur) Noon JL. 6pm Daniel. 8pm Teresa and John Wells,
DPh.
19 (Fri) 6pm Russell Hoban, author, Turtle Diary (TD), Giles Foster,
TV director.
22 (Mon) Hove.
23 (Tue) 1pm lunch JD: Le Caprice, then The Trojan War.
24 (Wed) 7:30pm sees AB in Osborne’s A Patriot for Me Theatre
Royal Haymarket.
25 (Thur) 11pm NT. 1pm Ronald Bryden, critic, and others.
26–29 (Fri–Mon) Bernhurst.

31 (Wed) 1pm HG.
September
1 (Thur) 1pm SG.
2 (Fri) 8pm SS.
3 (Sat) Lord’s, NatWest Final, Somerset v Kent. 8pm FRs, FW.
6 (Tue) 1pm lunch JL: English Garden. 4pm SS.
7 (Wed) 1pm lunch Richard Johnson: Le Caprice. 6pm Cot: HP’s ‘Players’,
45 minutes Platform Performance.
8 (Thur) 2:30pm rehearsal Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross Cot. 6pm ‘Players’.
11 (Sun) EO party.
12 (Mon) 8pm MBis.
13 (Tue) 1pm JD. 9pm dinner TPs.
14 (Wed) 12:45pm Dorchester Hotel, Foyles lunch for Sir Michael Redgrave.
8pm KRs.
15 (Thur) 8pm Was.
16 (Fri) 1pm PA. 7:30pm Glengarry Glen Ross.
17 (Sat) 1pm lunch Daniel: Thompson’s.
20 (Tue) 1pm lunch Richard Johnson, Barry Foster and others.
21 (Wed) 8pm Hanif Kureishi’s Birds of Passage Hampstead Theatre.
22 (Thur) 11am JD. 1:30pm lunch SG: Le Caprice. 6pm Methuen publish-
ers party. 8pm CFs.
23 (Fri) Sees The Trojan War cast.
24 (Sat) Visits Warners.
27 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch David Aukin. 6pm Michael Owen, journalist.
9pm dinner EO: Thompson’s.
28 (Wed) 1pm GW lunch for Elizabeth Longford. 4pm Jonathan Miller.
6pm Daniel. 8pm KRs.
29 (Thur) 12:30pm lunch Giles Foster, theatrical director: Thompson’s.
8pm SGs.
30 (Fri) 1pm lunch HG: Belvedere. 5:30pm JBa.
October
2 (Sun) 1pm lunch DPh: Le Caprice.
3 (Mon) 1pm photographer. 6:15pm B, BAFTA Awards. 8pm dinner
SS: Wilton’s. 9.30pm BAFTA Awards.
4 (Tue) B screening.
5 (Wed) 1pm SS. British Film Institute (BFI) Guildhall dinner.
6 (Thur) 11am JD. 1pm lunch Giles Foster: Thompson’s. 7pm SG. B
opens Curzon cinema.
7–9 (Fri–Sun) Yorkshire.
7 (Fri) Interview with Michael Owen, ‘Pinter: My Split with Hall’
(Evening Standard, 24–5; BR: G55).
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10 (Mon) 1pm MBis. 8pm KRs.

12 (Wed) 1pm SG.
14 (Fri) 2pm Giles Foster. 8pm Was.
15 (Sat) Noon GV. 8pm Woody Allen’s Zelig with KRs.
17 (Mon) 12:30pm lunch MGa: Thompson’s. Dinner for Sir Jack Plumb: Ritz.
18 (Tue) 12:15pm lunch JD: Odin’s. 2:15pm Giles Foster. Final The Trojan
War performance.
19 (Wed) 4:30pm KR. 8pm CFs.
20 (Thur) 1:15pm lunch MC and others. 3:15pm Giles Foster, Russell
Hoban. 6:30pm SG.
21 (Fri) Noon Giles Foster.
22 (Sat) 11am involved with CND march. 8pm KRs.
24 (Mon) 2pm Giles Foster. 7:30pm Hugh Whitemore’s Pack of Lies Lyric
Theatre.
25 (Tue) 12:45pm lunch Anthony Hopkins: Thompson’s. 6:30pm sees
RH’s film The Dresser, with RH, then they dine at the Garrick.
26 (Wed) 11:30am JD. 5:30pm PA.
27 (Thur) 6pm JD, NFT.
28 (Fri) Eastbourne, works on TD.
November
4 (Fri) ‘Ghost’ (TLS, 4205: 1204; BR: C22).
6 (Sun) London. 8:30pm Amos Oz party.
7 (Mon) Noon Giles Foster. 8pm dinner Daniel: Thompson’s.
9 (Wed) 10:30am Giles Foster. 6pm hears Elizabeth Longford talk
at Royal Society of Arts. 7:30pm PEN.
10 (Thur) 1pm lunch Ian McEwan: Thompson’s. 3:30pm obtains
word processor. 6pm CBr.
11–13 (Fri–Sun) Giles Foster.
11 (Fri) 6pm Michael Blakemore, director.
12 (Sat) 6pm CF. 8pm Aukins, Thelma Wax.
13 (Sun) 6:30pm JG.
14 (Mon) 1pm Antonia Byatt. 7pm Verdi’s Otello Spanish Embassy.
15 (Tue) Patricia Hodge. 3pm HG. 9pm dinner David Fromkin: Le
Caprice.
16 (Wed) Parents. 5:30pm JL, Verity Lambert, TV and film producer.
17 (Thur) Noon Westminster Abbey Thanksgiving tribute celebrat-
ing the life of RR. 8pm Ga meeting.
18 (Fri) 6:15pm preview film EO’s The Country Girls NFT.
19 (Sat) 8pm bridge
20 (Sun) 5:30pm Verdi’s La Traviata film Odeon Haymarket.
22 (Tue) 6pm JD.
23 (Wed) 6:30pm Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov CGa, with FRs.
24 (Thur) Involved with Peace Show activities.

26 (Sat) 6:20pm B film at the Curzon. 8pm GW supper.
27 (Sun) HP, AF celebrate third wedding anniversary by throwing a party:
Connaught.
28 (Mon) 1pm JBa.
29 (Tue) 5pm JBa and others.
30 (Wed) 12:30pm lunch Thelma Wax.
December
Drafts of TD with revisions.
1 (Thur) 1pm lunch LM: Thompson’s. 5pm SG.

2 (Fri) 8:30pm dinner SG: L’Epicure. Discuss The Common Pursuit
(CPu). For a daily account of the production of CPu see SG, An
Unnatural Pursuit and Other Pieces (1985).
3 (Sat) ‘Boom, also Collage of Lines and Words. Pinter as Writer and
Speaker.’ Recorded Young Vic, 2:30pm. Frances Horovitz, poet,
Memorial Reading. Evening All Souls dinner with Wa.
4 (Sun) 8pm bridge.
5 (Mon) 1pm lunch Kerry Lee Crabbe, director: Thompson’s.
6 (Tue) 3:30pm JD. 6pm preview of The Jewel in the Crown (TV series).
7 (Wed) 1pm lunch Richard Johnson: Le Caprice. 7pm Hitchcock’s Rear
Window Screen on the Hill.
8 (Thur) 2pm Giles Foster. 8:30pm Brendels.
9 (Fri) 10am Giles Foster. 4:30pm Cambridge to see John Casey.
10 (Sat) 9:15pm The Day After, ITV, fictional film of consequences of a
nuclear attack on Kansas City.
11 (Sun) 8pm bridge Peter Jay.
12 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch SG: Thompson’s. 6pm Gabriel Josipovici.
13 (Tue) Recording Precisely BBC (BR: W47). 8pm dinner Warners.
15 (Thur) 8pm interview Newsnight, about Precisely, BBC2.
16 (Fri) 2:30pm rehearsal Precisely Apollo Theatre.
17 (Sat) Nicholas Wright’s Custom of the Country, directed by DJ, The Pit.
18 (Sun) 7pm directs The Big One, including Precisely, Peace Show at the
Apollo Victoria Theatre (see BR: A44a).
20 (Tue) Hove. 8:15pm dinner PR, CB.
21 (Wed) 4pm JD. 7pm FRs.
22 (Thur) 6pm dinner CM and others.
23 (Fri) 1:30pm lunch SS: Connaught. 8pm CFs.
26 (Mon) OS, SG.
27–5 Jan New York.
(Tue–Thur)
27 (Tue) 8pm JG.
28 (Wed) New York cast of OT.
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29–30 (Thur–Fri) Rehearsals OT.

30 (Fri) 1pm KR. 8pm dinner for Barbara Epstein, literary editor.
31 (Sat) Preview TS’s The Real Thing, directed by MN. 8pm KRs.
11pm Meryl Streep party.
1984
Victoria Station British Acting Edition, Samuel French. Precisely, Methuen in

anthology The Big One. OFR first British edition, Methuen (BR: A43, 44a, 45a).
January
First drafts of TD and OFR written.
1 (Sun) 8pm Mamets.
2 (Mon) 1pm DJ.
3 (Tue) 5pm AS. 8pm OT cast supper.
4 (Wed) 1pm lunch MN. 6pm party at Milton Goldman’s, prominent
New York theatrical agent. 9pm drinks with JG and others.
5 (Thur) London.
6 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch JD: L’Epicure. Argues with two Turkish girls over
torture.
7 (Sat) Reads what becomes OFR to AF. They discuss character names
based on cricketers and the name of the child. Immediately, HP
writes a new scene (Must: 144–5).
9 (Mon) 6:15pm PA. 8pm KRs.
10 (Tue) 5pm Giles Foster. 8pm bridge MBis.
11 (Wed) Lunch JD, SG: L’Epicure. 8:30pm MBis.
12 (Thur) Noon Giles Foster. 6pm SG.
14 (Sat) 1pm JLs.
16 (Mon) 11am JD. Noon SG.
17 (Tue) 8pm PR, CB.
18 (Wed) 2:30pm Index on Censorship meeting The Pit. 6pm SG. 8pm
CFs.
19 (Thur) 3pm AS. 8pm Brian Thompson’s Turning Over Bush Theatre.
20 (Fri) Hove.
22 (Sun) Poem ‘Before They Fall’ (Observer, 52; BR: C23).
23 (Mon) Noon lunch SG and others. 5:30pm HG.
24 (Tue) 6pm JD. Letter ‘Peace Studies’ (Times, 11e; BR: F10).
25 (Wed) 10:15am Giles Foster. 8pm dinner GW.
26 (Thur) 1pm HG: Cumberland Hotel. 6pm CB.
27 (Fri) 1:30pm lunch PR: Thompson’s.
28 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
29 (Sun) 6:30pm AB.
30 (Mon) 8pm MBis.
February
1 (Wed) 1pm GV. 3pm HG.
2 (Thur) 1:15pm lunch Daniel: Thompson’s. 4pm Roger Lloyd-
Pack, Victor in OFR. 6pm P.D. James, ED Lyric Studio
Hammersmith.
3 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG. 3:30pm David Porter, Associate Director,
Lyric Hammersmith. 8pm CFs.
4 (Sat) 8pm MC and others.
6 (Mon) 6pm JD. 8pm bridge.
8 (Wed) 7:30pm PEN with RH.
9 (Thur) 1pm JBa. 6:30pm CBr and others.
10 (Fri) 12:30pm SG, then to Lyric for OFR rehearsals. 5:30pm
Thelma Wax. 7:30pm Giordano’s Andrea Chénier CGa.
11 (Sat) 1pm JL. Under Fire Leicester Square cinema.
13 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch Andrew Graham-Yooll, author:
Fisherman’s Wharf. 8pm Was.
14–16 (Tue–Thur) Paris with AF and Damian Fraser.
15 (Wed) 7pm SB (Must: 145). 9:30pm Eric Kahane.
16 (Thur) London.
17 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG: Thompson’s. Afternoon Lyric Hammer-
smith.
18 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch AB, Jenny Quayle and Roger Lloyd-Pack,
leads in OFR: Thompson’s. 6pm ED, SG.
19 (Sun) Noon FRs. 6pm DPh, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward
and others.
20 (Mon) 8pm Philip King’s See How They Run Shaftesbury Theatre.
21 (Tue) 1pm lunch DJ: Odin’s.
22 (Wed) 1pm GW lunch for Abba Eban. 8pm with SG, Athol
Fugard’s Boesman and Lena Hampstead Theatre.
23 (Thur) 8pm dinner Frayns.
24 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG. 8pm Hugh Thomas, historian, and
Vanessa Thomas.
25 (Sat) 6pm SG and others. 8pm E.A. Whitehead’s The Man
Who Fell in Love With His Wife Lyric Studio.
26 (Sun) Hove, celebrates FP’s 80th birthday.
27–3 (Mon–Sat) OFR rehearsals.
March
1 (Thur) 6:15pm DJ and others. 8pm CFs. B Academy Award nomi-
nation. Bound screenplay ‘Turtle Diary’ (dated).
4 (Sun) HP, Daniel to Norfolk.
5–9 (Mon–Fri) Rehearsals.
6 (Tue) Hugh Fraser dies of lung cancer. Around this time HP stops
‘smoking – from sixty Black Sobranies a day’ (Must: 175).
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7 (Wed) 6pm JD.

9 (Fri) 8pm CFs.
10 (Sat) Hugh Fraser funeral. 8pm dinner SG: Thompson’s.
11–12 (Sun–Mon) Dress rehearsals.
13 (Tue) Lunchtime, OFR premieres Lyric Theatre Studio,
Hammersmith, a double bill with Victoria Station,
both directed by HP.
14 (Wed) 10:30am rehearsal, press preview. 6:30pm JD.
15 (Thur) OFR receives a negative review from MBi in the
Guardian (see Must: 145–6).
16 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG and others. 5:30pm DJ. 7:30pm
Dramatists Club dinner with PR. Bryan Appleyard
interview (Times, 13; BR: G56).
19 (Mon) 1pm SS.
20 (Tue) 11am JD. 6pm party for ‘Jimmy’, tribute to JW (BR: E22).
21 (Wed) 8pm bridge Peter Jay.
22 (Thur) 1pm lunch Bryan Appleyard: Le Caprice.
23 (Fri) 12:45pm lunch SG: Capri, then to the Lyric. 5pm SS.
8pm Michael Hastings’ Tom and Viv RC.
24 (Sat) 8:30pm SS.
26 (Mon) 1pm lunch AB, JD.
27–5 Apr (Tue–Thur) New York.
April
3 (Tue) OFR reopens at Lyric. AKA in triple bill, OP and Victoria Station,
Manhattan Theatre Club, directed by AS.
5 (Thur) London.
6 (Fri) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s.
7 (Sat) 1pm Lyric.
10 (Tue) 11am Hugh Fraser Memorial Service. 6:30pm HW.
11 (Wed) 1pm SG. 3:15pm auditions for SG’s CPu to be directed by HP.
12 (Thur) PA, Lyric. 3pm auditions. 8pm CFs.
13 (Fri) 11:30am SG. 1:30pm Richard Lester. 4pm HG. 8pm PR, CB.
14 (Sat) HP, AF lunch and garden party for finish of OFR (Must: 146).
15 (Sun) 1pm Hove. 8pm Was.
16 (Mon) 8pm SS.
17 (Tue) Auditions.
18 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch SS: Le Caprice. 6pm ED.
20 (Fri) 7:30pm HW.
21–22 Warners.
(Sat–Sun)
22 (Sun) Interviewee in ‘Admit Me, Chorus, to this History’, in series ‘All
the World’s a Stage’, directed by Henry Hastings, BBC2, first
transmitted, 8.40–9:35pm. Recording in BFI (BR: K25).
23 (Mon) London. 7:45pm Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserv’d Ly.

24 (Tue) 6pm P.D. James.
25 (Wed) Lord’s, MCC v Essex. 6pm JD.
26 (Thur) Cambridgeshire with Daniel.
27 (Fri) 1pm BBC. 6pm CBr, NH.
28 (Sat) 10:30am rehearsal OFR for Amnesty benefit. 8pm Was.
30 (Mon) 1pm lunch PW: Ritz. 6:15pm HW.
May
1 (Tue) 8pm dinner for Karl Leyser, medieval historian, Fellow of
Magdalen College, Oxford.
2 (Wed) Noon SG. Evening GW party for AF.
3 (Thur) 1pm JD. Death of AS.
4 (Fri) 1pm lunch JL: L’Epicure. 3:30pm HG.
5 (Sat) Noon JL. 8pm CFs.
7 (Mon) 1pm lunch Eric Kahane: Connaught. 6pm Michael Culver,
actor, SG.
8 (Tue) 3:30pm CPu auditions, Lyric. 8pm Paul Channon, politician,
and wife Ingrid.
9 (Wed) 1pm lunch CM: Le Caprice. 8pm celebrates Orlando Fraser’s
birthday: Odin’s.
10 (Thur) 1pm lunch JD: Belvedere.
11 (Fri) 1pm lunch Diana Quick, actress. 4:30pm auditions.
12 (Sat) 7pm Verdi’s The Sicilian Vespers Coliseum.
14 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch Thelma Wax: Le Caprice. 5pm rehearsal.
15 (Tue) 1pm lunch JBa: Belvedere. 6pm Chris Hudgins, academic. 7pm
SG and others.
16 (Wed) 1pm lunch SG: Belvedere. 6pm Robert (Bob) East, actor and
cricketing chum.
17 (Thur) 6pm JD.
18 (Fri) 6pm CBr, NH. 8pm KRs.
19 (Sat) Hove. 8pm DPh party.
20 (Sun) DPh lunch. 6pm Giles Foster. 8pm bridge.
21 (Mon) 10:15am CPu. 7pm Society of Authors dinner.
24 (Thur) Noon SG, Bob East. 1pm rehearsal.
26 (Sat) Lunch Ludwig Rowohlt: Connaught. 8pm KRs.
27 (Sun) 1pm OT lunch: Le Caprice.
30 (Wed) 12:45pm Giles Foster and others. 8pm SS.
31 (Thur) 9:30pm TS’s Squaring the Circle Channel 4.
June
1 (Fri) 8pm dinner DPh.
4 (Mon) Dinner SS. HP tribute to AS, read at his memorial service.
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7 (Thur) Dinner FRs.
9 (Sat) Visits parents on their wedding anniversary.
11 (Mon) 8:30pm dinner David Fromkin: Belvedere.
12 (Tue) Evening celebrates KB’s birthday.
13 (Wed) 1pm JD. Evening J. Plumb, DPh.
14 (Thur) 8pm bridge.
16 (Sat) SS.
19 (Tue) Margaret Drabble for drinks.
21 (Thur) 10:30am JD. 8pm dinner SG: Thompson’s.
22 (Fri) JL dies.
23 (Sat) 8pm Patricia Losey and others.
25 ( Mon) 1pm lunch JD. 7pm Lyric for lighting.
26 (Tue) 10:30am Lyric.
27 (Wed) Noon rehearsals.
28 (Thur) First preview.
29 (Fri) TV filming CPu and preview.
30 (Sat) Preview.
July
1 (Sun) 1pm lunch Frayns.
2 (Mon) 2pm NH, CPu review.
3 (Tue) 7pm opening night CPu, then dinner SGs: Thompson’s.
4 (Wed) 8pm bridge.
5 (Thur) 1pm lunch AKA cast. 8pm dinner CBr: Thompson’s.
6 (Fri) 3:30pm Thelma Wax. 7:30pm Dramatists Club dinner.
7 (Sat) Hove. 8pm James Duff’s The War at Home Hampstead Theatre.
9 (Mon) 12:30pm lunch Edward de Souza, actor, and Cherry Cookson,
BBC Radio Drama producer: Belvedere. 6:30pm CPu company.
8pm Was. HP in a mood of ‘savage melancholy’, and infuriated
by the negative reactions to CPu (Must: 175).
10 (Tue) 1pm lunch Patricia Losey: Belvedere. 5:30pm Sir Walter Marshall,
physicist, public servant, and Diana Quick. 8pm Society of
Authors buffet.
11 (Wed) 1pm lunch John Schlesinger. 6pm Daniel.
12 (Thur) 1pm JD.
13 (Fri) 2pm AKA television script (see BR: W45f).
16 (Mon) 1pm lunch John Schlesinger, Vanessa Redgrave: Le Caprice.
Evening Sunday in the Country Chelsea cinema.
17 (Tue) 1pm lunch MW: Thompson’s. 4:30pm HG. 5:15pm P.D. James.
8pm bridge.
18 (Wed) AKA filming. Nottingham.
19 (Thur) 1pm lunch HG. AKA filming.
20 (Fri) 5:45pm SG. 6:30pm CPu company. 8:30pm dinner: Thompson’s.
21 (Sat) 1pm DJ.

23 (Mon) 1pm lunch Tetsuo Kishi: Thompson’s. 5pm HG.
6pm MW. 8:30pm TPs.
25 (Wed) Noon Daniel. 6pm JD.
26–9 Aug (Thur–Thur) Portugal.
August
11 (Sat) Last night of CPu Lyric followed by dinner (SG, Unnatural
Pursuit: 177–81).
13 (Mon) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s.
14 (Tue) 8:30pm JI, Sinéad Cusack, Meryl Streep and others.
15 (Wed) 8pm DPh dinner.
16 (Thur) 1pm Kerry Crabbe, producer.
17 (Fri) Hove.
18 (Sat) 5:30pm Giles Foster, JD.
19 (Sun) 4pm TS.
20 (Mon) Noon participates in Peace Prisoners Vigil.
21 (Tue) 6pm CF. 8pm John Casey.
22 (Wed) 1:15pm lunch SG: Belvedere. 8pm Mamet’s American
Buffalo Duke of York’s Theatre.
23 (Thur) 6pm JD.
24 (Fri) Congreve’s The Way of the World Chichester Festival Theatre.
25–26 (Sat–Sun) Bernhurst.
27 (Mon) Celebrates AF’s birthday: Le Caprice.
28 (Tue) 1pm lunch Giles Foster: Thompson’s. 7:30pm SB’s Play:
Warehouse.
29 (Wed) 8pm FRs.
31 (Fri) Mamets.
September
1 (Sat) Evening CFs.
3 (Mon) 6pm KI. 8:30pm SS.
4 (Tue) 6pm Richard Johnson.
5 (Wed) 8pm James Saunders’ Fall Hampstead Theatre.
6 (Thur) 3pm KI, Carol Davis, composer, concerning AKA.
10 (Mon) Works on TD. Rehearsal DW BBC. 1:15pm lunch JD: Thompson’s.
11 (Tue) 5pm KI. 7:45pm Chekhov’s Wild Honey Ly.
12 (Wed) 10am TD rehearsal.
13 (Thur) 10:30am TD rehearsal, changes to film script. 8pm dinner GW.
17 (Mon) TD filming. 6pm Daniel. 8pm PR, CB, IH, Ian McEwan, Emma
Tennant.
18 (Tue) Lunch Thelma Wax: Belvedere. Garrick Club reception. 10pm
party.
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19 (Wed) TD filming. 6:30pm Twickenham ‘JL’ evening.

20 (Thur) AKA sound recording. 6pm JD.
21 (Fri) 1:30pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 4pm run-through DW as televi-
sion play (see BR: W7.4). 8:30pm dinner Stoppis: Belvedere.
22 (Sat) 5pm NH. 8pm Daniel and friend.
23 (Sun) 9:30pm watches Barry Hines’ Threads, the story of a nuclear
attack on Birmingham, BBC2.
24–8 Oct HP, AF in New York and elsewhere.
(Mon–Mon)
25 (Tue) 8pm SS.
26 (Wed) 11am Poetry Center, 92nd and Lexington.
27 (Thur) 1pm lunch MN. 6:30pm Sam Shepard. 8:30pm dinner David
Fromkin.
28 (Fri) 12:45pm lunch Robert Altman. 8pm dinner Bob Gottlieb and
Liv Ullmann.
29 (Sat) 11am SS. 8pm preview Miller’s After the Fall Broadway.
30 (Sun) Visits Connecticut sees PR, CB.
October
1 (Mon) 11am rehearsal HP’s upcoming ‘reading’. 12:30pm lunch Michael
Cristofer, dramatist, filmmaker and actor. 8pm Poetry Center. HP
enacts scenes from his plays at the YMHA. AF believes that ‘it
was this return to acting, as opposed to simply reading, which
prompted [HP] to return to the stage the next year ... till then,
he remained periodically depressed’ (Must: 177).
2 (Tue) Noon visits Penelope Prentice in Boston.
3 (Wed) New York. 8pm SS party.
4 (Thur) 12:30pm lunch Arthur Miller, Karen Kennelly, writer. 8pm sees
David Rabe’s Hurlyburly, directed by MN, Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
5 (Fri) Noon SS. 3:30pm to Washington, DC. Attends party given by
Evangeline Bruce, hostess, historian.
6 (Sat) 1pm lunch Evangeline Bruce. New York. 8pm dinner Barbara
Epstein.
7 (Sun) 1pm lunch OS.
8 (Mon) London.
9 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch JD. 6:30pm JD, DJ.
10 (Wed) HP’s birthday. 1:15pm FF. Evening dines with AF.
11 (Thur) 1pm lunch Oxford. 8:30pm DPh.
12 (Fri) 8pm bridge.
13 (Sat) 1pm lunch with FWy and others.
16 (Tue) 1pm SG. 8pm bridge Peter Jay and others.
17 (Wed) 1pm Hove. 6pm JD. 8pm CFs.
18 (Thur) 10am TD Pinewood Studios. Noon lunch: Savoy. 7:30pm Amnesty
meeting.
19–20 (Fri–Sat) Paris.

19 (Fri) 1pm lunch Robert Altman. 8pm Eric Kahane.
20 (Sat) 1pm lunch Robert Altman, then London.
22 (Mon) BAFTA lunch. 3pm Richard Johnson. 6pm JD.
23 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch JBa: Le Caprice. 8pm MC, David Sutton
(MC’s ‘personal and business partner’, Putting: xii), Frayns.
24 (Wed) 12:45pm lunch CBr. 8:30pm SS.
25 (Thur) Noon American Embassy lunch for Anthony Powell.
10:30pm French Embassy reception for François Mitterand.
26 (Fri) Oxford.
27 (Sat) Berlins. 8pm dinner DPh.
28 (Sun) 1pm lunch Robert Altman. 5pm Robert Altman, SS.
29 (Mon) 4pm Robert Altman. 6pm Robert Altman and SS. 9pm din-
ner MN.
30 (Tue) With Daniel to the Fens. 7:45pm RH’s Tramway Road Lyric
Hammersmith.
November
1 (Thur) 1pm lunch EO: Odin’s. 4pm JD. 6:30pm The Killing Fields
Rank Preview Theatre.
2 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch SS: Connaught. 6:30pm Middle Temple
International PEN reception.
3 (Sat) 7:30pm Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love Cot.
4 (Sun) 10am ED, KI. 1pm Peter Eyre and others. 4pm GG and
others. 8pm PEN dinner.
5 (Mon) Brighton.
7 (Wed) 1pm parents. London.
8 (Thur) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s.
9 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 6pm sees The Bostonians
Curzon cinema.
10 (Sat) 8:30pm MBis.
11 (Sun) 6pm JD. 8pm bridge Peter Jay.
12 (Mon) 8pm Ray Cooney’s farce Two into One Shaftesbury Theatre.
13 (Tue) 1pm lunch PW: Ritz.
14 (Wed) Noon meets JD. 1pm lunch HG: Rue St Jacques. 5:45pm
JD, Thelma Wax, Boleslaw Taborski, Polish translator.
15–16 (Thur–Fri) Cromwell Hospital.
16 (Fri) Released from hospital. 6pm JD. 8pm TPs.
17 (Sat) 1:30pm SS.
18 (Sun) 1pm JD for lunch.
19 (Mon) 1:30pm lunch Terence Baker: Le Caprice. 7:30pm Racine’s
Phèdre OV, then dinner: La Barca.
20 (Tue) 1pm lunch RSt.
21 (Wed) Glasgow.
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22 (Thur) London. 2pm TD rough cut. 8pm RHs.

23 (Fri) 8pm dinner Orlando Fraser: Belvedere.
24 (Sat) 10am Pinewood Studios, TD editing. 8pm FWy.
25 (Sun) 5:30pm Robert Altman.
26 (Mon) 10am Pinewood, TD.
28 (Wed) 1pm DJ. 4pm Rosie Kerslake, actress. 8pm JBa, JE and others.
29 (Thur) 1pm DP. 6pm JD.
30 (Fri) 8:30pm TD screening.
December
1 (Sat) 8:30pm DPh and others.
2 (Sun) Noon SG. 7pm ED, KI.
3 (Mon) 10:30am Pinewood, then to New York.
4 (Tue) 7pm New York University dinner, then Precisely first New York
production HP reading.
5 (Wed) 1pm SS. 8pm Mamets.
6 (Thur) London.
7 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG: Belvedere. 4pm rehearsal. 8pm EO.
8 (Sat) 11am GG, TA. 2:30pm CND march. 6pm NH. 8:30pm Warners.
9 (Sun) 1pm TPs, KI. 8pm Patricia Losey.
10 (Mon) 12:30pm lunch JD: Belvedere. 6pm Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier CGa.
12 (Wed) 6pm auditions. 6:30pm FRs.
13 (Thur) 1pm GV.
14 (Fri) 7pm JBa, JE. 9pm Frayns.
15 (Sat) Oxford.
16 (Sun) 10am NH. 9:45pm AKA ITV, directed by KI.
17 (Mon) 6pm JD.
18 (Tue) 1pm lunch Longfords. 3:30pm TD.
19 (Wed) 1pm lunch KI, Dorothy Tutin, Colin Blakely: Le Caprice. Dinner
Dilys Powell, critic.
20 (Thur) 11am Duncan Weldon, producer. 1pm Nicola Pagett, actress.
6:30pm MC and friends.
21 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 5pm Robert Altman.
22 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch DP: Thompson’s. 7:30pm Steinbeck’s Of Mice and
Men Mermaid Theatre.
23 (Sun) 12:30pm CBr. 6pm KI. 8pm PR, CB.
25 (Tue) 1pm SS. Patricia Losey and others.
27 (Thur) OP rehearsal. 5pm to Amsterdam.
28 (Fri) 1pm OFR performance Amsterdam.
29 (Sat) London.
30 (Sun) 1pm John Casey. 8pm EO party.
31 (Mon) 10:30am OP rehearsals begin. 3:30pm TD. 8pm Warners, Inkpen,
Berkshire.
1985
HP contributes ‘Foreword’ to SG’s An Unnatural Pursuit, in New York (BR: H7).
January
1 (Tue) At Inkpen.
2 (Wed) London. 3:15pm Duncan Weldon, producer.
3 (Thur) 6pm DJ. 8pm Robert Neild (economist), Margaret Jay.
4 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch JD. 6pm Maurice Denham. 8pm bridge Warners.
5 (Sat) 6pm RSt: Connaught. 8pm Edward Bond’s The Pope’s Wedding
RC.
6 (Sun) 1pm FRs.
7 (Mon) 1pm lunch LM: Thompson’s. 7:15pm Coriolanus Ol.
8 (Tue) Tenth anniversary initial meeting HP, AF (Must: 176). 1pm Thelma
Wax. 8pm MBis.
9 (Wed) 1pm SS. 8pm CFs.
10 (Thur) 12:30pm TD music, with John Irvin, the director. 7:30pm CBr.
11 (Fri) 5pm John Irvin. 8pm Andrew Graham-Yooll.
12 (Sat) 1pm John Casey.
13 (Sun) 2:30pm rehearsal OP. 8pm Nicaragua evening.
14 (Mon) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s. 6pm NH.
15 (Tue) Noon BAFTA Awards: Garrick. 8pm bridge Peter Jay.
16 (Wed) 4–7pm DJ. 8pm Bond’s Saved RC.
17 (Thur) 3pm Duncan Weldon. 8pm bridge.
18 (Fri) 8pm DPh.
19 (Sat) 10am OP run-through. 7:30pm Ga dinner.
21 (Mon) OP rehearsal, Brighton.
22 (Tue) 11:30am DJ and lunch: Thompson’s.
23 (Wed) 10:30am OP run-through.
24 (Thur) 1pm JD.
25 (Fri) Brighton. 7:30pm Harley Granville-Barker’s Waste The Pit.
26 (Sat) Brighton, dress rehearsal OP Theatre Royal.
27 (Sun) 10am meets parents Brighton. 1pm FWy, FF.
28 (Mon) 7:30pm OP opens Theatre Royal, Brighton.
29 (Tue) OP.
30 (Wed) 2pm Duchess Theatre, London. 5pm Daniel (his birthday). 8pm
KB, PR, CB.
31 (Thur) 1pm John Irvin, Pinewood. 3:30pm TD.
February
1 (Fri) 1pm lunch KI. 3pm HG.
2 (Sat) 6pm NH.
3 (Sun) 11am Daniel. 1pm JD.
4 (Mon) OP opens Bath. OT rehearsals. To New York.
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5 (Tue) 11am interview regarding Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of

Youth (SBY). 1pm lunch EK.
6 (Wed) 1pm Lauren Bacall. 5pm SS.
7–9 (Thur–Sat) Auditions.
7 (Thur) 7:30pm Arthur Miller, K. Kennerly.
8 (Fri) 8pm dinner SS.
10 (Sun) London.
11 (Mon) OP opens Croydon. 1pm OT.
12 (Tue) 11:30am SBY meeting. 1:15pm lunch SG. 5:30pm OT
meeting.
13 (Wed) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s. 4:30pm Richard Johnson,
Peter Snell (producer TD). 7pm PEN meeting.
14 (Thur) 11:30am Maria Ewing. 1:15pm lunch CM: Le Caprice.
7:45pm OP.
15 (Fri) 1pm lunch HG. 3pm OT.
16 (Sat) Noon Joanne Whalley, actress. 3:30pm auditions Albery
Theatre. 6pm ED. 8pm Was.
17 (Sun) 6pm TA, GG.
18 (Mon) OP opens Belfast. 6:20pm The Shooting Party Curzon cin-
ema. 8pm dinner: Le Caprice.
19 (Tue) 1pm lunch CM: Flounders. 6:30pm drinks Evangeline Bruce.
8pm dinner GW.
21 (Thur) 3pm OT.
22 (Fri) 11:30am OT. Marion Bailey, actress. 8pm Liv Ullmann, DP
and others.
23 (Sat) 8pm Graham Swannell’s A State of Affairs Lyric Studio,
Hammersmith.
25 (Mon) 1pm lunch JD: Le Français. 3pm OT. 7pm dinner Patricia
Losey: English Garden.
26 (Tue) 12:15pm CND demonstration, Scotland Yard. 6pm OT.
7:45pm Ibsen’s Little Eyolf Lyric Hammersmith. FP’s birthday.
27 (Wed) 1pm parents.
28 (Thur) 1pm lunch Wa: Ritz. 3:30pm ED. 8pm Berlins.
March
1 (Fri) 1pm lunch William Cooper, American political activist: Le
Français. 3pm OT.
2 (Sat) Lunch TPs. 2:30pm dress rehearsal OP. 6pm Daniel. 8pm CFs.
3 (Sun) 8pm Was.
4 (Mon) 4pm OT. 7:30pm first review OP. 11pm dinner KI: Flounders.
5 (Tue) Lunch AF: Belvedere. 6pm JD.
6 (Wed) 1pm lunch Lauren Bacall: Le Français. 2:45pm OT run.
7 (Thur) AKA in triple bill with OFR, Victoria Station, Duchess Theatre,
directed by KI.
8 (Fri) 1pm lunch Eric Kahane, JD, Thelma Wax and others:
Belvedere. 4:30pm Lauren Bacall. 8pm KRs.
9 (Sat) 6pm ED.
10 (Sun) 6pm Daniel. 8:30pm Natasha Fraser birthday dinner.
11 (Mon) 10am auditions Haymarket Theatre. 1pm lunch JD:
Le Caprice. OT dress rehearsal Guildford.
12 (Tue) Noon KI. 7:45pm OT opening, company dinner.
13 (Wed) 2pm OT rehearsal. 7:45pm OT.
14 (Thur) 11am OT. 6pm NH. 8pm MBis.
16 (Sat) 6pm Arthur Miller. 8pm Arthur Miller, PR, CB.
17–22 (Sun–Fri) Istanbul with Arthur Miller representing IP. American
ambassador throws HP out of the American Embassy
for remarks on torture. Miller leaves with HP, who
begins Mountain Language (MoL).
17 (Sun) ‘Players: [HP’s] recollection about two great play-
ers from the world of theatre and cricket Andrew
McMaster and Arthur Wellard. With Edward de
Souza. Narrated by HP’ (BBC Radio 3. Times, 16
March 1985: 33; see BR: W20: 3).
22 (Fri) London.
23 (Sat) One of six speakers, PEN Writers’ Day, others include
Arthur Miller.
24 (Sun) 11:30am Miller, NH, CBr. 1pm lunch Arthur and
Inge Miller. 8pm bridge.
25 (Mon) OT opens Bath. 12:45pm lunch JD: L’Epicure.
3–5:30pm SBY auditions, Haymarket Theatre.
26 (Tue) 11am Michael Redgrave funeral, Mortlake.
27 (Wed) 6:30pm PW. 8:30pm SS.
28 (Thur) Amnesty meeting. 3pm MBis.
29 (Fri) HJP birthday. 1pm meets parents, then KRs.
30 (Sat) 1pm lunch PR: Thompson’s.
31–9 April (Sun–Tue) Venice.
April
9 (Tue) 9:15am leaves Venice. 11am returns to London.
10–12 (Wed–Fri) Auditions, rehearsal SBY.
10 (Wed) 1pm JD
12 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
13 (Sun) 10:30am rehearsal. 6pm SBY production meeting.
14 (Mon) 8pm bridge.
15 (Mon) Morning full company SBY. OT previews.
16–19 (Tue–Fri) Rehearsals and previews, OT.
17 (Wed) OT cast dinner: Le Caprice.
18 (Thur) 8pm RHs, MBis and others.
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20 (Sat) With Daniel to Fen country. 8pm Was.
21 (Sun) 6pm Daniel.
22–24 (Mon–Wed) OT rehearsals.
22 (Mon) 6:30pm JD.
24 (Wed) 7pm OT revival Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by DJ.
25 (Thur) 1pm rehearsal.
26 (Fri) 8pm dinner Angus Wilson, Tony Garrett.
27 (Sat) 8pm dinner DJ: Thompson’s.
28 (Sun) Opening Ga season.
29–30 (Mon–Tue) 11am rehearsals.
May
1 (Wed) 11am rehearsal. 9:30pm Eric Kahane, Roger Planchon,
French dramatist, director, filmmaker.
2 (Thur) Filming.
3 (Fri) 9am edit. 2:30pm first run.
4 (Sat) Rehearsal.
5 (Sun) 1pm FWy.
6–9 (Mon–Thur) SBY rehearsals.
6 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
7 (Tue) 8pm dinner J.H. Plumb.
8 (Wed) 12:45pm lunch JBa.
9 (Thur) 1pm lunch Lauren Bacall: Au Jardin. 8pm dinner MBis.
10 (Fri) 1pm JD. 2:30pm film review. 8pm dinner DPh.
11 (Sat) 11am rehearsal. 8pm KRs.
12–22 (Sun–Wed) In Bath for SBY.
23 (Thur) 1pm JD. 8pm Warners.
24 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG: Au Bois. 8pm KB.
25 (Sat) Noon Daniel.
26 (Sun) 6pm DJ.
27–28 (Mon–Tue) In Plymouth for SBY.
29 (Wed) 11am JD. Noon DJ. 4pm NH. 7pm TD Columbia cin-
ema. 9pm TPs party.
31 (Fri) 10am Francis Bacon art viewing. 8pm KRs.
June
2 (Sun) Cricket Roehampton.
3–4 (Mon–Tue) In Brighton for SBY.
3 (Mon) 1pm lunch parents.
5 (Wed) 1pm lunch HG: Le Caprice. Evening launching party for
publication of AF’s novel, Oxford Blood.
6 (Thur) 1pm lunch HG: Le Caprice. 8pm DPh dinner for AF.
7 (Fri) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s. 8:30pm SS.
8 (Sat) 6pm Michael Attenborough, theatre director.

9 (Sun) Cricket Oxted.
10 (Mon) SBY playing in Manchester.
12 (Wed) 1pm lunch SG: L’Epicure. 8pm GW party.
13 (Thur) Pinewood Studios TD. Dinner RHs and Robert Gottlieb:
Thompson’s.
15 (Sat) 1pm TPs. 8pm KRs.
16 (Sun) 1pm GW. 8pm Was.
17 (Mon) SBY playing in Brighton. 1pm parents.
18 (Tue) 1pm JD. To Bury St Edmunds to meet AF.
19 (Wed) OFR production for BBC2. To King’s Lynn.
20 (Thur) Sees SBY in Birmingham.
21 (Fri) Sees OP.
22 (Sat) Last night OT and OP.
24 (Mon) 10am HG then lunch HG.
25 (Tue) Dinner Lauren Bacall, MC: Le Caprice.
26 (Wed) First London preview SBY Haymarket Theatre.
27 (Thur) 1:15pm lunch JD. 3pm meets SBY company.
27–28 (Thur–Fri) Previews SBY.
29 (Sat) Working on SBY.
30 (Sun) 2pm Ga Barclays Bank. HP concerned with finances,
unable to sleep and believes he has an ulcer (Must: 177).
July
Film TD released, directed by John Irvin, HP as ‘Man in Bookshop’.
1 (Mon) 11:30am OFR run-through at BBC. 3:30pm HG. 6pm SBY.

2 (Tue) 1pm lunch SG.
3 (Wed) Preview SBY.
4 (Thur)11am recording at BBC, OFR. 3pm SBY, rehearsal and preview.
5 (Fri) 11am rewriting at BBC. 6pm SBY. 7:30–10pm OFR.
6 (Sat) 2:30pm KI for editing OFR.
8 (Mon) Cast preview SBY.
9 (Tue) 3pm company call. 7pm first night SBY (see Must: 178). First-
night party.
10 (Wed) 1:30pm lunch SG: Thompson’s. 3:30pm OFR, meets KI. Evening
OFR.
11 (Thur) 1pm Patricia Losey. 8pm Brendels.
12 (Fri) 1pm PW.
14 (Sun) 6pm Mel Gussow. 8pm GW.
15 (Mon) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s. 3:30pm OFR at BBC. 7:45pm Louis
Kentner Chopin concert RFH.
17 (Wed) 1pm lunch KI: Thompson’s. 6pm CB.
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18 (Thur) 6:30pm Frances de la Tour, actress. 8pm Was.

19 (Fri) Hove. 6pm NH.
22 (Mon) DW at BBC. OFR BAFTA.
23 (Tue) 1pm HG. 7:30pm SBY. DW televised, BBC2, directed
by KI.
24 (Wed) 1pm directing notes SBY. 6pm on The World Tonight
(BBC Radio 4). 8pm FRs.
25–8 Aug (Thur–Thur) Portugal.
25 (Thur) OFR BBC2, directed by KI.
August
8 (Thur) London.
9 (Fri) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s.
10 (Sat) Ivan Kyncl, theatrical photographer, wedding. 8pm KRs.
12 (Mon) 11am Daniel. 1:30pm lunch Lauren Bacall and others: Le Caprice.
13 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch Sydney Newman, producer: Le Caprice. 3pm
rehearsal.
14 (Wed) 5pm DJ. 8:30pm The Lover King’s Head Theatre, Islington.
15 (Thur) BBC Turkish Service interview. 12:30pm lunch IH and others:
L’Epicure. 7pm bridge CF, SG and others.
16 (Fri) Hove. 8:45pm A NFT.
17 (Sat) 11:30am Mustapha Gursel, casting director.
18 (Sun) SBY party.
19 (Mon) 12:30pm lunch John Russell Taylor: Belvedere. 7:45pm Webster’s
Duchess of Malfi Ly.
20 (Tue) 4pm auditions Haymarket. 7:30pm Nicholas Wright’s The Desert
Air RSC’s The Pit.
21 (Wed) 8:30pm dinner DPh, KB: Odin’s.
22 (Thur) 1pm JD. 3pm HG. 8pm KB.
23 (Fri) 11:30am cricket match, SBY cast v Guys and Dolls cast playing at
the Prince of Wales Theatre. Evening to Inkpen.
24 (Sat) Warners at Inkpen.
27 (Tue) 1pm AF’s birthday lunch, John Schlesinger. 9pm AF birthday
dinner: Le Caprice.
28 (Wed) 7pm Ga AGM.
29 (Thur) 1pm EO. 5pm auditions.
30 (Fri) 1pm PW and others, then to Bernhurst.
31 (Sat) 4pm Hove.
September
2 (Mon) 8pm dinner Carl Bernstein: Chez Moi.
3 (Tue) 1pm SG: Au Jardin. 4:30pm Derek Hoxby, American actor.
4 (Wed) With Daniel the Fens. 8pm CFs.
5 (Thur) 10:30am DJ. 8pm dinner SGs: White Tower.

6 (Fri) 10am JD. 1pm PA. 7:30pm Alfred Brendel Promenade
concert.
7 (Sat) 1pm Simon Rouse, actor. 8pm Wallace Shawn’s Aunt
Dan and Lemon RC.
8 (Sun) 10am HG, then Ga Metropolitan Police.
9 (Mon) 5pm actors at HP’s office, 8 Aubrey Road.
10 (Tue) 1pm lunch Richard Lester: Belvedere. 8:30pm SS.
11 (Wed) 1pm JD. 9pm Co Channel 4.
12 (Thur) 1:30pm lunch HG: Odin’s.
13 (Fri) Lunch CBr. 8:30pm KI and others.
14 (Sat) 8:30pm A Night Out NFT, then dinner Patricia Losey,
Sydney Newman: Le Caprice.
15 (Sun) 9:30pm Daniel.
16 (Mon) 9:30am rehearsal. 7:30pm Gigi Lyric Hammersmith.
11pm Lauren Bacall, SS.
17 (Tue) 10:30am HG. 2:30pm rehearsal.
18 (Wed) 6pm meets John Fowles, Tom Maschler, Richard
Lester at Jonathan Cape, the publishers. 9:30pm NM
Channel 4.
19 (Thur) 1pm lunch Lauren Bacall: Ritz.
20 (Fri) 11am rehearsal.
21 (Sat) 8:30pm dinner RHs: Chez Moi.
22 (Sun) Final Ga game of the season (Sidcup).
23 (Mon) 12:45pm lunch JD: L’Epicure. 2:30pm rehearsal.
6:15pm HG. 8pm Was.
24 (Tue) 1:30pm rehearsal.
25 (Wed) 1pm ICA with Benedict Nightingale.
26 (Thur) 10am interview with John Tusa for Saturday Review,
BBC, broadcast 28 September (BR: K26). 1:30pm run-
through SBY.
27–28 (Fri–Sat) SBY.
29 (Sun) 6pm The Official Version Curzon West End cinema.
30–4 Oct (Mon–Fri) OT rehearsals (Must: 178–9).
October
2 (Wed) 6:30pm Richard Lester, Twickenham.
3 (Thur) ‘A Play and its Politics: A Conversation between [HP and
NH]’. On OFR (Methuen): 7–23 (BR: A45b).
4 (Fri) 5pm singing lessons. 8pm Frayns.
5 (Sat) 5pm JD. 7:45pm Mitsuko Uchida piano recital.
6 (Sun) Hove.
7–13 (Mon–Sun) Rehearsals.
9 (Wed) 9:30pm HG. 10pm dinner Paul Channon.
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10 (Thur) Noon KI. 9pm HP’s 55th birthday party celebration: Le Caprice.
11 (Fri) 11pm Lauren Bacall.
12 (Sat) 5:15pm SBY company call. 8:30pm dinner SG: Au Jardin.
13 (Sun) 8pm Angus Wilson, Tony Garrett, Was and others.
14 (Mon) 8pm KR, Peter Jay.
15 (Tue) 1pm JD. 5:30pm HG. 8pm RH, KB.
16 (Wed) With AF to St Louis.
17 (Thur) OT rehearsal.
18 (Fri) 6pm dress rehearsal.
19 (Sat) Takes over role of Deeley in DJ’s OT production for American
tour to St Louis and Los Angeles, replacing MGa.
20–23 OT.
(Sun–Wed)
24 (Thur) 11am interview with Los Angeles Times.
25 (Fri) HP, AF visit Tennessee Williams’ grave in the St Louis area.
Reveals to AF idea that becomes Party Time (PaT).
26 (Sat) 2pm matinee. Meets JD, Thelma Wax.
27 (Sun) Staying at the Bel-Air Hotel, Los Angeles. 6pm Natasha Fraser.
29 (Tue) 8:30am Donald Freed and his wife.
30 (Wed) First-night party at the Polo Lounge. A waiter mistakes HP for
Claudette Colbert!
31 (Thur) HP, AF visit Hollywood and meet stars. Subsequently OT tour
curtailed owing to the illness of a cast member (Must: 180–2).
November
1 (Fri) 11:30am Elliot Martin, Broadway producer. 1pm JB. 8pm
OT.
2–3 (Sat–Sun) OT.
4 (Mon) 7:30pm Liv Ullmann.
5 (Tue) 8pm OT.
7 (Thur) 1:15pm Donald Freed.
8 (Fri) 1:15pm Penelope Prentice.
9 (Sat) Matinee. 10pm meets Leslie Bogart, Humphrey Bogart’s
daughter, Lauren Bacall.
10 (Sun) Matinee. 10pm Tony Richardson.
11 (Mon) 8:30am Freeds.
13 (Wed) 10pm DJ.
14 (Thur) Lunch Natasha Fraser and others.
16–17 (Sat–Sun) 2pm matinees.
18 (Mon) 1pm OT company picnic. 7pm Faye Dunaway: HP plans
to direct in London in Donald Freed’s Circle and Bravo
(CaB) (Must: 183).
19 (Tue) 10pm Tony Richardson.
20 (Wed) 1pm lunch Clive Donner: El Padrino.
21 (Thur) 10:30am Donald Freed. 1pm Faye Dunaway, Donald Freed.

7:30pm Scott Berg, biographer. 10pm John Schlesinger.
22 (Fri) 10pm OT company supper.
23 (Sat) Elliot Martin and others. 2pm matinee.
24 (Sun) Final Los Angeles performance.
25 (Mon) To San Francisco.
26 (Tue) 7pm dinner party Jean-Claude Carrière, French actor, director,
writer, and others.
27 (Wed) HP, AF fifth wedding anniversary: to London.
28 (Thur) London.
29 (Fri) 1pm JD. 6pm SG. 8:30pm SS.
30 (Sat) 1pm Hove. 8pm sees RH’s Interlopers Queen’s Theatre.
December
1 (Sun) 8pm MBis.
2 (Mon) 1pm lunch KI: Belvedere. 8pm TD Curzon West End cinema.
4 (Wed) 1pm HG. 8pm Lauren Bacall.
5 (Thur) 8pm dinner at MBis’.
6 (Fri) 1pm CBr.
7 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
8 (Sun) 5pm Daniel.
9 (Mon) 6pm PW.
10 (Tue) 12:30pm JBa. 8pm Guy Hibbert’s On the Edge Hampstead
Theatre.
12 (Thur) 1pm lunch Thelma Wax: Belvedere.
13 (Fri) 1pm lunch KR.
15 (Sun) 1pm SS.
16 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch SG: Belvedere. 8pm CFs.
17 (Tue) 1pm lunch RHs: Wilton’s. 8pm KRs.
18 (Wed) Lunch JD.
20 (Fri) Lunch Fred Warner.
21 (Sat) Hove. 6pm TA, GG.
22 (Sun) 1pm lunch TPs. 8:30pm family dinner: Le Caprice.
24–27 (Tue–Fri) At Oare with Mary Keswick and Tessa Keswick.
30 (Mon) 1pm lunch HG. 8pm JD, Roland Joffé, Anglo-French film
director.
31 (Tue) 8pm KRs. SS dies.
1986
January
1 (Wed) 7:30pm Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard Cot.
2 (Thur) 6:30pm Michael Attenborough, director.
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3 (Fri) 8pm CB, PR, Stephen and Natasha Spender, Carlos

Fuentes.
4 (Sat) 10:30am KR. 6pm ED. 8pm dinner EO, JI and Sinéad
Cusack, RB.
5 (Sun) 6pm sees film Defence of the Realm.
7 (Tue) 6pm Arnold Wesker. 9:15pm KRs.
8 (Wed) 8pm celebrates 11th anniversary with AF: Ritz.
9 (Thur) W.S. Graham dies.
10 (Fri) To Penzance with TA and GG, sees Nessie Graham.
Letter ‘Blind Eye on Turkey’ (Guardian, 6; BR: F10A).
11 (Sat) London.
12–13 (Sun–Mon) Flu.
14 (Tue) 8pm Warners.
16 (Thur) 1pm JD.
17 (Fri) Stuttgart.
18 (Sat) German premiere OFR.
20 (Mon) Meets GW concerning memorial for SS.
23 (Thur) 1pm EO. 8pm KRs.
25 (Sat) 8pm RHs, FRs and others.
27 (Mon) 8pm Wa.
28 (Tue) 1:15pm KI: La Loggia.
29 (Wed) 1:30pm PR: Thompson’s.
30 (Thur) 8pm GV.
31 (Fri) 7:45pm Orton play, at the Young Vic.
February
1 (Sat) 1pm Francis King. 7pm Ga party.
2 (Sun) 11am TA, GG. 8pm KB, CB and others.
3 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
4 (Tue) 1:15pm IH lunch. 8pm Middleton’s Women Beware Women RC.
7 (Fri) 4:30pm Gary Oldman, actor. 6pm JD. 8pm MBis.
8 (Sat) 8pm JBa, JE.
9 (Sun) 11am TA, GG. 7:30pm Ga AGM.
10 (Mon) 1pm PA: Belvedere. 8pm KB, CFs.
11 (Tue) Noon Thelma Wax. 8:30pm dinner KI: L’Epicure.
12 (Wed) 8pm dinner Hugh Thomas.
13 (Thur) 1pm JD. 8pm Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross Mermaid Theatre.
14 (Fri) Noon Philip Larkin’s Memorial Service Westminster Abbey.
7:45pm DPh.
17 (Mon) 12:15pm Russian dissidents roll-call NT. 6pm CBr, NH.
18 (Tue) 10:30am KI. 8pm MBi and others.
19 (Wed) 11am demonstration at the Turkish Embassy. 12:20pm on BBC
News. 6:30pm ED.
20 (Thur) 1pm Daniel.
21 (Fri) 8pm KRs.

22 (Sat) 1pm Barbara Epstein. 2:30pm HG. 8:30pm DPh birthday dinner.
23 (Sun) 3:15pm Alfred Brendel concert.
24 (Mon) 10:30am rehearsal BP revival.
25 (Tue) Rehearsals.
26 (Wed) Organizes memorial service for SS (at 11:30am) and gives speech
at West London Synagogue, 33 Seymour Place. 6pm Blake
Morrison and other writers visit HP, AF.
27–28 Rehearsals.
(Thur–Fri)
28 (Fri) 6pm JD.
March
1 (Sat) 8:30pm revival of J.B. Priestley’s When We are Married
Whitehall Theatre.
3 (Mon) 2pm rehearsal. 7:30pm participates in Larkin reading at
the Riverside.
8 (Sat) Hove.
9 (Sun) 10:30am HG.
10 (Mon) 8pm Was.
11–13 (Tue–Thur) Rehearsals.
13 (Thur) 6pm dinner JD: Groucho restaurant.
15 (Sat) 1pm lunch Faye Dunaway: Walton’s. 8pm dinner David
Aukin, CM, the Bakewells.
16 (Sun) 8pm bridge Was.
17 (Mon) 10:30am RH. 8pm EO dinner for LOs.
18 (Tue) 8pm GW dinner.
20 (Thur) 8:30pm Seavers.
21 (Fri) 5pm HG.
23 (Sun) 1pm TPs. 3:30pm ED.
24 (Mon) 10:30am rehearsal. 6pm JD. 8pm KRs.
29 (Sat) 1pm Hove for HJP’s birthday. 8pm CFs.
30 (Sun) 8pm RHs.
31 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
April
1 (Tue) Daniel moves to East Anglian cottage.
3 (Thur) 4pm Faye Dunaway. Completes MoL.
4 (Fri) 1pm JD. 8pm CB, PR, Brendels.
5 (Sat) 12:30pm HG. 8pm bridge.
6 (Sun) Orient Express to Venice.
7–13 (Mon–Sun) Venice. Returns by aeroplane.
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14 (Mon) Cambridge, meets Daniel.

15 (Tue) 1pm JD. 6pm NH. 10:30pm dinner: Le Caprice.
16 (Wed) 12:30pm Faye Dunaway, Stephen Jenn, actor.
17 (Thur) 8:30pm DPh.
18 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch SG: Groucho.
19 (Sat) 1pm Robert B. Silvers, New York Review of Books. 8pm
Weskers, Osborne.
20 (Sun) 10am ED. 4pm Donald Freed. 4:30pm Faye Dunaway,
Stephen Jenn. 8pm Donald Freed, Faye Dunaway, Stephen
Jenn.
21 (Mon) CaB full company call.
22 (Tue) 7pm Vivian Grisogono, physiotherapist.
24 (Thur) 8pm dinner Longford. 10:30pm Spanish monarch recep-
tion.
30 (Wed) 1pm KR.
May
2 (Fri) 8pm dinner Donald Freed: Odin’s.
4 (Sun) 1pm lunch DPh and others: Le Caprice. 7pm KRs.
6 (Tue) 8pm Marilyn Horne recital CGa.
7 (Wed) 1pm KR. 7:30pm PEN.
8 (Thur) 8pm Nicaraguan ambassador dinner for HP, AF.
10 (Sat) Hosts party for Freeds.
12–17 (Mon–Sat) Rehearsals.
12 (Mon) 8:30pm film of Virginia Woolf’s A Room with a View.
14 (Wed) 9pm SGs.
15 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
16 (Fri) 1pm lunch Donald Freed and others. 8pm dinner FF.
17 (Sat) 2:30pm KR.
20 (Tue) 8pm MBis.
21 (Wed) 1pm lunch JD: Holiday Inn.
22–23 (Thur–Fri) Run CaB.
24 (Sat) Rehearsal CaB. 8pm KRs.
25 (Sun) 5pm CaB sound session. 8pm bridge CF and others.
26 (Mon) 7pm lighting.
27 (Tue) Technical staging details.
28–31 (Wed–Sat) Dress rehearsals CaB Hampstead Theatre
28 (Wed) 1pm Donald Freed.
29 (Thur) 1pm JD.
31 (Sat) Dinner Donald Freed: L’Epicure.
June
Directs Donald Freed’s Circe and Bravo Hampstead Theatre, then Wyndham’s
Theatre.
2–5 (Mon–Thur) CaB previews.
6 (Fri) Evening attends performance with SGs.
7 (Sat) Lord’s, England v India. 8pm bridge KR and others.
8 (Sun) Ga Oxted. 8pm Freeds.
9 (Mon) Noon parents’ 60th wedding anniversary lunch. 7pm
theatre.
10 (Tue) Dinner: Savoy.
11 (Wed) 1pm HG. 6pm JD. 8pm John and Teresa Wells.
12 (Thur) 8pm Balliol College, Oxford with RH.
13 (Fri) The Bear, Oxford.
14 (Sat) 1pm lunch Berlins.
18 (Wed) Noon Giles Cooper Awards BBC.
20 (Fri) 11am BAFTA BP screening. 8pm KRs. HP, AF participate in
regular meetings of like-minded left-wing liberals: known
as the ‘June 20 Society’ (continued till 1992).
24 (Tue) Birmingham, sees Verdi’s Otello.
25 (Wed) 9pm Was.
26 (Thur) 1pm lunch JBa: Belvedere. 5:45pm DJ.
27 (Fri) 1pm lunch RH: Hilaire.
29 (Sun) 11pm attends family stone setting at Waltham Abbey
Cemetery.
30 (Mon) 6pm Michael Blakemore. 8:30pm Margaret Atwood, KR and
others.
Summer
‘Partners’, in Only Poetry, vol. 8: [iv] (BR: C24).
July
2 (Wed) 1pm Hove. 6pm JD.
3 (Thur) 10:30am KR. 8pm Osborne’s The Entertainer Shaftesbury Theatre.
4 (Fri) 1pm lunch SG.
5 (Sat) 1pm lunch Alun Owen, screenwriter: Thompson’s. 8pm sees
Cats Lyric Theatre.
7 (Mon) 1pm lunch EO.
10 (Thur) To Hull.
11 (Fri) Honorary degree University of Hull.
12 (Sat) London: final performance CaB Hampstead Theatre.
14 (Mon) 1pm HG.
15 (Tue) 1pm Wyndham’s Theatre to see set-up for CaB.
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16 (Wed) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s. 8pm bridge.

17 (Thur) 9:45am delegation to the US Embassy concerning Nicaragua.
2:30pm rehearsal CaB. 8pm Freeds.
18 (Fri) 11am rehearsal. 1pm lunch Faye Dunaway, Donald Freed.
19 (Sat) 11:30am rehearsal, then to Inkpen.
20 (Sun) Ga Cranleigh.
August
12 (Tue) London.
14 (Thur) 1pm lunch Daniel: Thompson’s. 8pm KRs.
15 (Fri) 8pm sees Frank McGuinness’ Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching
Towards the Somme Hampstead Theatre.
19 (Tue) 1pm JD. 8pm KRs.
20 (Wed) 10am KR. 1:15pm lunch KI: Belvedere. 8pm DPh.
21 (Thur) 1pm Hove. 4:30pm HG.
22 (Fri) 1pm lunch DPh: The Barns, then to Stratford-upon-Avon.
23 (Sat) Sees JI as Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Stratford-upon-Avon.
24 (Sun) Stratford-upon-Avon, poetry reading.
26 (Tue) London.
27 (Wed) AF’s birthday.
29 (Fri) 12:30pm at Chilean Consulate then Bernhurst.
September
1 (Mon) 11am KR.
2 (Tue) 1pm lunch Faye Dunaway: Ritz. 8pm GV.
3 (Wed) 10:30am KR. 1:15pm SG: Odin’s.
4 (Thur) Noon KR. 8pm GW party for Elizabeth Longford.
5 (Fri) 6pm TA and others: Groucho, then to CaB.
6 (Sat) 10am KR.
7 (Sun) Ga Metropolitan Police.
8 (Mon) 1pm PA: Belvedere. 8pm KRs.
9 (Tue) 10am KR. 1:15pm MG and son: Odin’s. 8pm Osbornes.
10 (Wed) 6pm Jill Johnson, actress. 8pm AAy’s Woman in Mind
Vaudeville Theatre.
11 (Thur) 10am MG. 12:30pm walk for Chile. 6pm film of RB’s The
Mission, directed by Roland Joffé, with Robert De Niro and JI,
Fox Theatre. AF, HP march to remember 13th anniversary of
Chilean anti-Allende coup (Must: 153).
12 (Fri) 1pm JD. 6pm screening BP BAFTA, then dinner KRs:
L’Epicure.
13 (Sat) 6pm KB.
14 (Sun) 8pm bridge MBis.
15–18 In Lister Hospital, Chelsea.
(Mon–Thur)
21 (Sun) Dinner FF: Al Gallo.

23 (Tue) 7pm meets Russian Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky.
24 (Wed) 10am tennis. 1pm KR. 7:30pm David Hare’s The Bay at Nice and
Wrecked Eggs Cot.
25 (Thur) 1pm lunch HG. 5pm NH, Simon Trussler, theatre critic. 8pm
bridge KR and others.
26 (Fri) Noon T.S. Eliot plaque inauguration 3 Kensington Court Gardens.
3pm KR.
27 (Sat) 11:30am KR.
28 (Sun) 11am Aaron Asher, book editor.
29 (Mon) 1pm lunch FF: Le Caprice.
30 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
October
1 (Wed) Works on screenplay The Handmaid’s Tale (HT). 10:30pm RC
party.
2 (Thur) 6:30pm JD. 8pm dinner DPh.
3 (Fri) 11am KR. 8:30pm dinner for cinematographer Jacques Lang.
4 (Sat) Hove. Last night CaB.
5 (Sun) 10am KR. 1pm John Casey.
6 (Mon) Noon KR.
7 (Tue) Noon KR. 8pm DPh.
8 (Wed) Drafting HT. 10pm RH’s TV movie The Deliberate Death of a
Polish Priest, directed by KB.
9 (Thur) 8pm bridge.
10 (Fri) 8pm MBis, RHs.
11 (Sat) 1pm Eric Kahane and others. 8pm KRs.
12 (Sun) 8pm dinner GW.
14 (Tue) 5:15pm meets Hugh Jenkins, politician, House of Lords. 7:30pm
sees Miller’s The American Clock Cot.
15 (Wed) 8pm dinner Mortimers: Thompson’s.
17 (Fri) HT first draft with revisions.
18 (Sat) MoL at NT.
19 (Sun) 1pm lunch Max Stafford-Clark, theatre director.
20 (Mon) 12:30pm KR.
21 (Tue) Noon KR. 4pm Margaret Atwood. 8pm party for Atwood.
22 (Wed) Noon KR. 5:30pm JD. 6:30pm Franz Schufranek, founder
Vienna’s English Theatre, JD, KB.
23 (Thur) 10am Inge Miller. 1pm lunch PR: Thompson’s.
24 (Fri) 11am KR. 8pm Bush House, BBC overseas broadcasts request
programme.
25 (Sat) 8pm PR, CB.
27 (Mon) 1pm KR.
28 (Tue) 1pm lunch HG: White Tower. 8pm GW party.
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29 (Wed) 11am KR. 3pm A.G. Macdonell’s, England, Their England, BBC1.
6pm party for Methuen publication of 100 Poems by 100 Poets (BR:
H8a). 8pm Nessie Graham, George Barker and others.
30 (Thur) 10am Daniel. Noon KR.
31 (Fri) 11am KR.
November
1 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
2 (Sun) 8pm Longfords.
4 (Tue) Hove.
6 (Thur) 11:30am KR. 7:30pm Miller’s The Archbishop’s Ceiling The Pit.
7 (Fri) 5:30pm KB. 8pm dinner DPh.
8 (Sat) 8pm dinner CFs.
9 (Sun) 1pm John and Teresa Heinz, philanthropists. 8pm MBis.
11 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
12 (Wed) 6pm HG. 8pm DPh and others.
13 (Thur) 1:15pm JD. 4pm KB.
14 (Fri) 3pm AB. 5:45pm sees first part of Shoah film.
15 (Sat) 11:30am A. den Doolaard, Dutch writer. 2pm PEN. 6pm tennis.
16 (Sun) 11:30am PEN. 2pm rehearsal OFR. 7:30pm Imprisoned Writers’
Evening PEN with RHs.
17 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch SG: Groucho. HT second draft with revisions.
18 (Tue) 8pm dinner for Alfred Brendel.
20 (Thur) 8pm RHs.
21 (Fri) 7:30pm Bob Gottlieb, DPh.
22 (Sat) 5pm tennis RH.
24 (Mon) 1pm KR. 8pm bridge RH, FWy and others.
25 (Tue) Noon KR.
26 (Wed) Noon KR. 8pm KRs.
27 (Thur) 8:30pm celebrates wedding anniversary: Boulestin restaurant.
29 (Sat) 3pm KR.
30 (Sun) 11am KR.
December
1 (Mon) 12:45pm HG. 3pm KR. 7:30pm Ibsen’s Ghosts Wyndham’s Theatre.
2 (Tue) 8pm bridge.
4 (Thur) 8pm Brendels and others.
5 (Fri) 6pm Ga Windsor Castle pub.
6 (Sat) 1pm Nicaraguan demonstration Barbican. 8pm bridge.
7 (Sun) 7:30pm Ga meeting.
9 (Tue) Hove.
10 (Wed) 8pm Brendels.
11 (Thur) 1pm BBC Governors’ lunch TV Centre. 7pm Kubrick’s 2001 NFT.
12 (Fri) HT third draft with revisions.

13 (Sat) Ga meeting.
15 (Mon) 1pm HG.
17 (Wed) 12:30pm KR.
18 (Thur) 3pm KR.
19 (Fri) 8pm preview SG’s After Pilkington.
20 (Sat) 8pm MBis.
21 (Sun) 5pm discusses on phone film scenario (Ru) with director Jerry
Schatzberg ( JS).
22 (Mon) 11:30am KR, Daniel Wilson, producer HT. 8pm family dinner:
Le Caprice.
23 (Tue) Noon KR. 8pm KRs.
26 (Fri) 8pm RHs. 11pm HWi.
27 (Sat) Noon KR.
28 (Sun) 1pm Daniel Wilson. 8pm Christopher Hampton party.
29 (Mon) 7pm King Lear Ol.
30 (Tue) 1pm HG. 6pm Daniel. 8pm Longfords.
31 (Wed) Hove.
1987
January
1 (Thur) 6pm JD. 8pm KRs.
2 (Fri) 9pm EO.
3 (Sat) 8pm PR, CB.
4–17 (Sun–Sat) HP, AF holiday in Nevis, Leeward Islands, West Indies.
18 (Sun) London.
20 (Tue) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s.
22 (Thur) 1pm KR. 8pm FRs.
23 (Fri) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8:30pm dinner KRs: Salvador restaurant.
24 (Sat) JS (Ru). 4pm KR. 7pm John Casey: Garrick.
25 (Sun) 11am JS. 7.30pm concert RFH, then dinner: Le Caprice.
27 (Tue) 8pm KRs. 9pm B BBC TV.
28 (Wed) 12:45pm JD.
29 (Thur) 1pm Daniel.
30 (Fri) Daniel’s birthday. 1pm lunch PW: Montcalm.
February
Physiotherapy.
1 (Sun) 1pm KB and family.
2 (Mon) 8pm PR. Completes HT draft.
3 (Tue) 11:30am KR. 3:30pm JD. 5:45pm FV The Pit. 8pm dinner White
Tower.
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4 (Wed) 1pm lunch parents. 8pm dinner for Miguel d’Escoto Brock-
mann, Nicaraguan Sandinista foreign minister 1979–90.
5 (Thur) 11:30am KR. 6pm JD. 8pm JRs.
7 (Sat) 11:30am KR. 8pm Madame Bovary adaptation in Watford with
EO and DPh.
8 (Sun) 1pm DPh and others. 8pm Was.
10 (Tue) 1pm JD. 8pm Puccini’s Tosca Coliseum, with KRs.
11 (Wed) 1pm demonstration for Nicaraguan Contras, US Embassy.
12 (Thur) 10:30am KR. 5:30pm Daniel Wilson. 8pm Naipauls, Anthony
and Violet Powell.
13 (Fri) 8pm meets journalist and literary agent Patrick Seale and his
wife Rana: Garrick.
15 (Sun) 11am CND photograph. 6pm KB. 9pm Seavers. A Night Out
Channel 4.
18 (Wed) 1pm lunch JBa: Belvedere.
19 (Thur) 1pm lunch SG: Belvedere. 6pm Elaine Feinstein, poet, drinks.
8pm KR.
20 (Fri) Morning reading of The Lover and SA for Vienna production
with Jill Johnson, Barry Foster, directed by KB, HP. 1pm lunch
with them. 4pm Seavers.
21 (Sat) 7:30pm Miller’s A View from the Bridge Cot.
23 (Mon) Initial rehearsal Lover and SA. 8pm KR, FWy.
24 (Tue) 1pm lunch DP: Belvedere. 7:30pm Alfred Brendel concert RFH.
25 (Wed) 1pm Patricia Losey.
26 (Thur) Mother’s birthday. 1pm meets parents. 8pm PR, CB.
27 (Fri) 11am Henry Bamburger, Associate Producer, Ru: Connaught.
8pm KRs.
March
1 (Sun) 7:30pm Ga party.
3 (Tue) 1pm Thelma Wax. 4pm Miron Grindea, literary editor. 6pm JD.
4 (Wed) 1pm EO. 8pm Detection Crime Club dinner.
5 (Thur) 12:30pm lunch Ian McEwan: Thompson’s. 8pm dinner DP: White
Tower.
6 (Fri) 6pm Ga.
7 (Sat) Joins AF Cambridge. Noon Daniel. 5pm Orlando Fraser.
9 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
10 (Tue) 2pm Lover and SA run.
12 (Thur) 4pm Gary Pudney, film producer. 9pm dinner MBis: Chez Moi.
13 (Fri) 7:15pm Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author Ol.
14 (Sat) Hove.
15 (Sun) Spends evening with Was.
16 (Mon) 11am Central America week lunch at St Paul’s. 1pm lunch AF: Le
Caprice. 8pm dinner GWs.
17 (Tue) Vienna.
21 (Sat) Vienna opening Lover and SA.
29 (Sun) 8pm Frayns’ party for Nadine Gordimer.
30 (Mon) 7:30pm Jonathan Miller’s adaptation of Ryszard Kapuściński’s
The Emperor RC.
31 (Tue) 1pm lunch KB and others.
April
1 (Wed) 1pm Nadine Gordimer ICA. 8:15pm dinner Algerian Embassy.
2 (Thur) 1pm lunch PA: Wilton’s. 8pm GW party.
3 (Fri) Noon Lover (Rediffusion screening). 1pm JD: Groucho. 8pm SR,
and others.
4 (Sat) With SGs sees Anna Carteret in Peter Nichols’ A Piece of My Mind
Apollo Theatre, then dine: Orso.
5 (Sun) 1pm bridge GW, RHs and others.
6 (Mon) 1pm lunch TA, GG: Saville Club. 6pm Ga.
7 (Tue) 4:30pm Daniel. Evening Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money RC.
8 (Wed) 7:45pm Chekhov’s Three Sisters Greenwich.
9 (Thur) 1pm HG.
10 (Fri) 1pm parents. 8pm Arthur and Inge Miller, SGs and others.
11 (Sat) 8pm Philip Saville, TV director, wedding dinner.
13 (Mon) Paris. 7pm Eric Kahane and others.
14 (Tue) 12:30pm BB. London. 8pm KBs.
16 (Thur) 1:15pm SG lunch: Groucho. 7:30pm adaptation of Elizabeth
Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (HD) Donmar Warehouse.
17 (Fri) Dinner Barbara Epstein.
18 (Sat) Evening with CFs.
19 (Sun) 1pm lunch AF: Connaught.
20 (Mon) 7:30pm Henry IV Part I OV.
21 (Tue) 1:15pm FV Lyric Studio. 8pm dinner DPh.
22 (Wed) 11pm Lord’s, MCC v Essex. 8pm KRs.
23 (Thur) SG’s Melon with AB, directed by CM, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre,
Guildford.
24 (Fri) 1pm JD: Thompson’s.
25 (Sat) 8pm MBis.
28 (Tue) 12:30pm lunch DJ: Odin’s. 4pm Honorary Fellowship Queen
Mary College, London. NFT audiotape interview (BR: J42).
29 (Wed) 10:45am David Aukin and others: Le Caprice. 7pm New York
Times phone interview (BR: G58).
30 (Thur) 6:30pm CND dinner.
May
1 (Fri) 7:30pm Henry V OV.
2 (Sat) 1pm KR.
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7 (Thur) 6:30pm George Barker reading, Poetry Society.
8 (Fri) 1pm lunch JD: Le Caprice. 8pm KRs.
9 (Sat) 8pm FRs.
10 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Ashtead. Stephen Farber interview New York
Times, Section 2: 2 (BR: G58).
11 (Mon) GW lunch for AF. 8pm dinner Lauren Bacall: Belvedere.
12 (Tue) Hove. 7:30pm Royal Albert Hall poetry festival. DW ABC
Television, directed by Robert Altman.
13 (Wed) 1pm lunch KI: Thompson’s. 8pm bridge.
14 (Thur) 12:45pm Colin Blakely funeral.
16 (Sat) 3pm FRs. 8pm RHs.
17 (Sun) 2pm Ga Ewell and Roxley.
18 (Mon) 6:30pm SRs drinks.
19 (Tue) Evening MBis.
20 (Wed) 1pm lunch HG: White Tower.
22 (Fri) 1pm lunch PW: Montcalm.
24 (Sun) 2pm Ga Chertsey. 8pm bridge.
26 (Tue) 1pm lunch JD. 7pm Prick Up Your Ears BAFTA.
27 (Wed) 1pm lunch TA, GG: Belvedere. 8:30pm bridge.
28 (Thur) 11am ‘Arts for Labour’ lunch. 7pm hears Oliver Tambo,
South African Anti-apartheid politician. 9pm dinner RH:
White Tower.
29 (Fri) 6pm Ga.
30 (Sat) 1pm lunch Bernard Murat, French film director.
31 (Sun) 1pm FRs. 8pm dinner Ronald Dworkin, academic lawyer.
June
1 (Mon) 8pm MBis, FWy.
2 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch RH: Thompson’s. 6pm JD. 8pm Wendy Kesselman’s
My Sister in This House Hampstead Theatre Club.
3 (Wed) 1pm JS, JD and others.
4 (Thur) 2:30pm JS. 7pm Antony and Cleopatra NT. Rewriting Ru.
5 (Fri) 11am JS. 6pm Lover and SA meeting Young Vic. 8:30pm dinner
SGs: Shanghai.
6 (Sat) Noon JS. 8pm KRs.
7 (Sun) Ga Oxted. ‘How I Shall Vote’ (Observer; BR: E23).
8 (Mon) Lunch JD, Thelma Wax, FF and others.
9 (Thur) Parents’ wedding anniversary. 7:30pm Macbeth Ol.
10 (Wed) 12:30pm KR. 7:30pm Richard II Barbican. 11pm dinner JI, Sinéad
Cusack.
11 (Thur) 4pm Ru, consults Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander, who left Berlin
aged 11. 8pm Longfords.
12 (Fri) 3pm Lover meeting. 7:50pm Book Choice, Channel 4, HP on George
Barker. 8:30pm RHs with André Previn, who left Berlin aged ten.
14 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Godalming. Works on Ru, outlining early

scenes.
15 (Mon) 9:30am visits Imperial War Museum.
16 (Tue) 1pm JD. 8pm sees Dusty Hughes’ Jenkin’s Ear RC.
17 (Wed) 1pm lunch Thelma Wax: Drones. 7pm Shostakovich’s
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk CGa.
18 (Thur) 7:45pm Strindberg’s Miss Julie NT.
19 (Fri) 2:30pm rehearsal Lover and SA. Sue Summers interview
‘Breaking the Silence’ (BR: G59).
21 (Sun) BP BBC2 directed by KI, with HP as Goldberg,
22–23 (Mon–Tue) Lover and SA rehearsals.
24 (Wed) Lover and SA Young Vic. directed by KB. revival Viennese
production.
25 (Thur) 1pm lunch HG.
26 (Fri) 1pm lunch PA.
28 (Sun) 2pm Ga Barclays Bank.
29 (Mon) 1pm meets JBa.
30 (Tue) 1pm parents. 8:15pm TS’s 50th birthday dinner: Garrick.
July
1 (Wed) 1pm SG. 7pm Detection Club dinner.
2 (Thur) 1pm HG.
3 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
4 (Sat) 8pm Freeds.
5 (Sun) 2pm Ga Sonning.
6 (Mon) Noon JS.
7 (Tue) 1pm JS. 8pm JS and others.
8 (Wed) 11am JS. 6pm JW drinks with Aaron Asher, literary editor.
8:30pm DPh.
9 (Thur) 11am JS. 1pm Lutz Becker, cinematic painter/designer.
10 (Fri) 1pm JD lunch: Groucho. 8pm Maya Angelou. Sees Rex
Bloomstein’s TV documentary Traitors to Hitler.
11 (Sat) 10:30am JS.
12–14 (Sun–Tue) To Avignon Festival for performances of his work.
15 (Wed) 1pm lunch Lord’s.
16 (Thur) 1pm lunch Tetsuo Kishi. 8pm KRs.
17 (Fri) 8pm Margaret Jay dinner for Carlos Fuentes.
19 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Cranleigh.
20 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch Ian Bowater, screenwriter: Little Acropolis.
7:30pm Peter Gill’s Mean Tears Cot.
21 (Tue) 11am GG, TA.
22 (Wed) 1:15pm JD. 3:30pm HG. 6pm KR. 8pm DPh.
23 (Thur) Noon Hove. 7:30pm Lover and SA cast.
24 (Fri) Noon Colin Blakely Memorial St Paul’s Church.
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25 (Sat) 2:30pm HP’s XI Guardian. first night Lover and SA.

26 (Sun) 2pm Ga Alleyns. 6pm KR. 8pm CBr and others.
27 (Mon) 1pm MG. 6pm GV.
28–18 Aug (Tue–Tue) Paxos, Greece.
August
18 (Tue) London.
20 (Thur) 12:45pm Rex Bloomstein.
24 (Mon) Ru. 7:30pm film adaptation of Howard Sackler’s The Great White
Hope.
25 (Tue) 8:30pm ED.
26 (Wed) 1pm JD. 8:30pm DPh.
27 (Thur) 1pm AF’s birthday lunch.
28 (Fri) 1:30pm Ga.
29 (Sat) Bernhurst.
31 (Mon) Hove.
September
1 (Tue) Corrects typescript Ru.
2 (Wed) 1pm HG. 7:45pm Harrison Birtwistle tribute QEH. First draft Ru.
3 (Thur) Noon JD, KB and others, lunch: Orso.
5 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch DP, KB. 8pm Freeds.
6 (Sun) 1:30pm Ga Metropolitan Police. 7:30pm William Shawcross,
political journalist, dinner for writer Marina Warner.
8 (Tue) 1pm lunch JBa: Thompson’s. 5:30pm TA, GG.
9 (Wed) 1pm lunch SG. 8pm bridge.
10 (Thur) 8pm Lettice Cooper, novelist, former PEN President, birthday
dinner.
13 (Sun) 1:30pm Ga Old Paulines. 8pm GW’s birthday.
14 (Mon) 6pm KI. 8pm KRs.
15 (Tue) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s. 5:15pm PW.
16 (Wed) To Stuttgart with JS.
20 (Sun) 1:30pm Ga Sidcup.
21 (Mon) 7pm JS. Typed outline of Ru scenes.
22 (Tue) 1pm lunch HG: Au Jardin. 7:45pm sees Japanese version of
Macbeth with KBs.
23 (Wed) 1pm lunch AF: White Tower. 6pm JD.
24 (Thur) 8pm TPs and others.
28 (Mon) 6pm JD.
29 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch RH: Hilaire. 8pm SGs.
30 (Wed) 8pm bridge.
October
1 (Thur) 1pm DPh.
4 (Sun) 7pm Colin Blakely tribute: Le Caprice, with Patricia Hodge,
Dorothy Tutin, MGa, PW.
5 (Mon) 8pm GW dinner for Kathleen Tynan.
6 (Tue) 6:45pm Rex Bloomstein’s Traitors to Hitler, 86 Wardour Street.
7 (Wed) 1pm Hove.
8 (Thur) 1pm lunch KI: Thompson’s. 6pm Ga.
9–11 Paris.
(Fri–Sun)
12 (Mon) 1pm lunch KI, JD and others. 8pm dinner party MBis, TPs,
Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
13 (Tue) 6pm TA, GG. Writing second draft Ru.
14 (Wed) 7pm Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro CGa.
15 (Thur) 6pm NH.
19 (Mon) 8pm KRs. 8.30pm Shoah Channel 4.
20 (Tue) 7:30pm Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind RC.
21 (Wed) 1pm lunch JD: Kingfisher. 8pm SG’s film adaptation of Turgenev’s
A Month in the Country.
23 (Fri) 1pm lunch IH: Thompson’s.
26 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch SG: Groucho.
27 (Tue) 1pm lunch HG: Kingfisher.
28 (Wed) 6pm Tony Knox, Irish film director. 8:30pm MW: Thompson’s.
29 (Thur) 1pm lunch AF. 8pm KRs.
30 (Fri) 10:30am Tony Knox filming (BR: K27). 1pm FF.
31 (Sat) 1pm parents. 8pm bridge FWy, Mark Amory, literary editor.
November
3 (Tue) Miller’s A View from the Bridge with Millers and others.
4 (Wed) 1pm JD. 5pm KI discusses OFR. 7:45pm dinner Ossie
Gooding and others: Le Caprice.
6–15 (Fri–Sun) New York.
7 (Sat) 1pm Natasha Fraser, Damian Fraser. 8pm Natasha Fraser’s
party.
8 (Sun) 12:30pm JS. 8:30pm EO.
9 (Mon) 12:30pm JS. 6pm Barbara Epstein. 8pm Bob Gottlieb and
others.
10 (Tue) 11am JS. 8:15pm Bob Gottlieb.
11 (Wed) 7pm dinner New York Public Library.
12 (Thur) 12:30pm Aaron Asher. 8pm reading Fairleigh Dickinson
University.
13 (Fri) 10:30am film of HWi’s The Local Stigmatic with Al Pacino at
Broadway screening room. Noon lunch Pacino and others.
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Broadway.
14 (Sat) 1pm lunch Natasha Fraser. 8pm EO, Natasha Fraser, MN
and others.
15 (Sun) London.
16 (Mon) 1:30pm SG: Groucho. 3:30pm JD. 4pm FRs.
17 (Tue) 1pm lunch JD, June Wyndham Davies, TV director of HD:
Walton’s. 8:45pm Mamet’s House of Games NFT.
18 (Wed) 1pm lunch Peter Stertz, film actor: Thompson’s. 7:30pm
PEN.
19 (Thur) 8pm British screening The Local Stigmatic.
20 (Fri) 7:30pm Stravinsky ballets CGa.
21 (Sat) 1pm FF. 2:30pm Allan Francovich’s documentary The
Houses are Full of Smoke NFT. 8:30pm KRs.
22 (Sun) Ru. 8pm party for Gore Vidal.
24 (Tue) 1pm parents. 8:30pm film The Lonely Passion of Judith
Hearne.
25 (Wed) 3pm Nicaraguan meeting. 8pm RH’s play J.J. Farr Phoenix
Theatre.
26 (Thur) 1pm lunch KR: Le Caprice. 5:15pm JD. 8pm SRs.
29 (Sun) 1pm DPh.
30 (Mon) 1pm lunch RH: Kingfisher.
December
1 (Tue) 6:30pm TA, GG.
3 (Thur) 1pm lunch PW: Montcalm. 8pm bridge.
4 (Fri) 6pm Jill Johnson.
5 (Sat) 8:15pm KRs. ‘The US Elephant Must be Stopped’ (Guardian, 10;
BR: E24).
6 (Sun) 5pm rehearsal. 7:30pm Nicaraguan evening RC.
7 (Mon) 7pm Nicaraguan reception.
8 (Tue) 1pm KI. 6pm PEN Auction party (Sotheby’s).
9 (Wed) 8:30pm DPh. Dinner with the Brendels.
10 (Thur) 1pm lunch JD: Chez Moi.
12 (Sat) 8pm dinner GW.
15 (Tue) 1pm Hove. 7:30pm Alfred Brendel concert.
17 (Thur) 5pm TA, GG.
18 (Fri) Oare.
20 (Sun) London. 8:30pm dinner CB: Kingfisher.
21 (Mon) 1pm lunch Longfords. 8pm Richard Nelson’s Between East and
West Hampstead Theatre, with KRs.
22 (Tue) 1pm lunch CM. 6pm Ga meeting. 8:30pm dinner SGs: Kingfisher.
FV on R3.
23 (Wed) 1pm lunch Rex Bloomstein: Little Acropolis. 3pm JD.
26 (Sat) 8pm bridge. The Room, ABC television, directed by Robert

Altman.
29 (Tue) 8pm bridge.
30 (Wed) 1pm lunch HG: Au Jardin. 8pm RHs.
31 (Thur) 1pm JD. 6pm Julie Christie. 8pm Longfords.
1988
January
1 (Fri) 1pm lunch Hove.
3 (Sun) To Antigua.
4–16 (Mon–Sat) Antigua.
5 (Tue) Outlining HD plot.
17 (Sun) London.
18 (Mon) 1pm JD. 7:30pm party MBis.
19 (Tue) 7:30pm dinner Freeds.
20 (Wed) 1pm DPh. 7pm PEN.
21 (Thur) 6:30pm drinks Elaine Feinstein, author. 8:30pm CFs.
22 (Fri) 1:15pm JD. Interview New York Times (BR: G60).
23 (Sat) 11:15am SR and Marianne Wiggins’ wedding. 8pm KRs.
24 (Sun) 3pm Nicaraguan meeting.
25 (Mon) 11am CM. 6pm NH, JD. 8pm JD, DP, MBis.
26 (Tue) 8:25pm No Way Out film.
27 (Wed) 12:45pm CF. 7:30pm EO.
28 (Thur) 1pm JD. 7:30pm Puccini’s Madame Butterfly Coliseum.
29 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch CBr: Little Acropolis. 8pm dinner GW.
30 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch JD, AF: Thompson’s. 6pm TA, GG. 8pm
Lauren Bacall.
February
1 (Mon) 12:30pm PA. 8pm KRs.
2 (Tue) 1pm RH. 6pm JD.
3 (Wed) 1:30pm SG: Groucho. 6pm pickets US Embassy. 7:30pm
PEN dinner.
4 (Thur) 1pm Hove. 6pm JD. 8pm bridge.
5 (Fri) 10:30am CM.
6 (Sat) 7:30pm Donald Freed’s The Quartered Man Shaw Theatre.
7–14 (Sun–Sun) Visits Nicaragua.
15 (Mon) Miami.
16 (Tue) To London.
17 (Wed) London. 6pm JD. 8:15pm RHs.
20 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
21 (Sun) Evening George Barker reading, South Bank.
22 (Mon) 1pm lunch HG: Chez Moi. Ru final draft.
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23 (Tue) 1pm Hove.

24 (Wed) 11am JD. 1pm lunch SR: Thompson’s. 6:15pm Greville Press
meeting. 8:30pm RHs.
25 (Thur) 1pm lunch Lauren Bacall: Walton’s. 7:30pm Claire McIntyre’s
Low Level Panic RC Theatre Upstairs.
26 (Fri) 1pm Stephen Spender, CFs.
27 (Sat) Works on HD. 7:15pm Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore Ol.
28 (Sun) 1pm TPs.
29 (Mon) JD.
March
1 (Tue) 5:30pm Andrew Graham-Yooll interview regarding Nicaraguan
visit (BR: G60A). 8pm dinner Frayns.
2 (Wed) 7pm PEN.
4 (Fri) 7:30pm Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd Coliseum.
5 (Sat) 8pm dinner Michael Holroyd, Margaret Drabble.
6 (Sun) 1pm lunch Jonathan Fryer, journalist. 7pm Ga AGM.
10 (Thur) 1pm lunch JD. 4pm Israeli Embassy.
12 (Sat) 8pm Aukins.
14 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
15 (Tue) Budget night. HP, AF dinner Mortimers: Kensington Place restau-
rant.
16 (Wed) 6pm Bulgarian writers.
17 (Thur) 1pm lunch GV: Little Acropolis.
18 (Fri) 1pm lunch Barry Foster: Le Caprice.
21 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
22 (Tue) 7:30pm TS’s Hapgood Ald.
23 (Wed) 8pm Mortimers.
24 (Thur) 1pm lunch Richard Adler, Broadway producer. 7:30pm Mark
Boxer, Anna Ford, FWy.
25 (Fri) First draft screenplay HD. 7pm PH farewell dinner NT.
27 (Sun) 1pm lunch Powells. Participant: ‘Nicaragua: Poets as Politicians’,
The South Bank Show, London Weekend Television (BR: K27).
7:30pm Adelphi Theatre evening for Arab orphans.
28 (Mon) 1pm lunch JD. 7:30pm Sunday Times banquet.
29 (Tue) 1pm lunch parents. HJP birthday.
30 (Wed) 3pm Andrew Graham-Yooll. 6pm BF birthday dinner.
31 (Thur) 12:30pm lunch David Aukin, Richard Eyre: L’Escargot. 3.30pm
CM.
April
1 (Fri) 6pm TA, GG. 8pm KR, CM.
2 (Sat) 8pm SG’s CPu Phoenix Theatre.
3 (Sun) 8pm Arthur Miller.
5 (Tue) 1pm Turkish Committee. Letter to Mrs Thatcher. 4:30pm JD.

5:30pm NH, JD.
6 (Wed) 1pm lunch CM: Chez Moi.
7 (Thur) 1pm lunch JS: Thompson’s. 8pm Jill Johnson.
8 (Fri) IP conference, Cambridge.
9 (Sat) One of five speakers, PEN Writers’ Day, Cambridge.
11 (Mon) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s.
14 (Thur) Noon Richard Eyre, David Aukin. 8pm Mortimers.
15 (Fri) 12:30pm lunch Andrew Graham-Yooll: Groucho. 8pm Ga:
Groucho.
16 (Sat) 11am Lord’s with CBr, MCC v Nottinghamshire.
18 (Mon) 6pm JD.
19 (Tue) 12:30pm lunch parents.
21 (Thur) 10:30am Vanessa Redgrave. 8pm KRs.
22 (Fri) 1pm lunch JD and others. 7:30pm Václav Havel’s Temptation The
Pit. Second draft HD.
26 (Tue) 8pm dinner Lauren Bacall: White Tower. Third draft HD.
27 (Wed) 1pm lunch SG: Groucho. 8pm GW dinner for Penelope Gilliatt,
writer.
28 (Thur) 1pm lunch JD: Chez Moi.
30 (Sat) 1pm FWy. 6pm TA, GG.
May
Andrew Graham-Yooll interview ‘Pinter Among the Poets’, South, 91: 116–17
(BR: G60A).
1 (Sun) 8pm KRs.

4 (Wed) 7pm PEN (Black Writers) meeting.
5 (Thur) 8pm DPh.
6 (Fri) 12:30pm PA. 6pm Patricia Losey. 8pm bridge CFs.
7 (Sat) 6:30pm EO.
8 (Sun) 2pm Ga Old Paulines.
10 (Tue) 1pm lunch Thelma Wax: Le Caprice. 3pm Falklands War film
Tumbledown BAFTA. 7:45pm Frank McGuinness’s Factory Girls
Riverside Studios.
11 (Wed) 8:30pm dinner MN: La Tante Claire.
12 (Thur) Noon lunch PW: Wilton’s. 6:30pm SG, then sees Errol John’s
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl Almeida.
14 (Sat) Ru interviews. 6pm JS: Blakes.
15 (Sun) Lunch FRs.
19 (Thur) 1pm lunch JBa: Chez Moi.
20 (Fri) To Oare.
22 (Sun) 12:30pm JD agency anniversary lunch: Groucho.
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23 (Mon) 1pm Richard Eyre, David Aukin NT.

24 (Tue) 1pm Patricia Hodge. 8pm Mortimers.
25 (Wed) 8pm SG.
26 (Thur) 8pm Society of Authors dinner.
27 (Fri) 1:15pm lunch Stephen Spender: Chez Moi. 8:30pm dinner DPh:
Thompson’s.
28 (Sat) To Amsterdam. 7:30pm ‘Language and Lies’ address, European
Conference Nicaragua (BR: E25).
29 (Sun) London.
31 (Tue) 1pm JD: Sheekey’s.
June
2 (Thur) 5pm TA, GG.
3 (Fri) Late morning anti-Reagan demonstration. 8pm Greville
Press dinner.
4 (Sat) Lord’s, Middlesex v Worcestershire. 8pm Brian Friel’s,
Aristocrats Hampstead Theatre Club.
5 (Sun) 6pm drinks Maya Angelou. 7:30pm Before the Act by Gay/
Lesbian writers and composers Piccadilly Theatre.
6 (Mon) Noon Lord’s with SG. 8pm MGa in Chekhov’s Uncle
Vanya Vaudeville Theatre, translated by Michael Frayn.
7 (Tue) 5pm David Aukin.
8 (Wed) 7:30pm PEN.
9 (Thur) 1pm parents’ anniversary, Hove.
11 (Sat) 6pm birthday drinks for HP’s German publisher Ludwig
Rowohlt: Ritz. 7:30pm Britten’s Peter Grimes CGa.
12 (Sun) Ga Godalming.
14 (Tue) 7:30pm Nick Ward’s The Strangeness of Others Cot.
15 (Wed) 11am Aaron Appelfield, author. 1pm lunch HG: Belvedere.
7:30pm PEN.
16 (Thur) Morning Maya Angelou. 12:30pm lunch Isaiah Berlin: Le
Caprice.
17 (Fri) 1pm Prunella Scales.
18 (Sat) 11am BBC box, Lord’s, England v West Indies. 7:45pm
Middleton’s The Changeling Ly.
19 (Sun) Ga Marlborough 1870.
20 (Mon) Campden Hill Square political discussion forum: follow-
ing dinner, HP reads AF Shakespeare’s sonnets (Must: 154).
21 (Tue) 11am CM.
22 (Wed) Noon honorary degree University of Sussex. 8pm Jack
Plumb dinner. MoL fourth draft.
24–27 (Fri–Mon) Dorset.
29 (Wed) HD. 6:30pm PEN.
30 (Thur) 2:30pm celebration of British radio (BAFTA). 8pm KRs.
July
1 (Fri) HD fourth draft.
2 (Sat) 1pm Inkpen, Warner’s birthday.
4 (Mon) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s. 6pm TA, GG.
6 (Wed) 7:30pm Detection Club dinner.
7 (Thur) 6pm Eileen Atkins, actress, Ly. 8pm Mortimers.
8 (Fri) 1pm lunch CBr: Little Acropolis. 8pm dinner EO.
9 (Sat) Goes to Bernhurst.
10 (Sun) Ga Hurst Green.
12 (Tue) 10:30am–1:30pm Holocaust readings rehearsal, Purcell
Room, QEH. 6pm Richard Imison, BBC Radio Drama script
editor. 8pm KRs.
13 (Wed) Morning political demonstration. 1pm JS.
14 (Thur) 11am JD. 1:30pm SG. 6pm Martha Gellhorn and others.
9pm dinner Vikram Seth: Chez Moi.
15–17 (Fri–Sun) At Oare.
18 (Mon) Participates in Holocaust reading Purcell Room, QEH.
19 (Tue) 1pm Tetsuo Kishi. 5pm auditions for MoL NT. 5:45pm
Richard Eyre.
20 (Wed) 1pm lunch LM: Thompson’s. 7pm Miguel d’Escoto Brock-
mann party (ninth anniversary of Nicaraguan revolution).
pm KBs.
21 (Thur) 1pm parents. 6pm Isabel Fonseca, writer. 8pm SR, Elizabeth
West.
22 (Fri) 10:30am rehearsal. 1:15pm lunch HG: Chez Moi.
25 (Mon) Delegation to US Embassy.
26 (Tue) 3pm Mark Boxer funeral. 6pm EO. 8pm Mortimers.
27 (Wed) Morning auditions MoL NT. 1pm Richard Eyre.
31 (Sun) Ga Great Hampden.
August
1 (Mon) 7:30pm Alexander N. Ostrovsky’s Too Clever by Half OV.
2 (Tue) 1pm lunch JD: Thompson’s. 8pm dinner FW.
3 (Wed) 8pm Michael and Pat York.
4 (Thur) BBC box Oval, England v West Indies. 8pm bridge.
6 (Sat) 9:30am Volker Schlöndorff director HT. 4pm Arts for
Nicaragua.
7 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Roehampton
8 (Mon) 1pm Hove. 3pm PW: Grand Hotel. 8pm RHs.
10 (Wed) 5:30pm MGa. 8pm bridge.
13 (Sat) 8pm CFs.
16 (Tue) To Paxos, Greece.
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24 (Wed) Ru begins shooting.
September
6 (Tue) London.
7 (Wed) 1pm JD. 6:30pm JBa, JE drinks.
8 (Thur) 1pm Hove.
9 (Fri) 6pm CFs.
10 (Sat) 6pm Marina Warner. 8pm KRs.
12 (Mon) 1pm lunch Andrew Snell, TV director: Chez Moi. 4pm MoL
production meeting. 8pm dinner Mortimers: Thompson’s.
13 (Tue) 6pm Sue Summers, journalist.
14 (Wed) 1pm Patricia Losey. 8pm bridge.
15 (Thur) 1pm HG. 4:30pm PA. 8pm DPh.
16 (Fri) 3:30pm MoL auditions NT.
17 (Sat) 6pm rehearsal T.S. Eliot reading.
18 (Sun) 1pm lunch Longfords.
19 (Mon) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm dinner Jordanian monarch
and others.
22 (Thur) 1pm lunch Gioconda Belli, Sandinista, writer Charles
Castaldi, American journalist and broadcaster. 8pm KRs.
23 (Fri) 2pm rehearsal T.S. Eliot reading QEH. 7:45pm Ibsen’s A
Doll’s House Riverside Studios.
24 (Sat) 6pm TA, GG.
25 (Sun) T.S. Eliot rehearsal. 6–8pm MBis.
26 (Mon) 2–4pm first rehearsal MoL NT. 7:45pm T.S. Eliot cente-
nary QEH.
27–28 (Tue–Wed) MoL rehearsals.
29 (Thur) 9am camera, then 10:30am Omnibus, BBC, with Anna
Ford (see BR: K28), broadcast 21 October 1988. 1pm lunch
Andrew Snell, Anna Ford, Daisy Goodwin, director.
30 (Fri) 11am–1pm rehearsal.
October
1 (Sat) 1pm DPh.
2 (Sun) 11am JD. 8:30pm sees anti-apartheid film World Apart
Curzon cinema.
3 (Mon) 6pm Ian McEwan. 7:30pm Mortimers.
4 (Tue) Works on HD.
5 (Wed) Cheltenham Festival. 9pm OFR.
6 (Thur) London. HD.
7–13 (Fri–Thur) Letter ‘Mountain Language’ (TLS, 1109; BR: F12).
7 (Fri) 10:40am Omnibus recording. 11:30am rehearsal.

5:30pm JD.
9 (Sun) 6pm Louis Malle’s Au Revoir Les Enfants Curzon.
10–15 (Mon–Sat) MoL rehearsals. 2:45pm HD. MoL first edition, Faber
(BR: A47b).
12 (Wed) 6pm Omnibus viewing. 8pm GW dinner for EO.
13 (Thur) 8pm DPh dinner for AF.
14 (Fri) 3pm Omnibus. 4:30pm dress rehearsal.
15 (Sat) 7:45pm David Hare’s The Secret Rapture NT.
16 (Sun) Interview (Observer, 13; BR: G61).
17–19 (Mon–Wed) Rehearsals, and previews MoL.
18 (Tue) Interview Sue Summers, ‘A Conscientious Objector’
(Independent, 19; BR: G62).
20 (Thur) 3:20pm rehearsal. MoL opens Ly, as early evening Plat-
form Performance, directed by HP. 8:30pm Faber dinner.
21 (Fri) 6:15pm MoL. 8pm GW party for AF. Participant in
Omnibus programme, BBC1, broadcast 10:20–11:20pm.
23 (Sun) 1pm DPh.
24 (Mon) 11am BBC TV, MoL. 7pm party for Gioconda Belli
(Nicaraguan Embassy).
25 (Tue) 1pm PW. 3:30pm Gioconda Belli. 6:15pm MoL.
27 (Thur) 1pm CBr. 3pm BBC MoL. Interview ‘Radical Departures:
Harold Talks to Anna Ford’ (Listener, 120, No. 3086:
5–6; BR: G63).
28 (Fri) 7:30pm Nicholas Wright’s Mrs Klein Cot.
29 (Sat) 7:30pm Verdi’s Falstaff CGa.
30 (Sun) 7:30pm Alfred Brendel concert.
31 (Mon) 1:15pm SG: Groucho.
November
1 (Tue) 10:30am Mike Jackley, production manager. 9pm Terence
Davies’ film Distant Voices Still Lives.
2 (Wed) 11am BBC planning meeting, MoL. 1pm Mike Jackley.
7:30pm PEN (MoL).
3 (Thur) 1pm JD. 6:15pm MoL with PA.
4 (Fri) 5:30pm cast meeting MoL. 6:15pm performance. 9pm DPh.
5 (Sat) Noon MoL. 7:45pm David Hare’s The Secret Rapture NT.
6 (Sun) 11am TA, GG.
7 (Mon) 1:15pm lunch John Schlesinger: Boyd’s. 3:30pm BBC.
6:15pm MoL.
8 (Tue) 10:30am rehearsal BBC MoL. 6:15pm MoL. 9pm dinner
Freeds: Da Mario.
9 (Wed) 10:30am recording MoL. 8pm Donald Freed, KB.
10–11 (Thur–Fri) Rehearsals.
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11 (Fri) 8pm RH dinner for Freeds.

12 (Sat) 8pm Mamets.
14 (Mon) MoL BBC studio.
15 (Tue) 1pm JD: Le Caprice. 7:30pm Britten’s War Requiem RFH.
16 (Wed) 6:30pm PEN Cartoon Auction. 7:30pm Detection Club
dinner.
17 (Thur) 10am–7pm edit MoL. 8pm dinner GW.
18 (Fri) Edit MoL.
19 (Sat) Hove.
20–27 (Sun–Sun) In New York with AF.
21 (Mon) 1pm Barbara Epstein. 8pm MN.
22 (Tue) Sonny Mehta, publisher, and Gita Mehta, author, lunch
for AF. 8pm Gottliebs.
23 (Wed) 6pm Carey Perloff.
24 (Thur) 1pm KRs. 6pm Joan Didion and Barbara Epstein party.
25 (Fri) 1pm Mel Gussow. 8pm sees SB’s Waiting for Godot.
26 (Sat) 8pm sees Coriolanus.
27 (Sun) Wedding anniversary, return to London.
28 (Mon) 1pm JD: Thompson’s.
29 (Tue) 6:30pm Nicaraguan committee.
30 (Wed) 1pm Mel Gussow. Letter published in the Independent, 21,
justifying the assertion he made that the UK has become
a USA satellite (BR: F13).
December
2 (Fri) 1pm HG: Le Méridien.
3 (Sat) 9am–6:45pm edit.
5 (Mon) MoL NT. 1pm David Aukin. 3pm dress rehearsal. 6:15pm MoL.
6 (Tue) 10am–6pm dubbing. 1pm JD. 6:15pm MoL. Mel Gussow, ‘Pinter’s
Plays Following Him out of Enigma and into Politics’ (New York
Times, Section C: 17, 22; BR: G64).
7 (Wed) 10am–9pm dubbing. 7pm PEN party. 9pm RHs: Da Mario.
8 (Thur) 1pm Hove. 6:15pm MoL.
9 (Fri) 6:15pm MoL. 8pm dinner GW.
10 (Sat) Noon MoL. 8pm CFs.
11 (Sun) 1pm Ian McEwan. 10:15pm MoL televised BBC2.
12 (Mon) Visits Antwerp.
13 (Tue) London. 6pm JD. 6:15pm MoL.
14 (Wed) 1:15pm MoL. 5:30pm Tetsuo Kishi. 6:15pm MoL. 8pm MoL party.
15 (Thur) 5:30pm JD.
16 (Fri) Noon James Atlas, New York Times journalist.
17 (Sat) Rebecca Fraser wedding to Edward Fitzgerald. 8pm dinner DPh.
18 (Sun) Evening party for KBs.
19 (Mon) 10am AKA BBC. 6:15pm RH. 7:30pm meeting regarding Israel.
21 (Wed) Drafting Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers (CS). 10am–

12:30pm John Schlesinger. 8pm dinner GW.
24 (Sat) Dinner TPs.
28 (Wed) 1pm JD. 6pm Michel Ciment, French film critic. 8pm dinner
Anna Ford.
29 (Thur) 7:30pm Ibsen’s The Enemy of the People The Playhouse.
31 (Sat) Leave for Inkpen.
1989
January
1 (Sun) Inkpen and Oare.
2 (Mon) London. 8pm Mortimers.
3–6 (Tue–Fri) Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, works on CS.
4 (Wed) Participant in ‘Two Dogs and Freedom: A Concert for the
Children of South Africa’, series Signals, BBC TV, transmitted
(BR: K29).
7 (Sat) London, Longfords.
9 (Mon) 7pm Strauss’ Die Fledermaus CGa.
10 (Tue) 2pm HD assembly with CM, director. 8pm Carlos and
Silvia Fuentes, SRs.
11 (Wed) 1pm JD. 7pm sees Derek Jarman’s War Requiem.
12 (Thur) Lunch after tennis, CBr: Chez Moi. 8pm DPh.
15–20 (Sun–Fri) AF, HP Hotel Daniel, Venice. HP works on background for
screen adaptation of CS (Must: 156).
21 (Sat) Paris. Cut of Ru.
22 (Sun) 10am SB. 1pm Eric Kahane. Then to London.
23 (Mon) 2pm works on HD. 8pm JS.
24 (Tue) 8pm Mortimers.
25 (Wed) 7pm Nicaragua meeting. 9pm Longford, House of Lords.
26 (Thur) 3pm CS. 9pm dinner for Margaret Atwood.
27 (Fri) 1pm lunch JD.
28 (Sat) 8pm Miller’s Two Way Mirror Young Vic.
29 (Sun) 1pm lunch for Alison Lurie, novelist.
30 (Mon) 1pm parents. 8:30pm BF.
31 (Tue) 1pm lunch EO: Da Marco. 7:30pm Puccini’s Madame
Butterfly CGa.
February
1–3 (Wed–Fri) Works on CS.
1 (Wed) 8:30pm HWi.
2 (Thur) 8pm SG.
3 (Fri) 7:30pm Ga AGM.
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5 (Sun) 1pm family dinner. 5pm TA, GG.

6 (Mon) 8pm BBC dinner.
8 (Wed) 7:30pm PEN dinner Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian political activ-
ist and writer.
9 (Thur) 1pm lunch Allan Francovich, film director: Thompson’s. First
draft of CS with revisions bound (HPA).
11 (Sat) 8pm Klaus Mann’s Siblings Lyric Hammersmith.
12 (Sun) 8pm Dworkins, EO and others.
13 (Mon) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm dinner GW.
14 (Tue) 2:30pm Bruce Chatwin Memorial Service, Greek Orthodox
church. Following the service, HP is asked if he’d heard about the
fatwa against SR. HP, AF express strong support for SR (Must: 157).
15 (Wed) 1pm LM: Thompson’s.
17 (Fri) 1pm RH. 8pm CFs.
18 (Sat) 8:45pm Lauren Bacall: Chez Moi.
19 (Sun) 11am John Schlesinger.
20 (Mon) 11am SR defence meeting. 1pm Ian McEwan. 7:45pm Shura
Cherkassky Beethoven piano sonata recital QEH.
21 (Tue) 7:15pm Mortimers.
22 (Wed) 7:30pm South African rally.
24 (Fri) 7:30pm David Mamet’s film Things Change Everyman.
26 (Sun) 1pm JD. HP obtains SB’s signature of support for SR: HP fre-
quently on TV and elsewhere supporting SR.
28 (Tue) 8pm RHs.
March
1 (Wed) 7:30pm meeting ‘June 20 Society’ (see Billington: 307).
2 (Thur) 7:30pm HG.
3 (Fri) 11am SR defence meeting. 8pm dinner Chinua Achebe.
4 (Sat) HP one of the speakers, PEN Writers’ Day (Must: 158).
6 (Mon) 1pm parents. 7:45pm Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow NT.
7–8 (Tue–Wed) Works on CS.
9 (Thur) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm MBis, FWy.
12–13 SR spends the night at HP’s house so that he can see his
(Sun–Mon) son and family – surrounded by heavy security.
14 (Tue) Third draft of CS with revisions bound.
15 (Wed) 10:15am petition UN London office on behalf of SR
(Must: 159–60).
16 (Thur) 1pm SG: Groucho. 3:30pm HG.
18 (Sat) 5pm Errol Morris’ film The Thin Blue Line. 8pm dinner EO,
Peter Eyre.
20 (Mon) 12:30pm CBr: Groucho. 8pm Mortimers.
23 (Thur) 6:30pm rehearsal Vanilla, HP directs. 7:30pm George Barker.
24 (Fri) Sara Paretsky, novelist.
25 (Sat) 1pm parents. 6:30pm Verdi’s Don Carlos CGa.

26 (Sun) 1pm family dinner.
27 (Mon) 7:30pm Richard III Barbican.
28 (Tue) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm BF’s birthday.
29 (Wed) AF Toronto. 8pm RHs, JD: Chez Moi.
30 (Thur) Visits Daniel at Beezling Fen.
April
2–8 (Sun–Sat) AF, HP New York.
4 (Tue) 1pm lunch Barbara Epstein. 6pm dinner Mehtas.
5 (Wed) 8pm sees Classic Stage Company in Don Juan of Seville,
directed by Carey Perloff.
6 (Thur) 7:30pm PEN.
7 (Fri) 1pm David Fromkin. 4pm PR. 8pm Epsteins and others.
8 (Sat) HP returns to London.
9 (Sun) 8pm John Schlesinger.
14 (Fri) 1pm JD.
15 (Sat) Lord’s, MCC v Worcestershire. 7:45pm King Lear OV.
17 (Mon) 1pm parents.
21 (Fri) 9pm Ga dinner: Groucho.
22 (Sat) 8pm MBis.
24 (Mon) 6pm PW. Fifth draft with additional pages inserted of CS
(HPA).
25 (Tue) 1:15pm SG: Groucho. 8pm Mortimers.
27 (Thur) 1pm DJ. 7pm Joshua Sobol’s Ghetto NT.
28 (Fri) 6:30pm Ru screening.
29 (Sat) 7:45pm David Storey’s The March on Russia Ly.
30 (Sun) 9pm RHs.
May–June
Michael Ciment interview, ‘Reunion: Harold Pinter Visually Speaking’, Film
Comment, XXV, No. 3: 20–2 (BR: G65).
May
1 (Mon) 1pm Jane Stanton Hitchcock, writer. HP directs her Vanilla. 8pm
KRs.
3 (Wed) 1pm HW: Thompson’s. 5pm Jane Stanton Hitchcock. 7:30pm
PEN dinner Brian Aldiss.
4 (Thur) 1pm Hove.
5 (Fri) 12:30pm Jane Stanton Hitchcock and others: Savoy. 5:30pm DJ.
8pm BF.
7 (Sun) AF, HP party for the Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (Must:
155–6). Mandrake, ‘Pinters Bow Out of the Group’, Sunday
Telegraph, 13 (BR: H10).
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8 (Mon) Maastricht PEN conference, then to Brussels.

12 (Fri) Brussels.
13 (Sat) London. 6pm DJ and others. 8pm KRs. Film of B shown on
BBC2.
14 (Sun) BP on BBC2.
16 (Tue) 1:15pm SG: Groucho. 7pm Longford, House of Lords. 7:30pm Ru
screening (Cannes).
17 (Wed) 1pm MGs: Da Mario.
18 (Thur) 1pm JD. 8pm dinner: Au Jardin.
19 (Fri) 8pm dinner John and Teresa Wells.
20 (Sat) 8pm SR and others.
21 (Sun) Noon Cricketers Club lunch. 8pm HW.
23 (Tue) 8pm DPh.
25 (Thur) 5pm LM.
26 (Fri) 1pm parents. 8pm CM.
28 (Sun) 8pm RHs: Da Mario.
29 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
30 (Tue) 1pm KI: Belvedere.
June
1 (Thur) 1pm TA. 7pm The Merchant of Venice Phoenix Theatre. BP BBC2.
2 (Fri) 1pm Anthony and Violet Powell.
3 (Sat) 7:30pm Thomas Allen concert.
4 (Sun) 2pm Ga Lloyd’s Register.
5 (Mon) 1pm JD.
6 (Tue) 1pm HG: Da Mario.
7 (Wed) 1pm Longfords. 7pm PEN Albie Sachs.
8 (Thur) HP, AF visit Moravia and Prague: meet dissidents, translators. HP
drinks too much beer!
9 (Fri) Drives from Prague to Václav and Olga Havel’s home at Hrádeček
near Trutnov.
11 (Sun) Prague, party for dissident writers.
12 (Mon) HP visits Zdenek Urbánek for a video interview. HP, AF return
home (Must: 162–8). 8pm Paul Schrader.
13 (Sun) 7pm University of East Anglia.
14 (Wed) 6pm JD. 8pm KRs.
15 (Thur) 1:15pm Paul Schrader, directs CS.
17 (Sat) 1pm HG. 6pm TA, GG.
18 (Sun) 1pm Longfords.
19 (Mon) 1pm GV: Thompson’s. 5pm HW, MG.
20 (Tue) 11am HD. 1pm SGs. 6pm Francis Gillen, editor The Pinter Review.
21 (Wed) 7pm PEN party.
22 (Thur) Lord’s, England v Australia test match. 7:30pm King John The Pit.
23 (Fri) 1pm parents. 6pm LM.
24 (Sat) 7:30pm The Grapes of Wrath NT.

25 (Sun) 2pm Ga Marlborough 1870.
26 (Mon) 11am Lord’s, test match. 1pm SG.
27 (Tue) 4pm HD. 8pm Patricia Losey and others.
28 (Wed) 6pm JD.
29 (Thur) 6pm Faber party. 8pm dinner Francis King.
30 (Fri) 1pm PA. 8pm KRs.
July
Fax messages between Schrader and HP regarding casting of CS (HPA).
1 (Sat) 7:30pm Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, directed by
PH, Glyndebourne.
3 (Mon) 1pm CM: Belvedere.
4 (Tue) CS. 6:30pm Civil Liberties reception.
6 (Thur) 1pm DPh. 6pm RH and others. 8pm EO.
7 (Fri) In Munich. HT with Volker Schlöndorff, director,
and Danny Michael, sound mixer.
8 (Sat) London.
10 (Mon) 2:30pm ‘Z’ NFT.
11 (Tue) 10pm BBC News Night on death of LO.
12 (Wed) Lunch Gaia Servadio, writer.
13 (Thur) Hove. 8pm Freeds.
17 (Mon) 1pm Hove. 7:30pm Isaiah Berlin. Final draft of CS.
18 (Tue) 1pm LM: Thompson’s. 7:30pm Nomi Sharon On the
Road to Jerusalem New End Theatre.
19 (Wed) Noon SR committee.
20 (Thur) 1pm HW: Thompson’s.
21 (Fri) 1pm SG: Groucho. 6pm JD.
23 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Cranleigh.
25–7 Aug (Tue–Mon) Corfu.
28 (Fri) Lawrence Van Gelder interview (New York Times,
Section B: 4; BR: G66).
August
Works on The Trial.
8 (Tue) London.
9 (Wed) 1pm JD.
10 (Thur) 1pm Donald Freed. 5:30pm LM.
12 (Sat) Promenade concert, BBC box.
13 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Roehampton.
14 (Mon) 1pm parents. 8pm KRs.
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15 (Tue) 8:15pm RHs.

16 (Wed) 3pm HT, Volker Schlöndorff. 5:30pm George Painter, biographer.
7:30pm Harley Granville-Barker The Voysey Inheritance Cot.
18 (Fri) Gore Vidal and others.
20 (Sun) Ga Tadworth.
22 (Tue) 1pm SG: Groucho. 7pm Donald Freed’s Veteran’s Day Theatre
Royal Haymarket.
23 (Wed) 5:30pm LM.
24 (Thur) 1pm JD: Belvedere. 7pm sees Lawrence of Arabia film Odeon
Marble Arch.
25 (Fri) 3pm PH.
26 (Sat) 8pm Freeds.
27 (Sun) AF’s birthday celebration.
29 (Tue) 6pm JD. 8pm dinner EO.
30 (Wed) 1pm Longfords.
31 (Thur) 5:30pm TA, GG.
September
1 (Fri) 1pm parents. 8pm KRs.
3 (Sun) 11:30am Ga NatWest Bank.
5 (Tue) 1pm HG: White Tower. 7:30pm Henry VI Barbican.
6 (Wed) 12:30pm JBa: Da Mario. 8pm SRs, Richard Eyre and others.
7 (Thur) 8pm sees Jacknife with Robert De Niro (Dean Street).
8 (Fri) 7:30pm Richard Nelson’s Some American Abroad The Pit.
9 (Sat) 10:30am KR. 8pm bridge CFs.
10 (Sun) 3pm to Rome. 8pm Paul Schrader.
11 (Mon) CS rehearsals.
12 (Tue) 8pm cast dinner.
13 (Wed) London. 6pm National Portrait Gallery party for GW’s birthday.
14 (Thur) ‘Oh, Superman’, television talk, for Opinions series, Channel 4
(BR: K30).
15 (Fri) 1pm Jack Lemon. 7:30pm Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (Moscow Arts
Theatre) NT.
16 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
17 (Sun) 1:30pm Ga: Groucho.
18 (Mon) 1:15pm SG: Groucho.
19 (Tue) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 6:30pm TA, GG.
21 (Thur) 1pm Hove. 10pm Martin Amis drinks: Polish Club.
22 (Fri) To Toronto with AF.
23 (Sat) PEN conference, Toronto. 7:30pm MW.
25 (Mon) 8pm Toronto reading. 10pm Arthur Miller.
26 (Tue) 11:30am writers’ panel.
27 (Wed) To Montreal.
28 (Thur) 10:45am French TV. 1:15pm Canadian TV.
29 (Fri) To New York. 7:45pm Mehtas.

30 (Sat) 8pm Barbara Epstein.
October
1 (Sun) 8pm Bob Gottlieb.
2–6 (Mon–Fri) MoL rehearsals.
2 (Mon) 6pm Costa-Gavras, film director, LM.
4 (Wed) 6pm Mehta party. 8pm Jane Stanton Hitchcock and others.
6 (Fri) 6:30pm Volker Schlöndorff.
7 (Sat) London.
9 (Mon) 6:30pm drinks, Philip Ziegler biographer. 8pm BF.
10 (Tue) 8pm RHs: Le Caprice.
11 (Wed) 1pm Mark Shivas, producer, LM.
13 (Fri) 1pm JD.
14 (Sat) 5:30pm Wagner’s Die Walküre CGa.
15 (Sun) 8pm CFs.
16 (Mon) 1pm SG. 8pm KR.
17 (Tue) 1pm Hove. 8pm dinner GW.
18 (Wed) D (works on the novel, BR: W2). 6pm David Caute, JL’s
biographer. Letter ‘Freedom of the Vote in Nicaragua’
(Times, 21g; BR: F13A).
19 (Thur) 8pm DPh.
20 (Fri) 11am attends LO Memorial Westminster Abbey.
20–22 (Fri–Sun) Holcombe, Gloucestershire.
24 (Tue) D. 1pm Ian Holm.
26 (Thur) 1pm Faber lunch.
27 (Fri) 7:45pm Rostropovich concert Barbican.
28 (Sat) D. 5pm Frith Banbury. 7:30pm Wilde’s Salome NT.
29 (Sun) 10am Director’s Guild meeting, RC.
30 (Mon) 11am PEN NT Platform meeting. 1pm JD: Orso. 8pm MBis.
November
Works on D.
1 (Wed) 6pm NH. 8pm bridge.

2–7 (Thur–Tue) Grand Hotel, Eastbourne works on D.
7 (Tue) 1pm Hove.
8 (Wed) 6:45pm Bruce Chatwin evening PEN.
9 (Thur) 6pm PEN LO celebration. 7pm Patricia Losey drinks. 9pm
RHs.
10 (Fri) D.
11 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
14 (Tue) 3:30pm Matthew Evans, TV scriptwriter. 5pm KR.
15 (Wed) 1pm JD: Cibo. 7:30pm Detection Club.
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17 (Fri) 1pm DPh and others: Cibo. 9pm SGs.

19 (Sun) ‘Writers in Prison’ meeting.
20 (Mon) 8pm MBis.
23 (Thur) 12:30pm HG. 5:45pm Danny Wilson, producer HT: Savoy.
7:30pm Kurt Weill’s Street Scene Coliseum.
24 (Fri) 6pm JD.
25 (Sat) To New York. 7:30pm Barbara Epstein.
26 (Sun) 10am HT. 6pm Jane Stanton Hitchcock. 8pm EO and others.
27 (Mon) London.
28 (Tue) 1pm Robert McCrum, Faber editorial director: Chez Moi.
December
1 (Fri) DW Theatre Royal Haymarket. 6pm JD. 8pm KRs.
5 (Tue) 1pm JBa: Cibo. 6:30pm sees film of AAy’s Chorus of
Disapproval.
6 (Wed) 1pm CM: Thompson’s. 6:30pm PEN, Christmas party
for Stephen Spender.
7 (Thur) AKA Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by Frith
Banbury. 5:30pm LM.
8 (Fri) Parents. 7pm Sondheim’s A Little Night Music Piccadilly
Theatre.
11 (Mon) 8pm dinner MBis.
12 (Tue) 11:30am attends A.J. Ayer Memorial.
14 (Thur) 11:30am demonstration Israeli Embassy for Mordechai
Vanunu. 12:30pm Allan Francovich: Thompson’s.
15 (Fri) 6pm JD.
18 (Mon) 1:30pm lunch SG. 8pm bridge.
19 (Tue) 1pm Jill Johnson.
20 (Wed) 8pm dinner Rabbi Friedlander.
21 (Thur) 1pm Longfords. 6pm Siân Phillips, actress.
24 (Sun) Lunch Johnsons.
26 (Tue) 8pm RHs.
27–28 (Wed–Thur) Evenings bridge.
30 (Sat) HD on Granada television, directed by CM,
31 (Sun) 1pm Hove. 8pm Bernhurst.
1990
January
2 (Tue) 6pm film When Harry Met Sally Odeon Haymarket.
3 (Wed) 1pm DP: Le Caprice.
4 (Thur) 1pm JD. 3pm HG. 6pm Ned Chaillet, dramatist, producer. 8pm
Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good Garrick Theatre.
5 (Fri) 12:30pm Jill Johnson, drinks. 6pm TA, GG. 8pm KRs.
7–20 (Sun–Sat) Mauritius holiday.

11 (Thur) Works on Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (Re)
(Billington: 324).
21 (Sun) London.
22 (Mon) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm MN and his wife Diane
Sawyer.
23 (Tue) 1pm MN. 6pm Nigella Lawson, cookery expert. 8pm
DPh.
24 (Wed) Tristan Bates memorial service, son of AB, died at the age of
19. 3:30pm MN.
25 (Thur) 9pm Carlos and Silvia Fuentes, Arthur and Inge Miller: Le
Suquet.
26 (Fri) 10am SB reading BBC. 8pm SRs.
28 (Sun) 8pm Stephen Spender dinner with OS and Francis Bacon.
29 (Mon) 1pm JD: Bentley’s. 6pm Robert McCrum and his wife, jour-
nalist Sarah Lyall. 8pm KRs.
30 (Tue) 1pm Barry Foster: Orso. 4pm SR defence meeting. 6pm
David Aukin.
31 (Wed) 1pm Hove. 7:30pm Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict Coliseum.
10:15–10:30pm SB TV programme (BR: K31).
February
1 (Thur) 8:30am Nicaraguan breakfast. 1:15pm SG: Groucho.
8:45pm EO: Cibo.
2 (Fri) Poem: ‘It is Here’ (TLS, 4531: 113; BR: C27a). 10am Vanilla
auditions.
3 (Sat) 7:30pm Miller’s The Price Young Vic.
4 (Sun) 7:30pm Ga AGM.
5 (Mon) 1pm Hove. 6pm JD. 8pm KRs.
6 (Tue) 1:30pm KB: Cibo. 7:15pm delivers SR’s Herbert Read
Memorial Lecture, at ICA (SR in hiding; see Must: 160–1;
BR: H12). 8:30pm dinner Warners.
7–11 (Wed–Sun) HP, AF Prague, East Berlin.
8 (Thur) Visits Wenceslas Square, evening at the theatre, Olga and
Václav Havel.
9 (Fri) Evening HP dinner attended by the Havels. Meets Jane
Fonda Balustrade Theatre.
10 (Sat) Prague Cathedral. HP views locations for projected
screenplay of Kafka’s The Trial.
11 (Sun) HP, AF East Berlin Film Festival includes Margaret
Atwood’s HT (HP’s screenplay). Brandenburg Gate, sees
the Wall. HP buys AF for around £6 a piece of the wall
(Must: 168–72).
12 (Mon) London.
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13 (Tue) 8:30pm DPh.

14 (Wed) Vanilla auditions. 8pm dinner Bernice Rubens.
15 (Thur) 6:30pm Borodin’s Prince Igor CGa.
16 (Fri) Vanilla auditions.
17 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
18 (Sun) 8pm RHs: Da Mario.
19 (Mon) 1pm JBa: Cibo.
20 (Tue) Morning Vanilla auditions. 1:15pm HG: Portman.
22 (Thur) 8pm sees Romero film with Warners and Julie Christie at the
Cannon.
23 (Fri) Noon CS.
24 (Sat) 8:30pm AAy’s Man of the Moment Globe Theatre.
27 (Tue) Vanessa auditions. 1pm Mike Brearley, former cricketer, writer,
psychoanalyst. 7:30pm David Hare’s Racing Demon Cot.
March
Throughout month, rehearsing Vanilla.
1 (Thur) 7:30pm sees Miller’s The Price with KRs.

2 (Fri) 8pm dinner Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann.
3 (Sat) 6pm TA, GG.
4 (Sun) B rehearsal for radio production (BR: W41.6).
6 (Tue) 8pm bridge Warners.
8 (Thur) 10am LM. 1pm JD. 4pm Wa, SR delegation.
9 (Fri) 6pm Robert McCrum, Andrzej Klimowski, Faber illustra-
tor.
10 (Sat) Parents.
12–16 (Mon–Fri) Vanilla rehearsals.
14 (Wed) 8pm DPh.
17 (Sat) 8pm dinner EO.
18 (Sun) 1pm DPh and JG. Evening RHs.
19 (Mon) 8pm dinner for publication of AF’s The Cavalier Case.
20 (Tue) 8pm Carlos and Silvia Fuentes: White Tower.
21 (Wed) HP, AF attend Buckingham Palace lunch for Havel (Must:
173).
22 (Thur) Noon JD. 10:45pm RSC party for Havel.
24 (Sat) 1pm LM and others.
25 (Sun) 1pm GV.
26 (Mon) 7:30pm Sunday Times banquet.
27 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
29 (Thur) 8pm discusses The Trial with LM.
30 (Fri) 6pm Greville Press party.
April
Rehearsals for Vanilla production.
1 (Sun) 7:30pm SB evening NT.
2 (Mon) 8pm David Mamet.
4 (Wed) 8:45pm HT NFT.
5 (Thur) 3:30pm Vanilla run. 8pm FF.
6 (Fri) 8pm Ga dinner.
9 (Mon) 9:30am recording Opinion for Channel 4, broadcast
31 May 1990: in Various Voices (VV): 175–82; BR I9a.
3pm rehearsal, Lyric Haymarket. 8pm SR and others.
10 (Tue) 6:30pm Ga.
11 (Wed) 8pm PEN ( John Cleese).
12 (Thur) 12:30pm JD: Bentley’s.
13 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
15–18 (Sun–Wed) Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton.
17 (Tue) Vanilla opens Theatre Royal, Brighton.
19 (Thur) 6pm KRs.
22 (Sun) 8pm Verdi’s Requiem RFH.
23–26 (Mon–Thur) Brighton, Vanilla production.
30–5 May (Mon–Sat) Bath, Vanilla production.
May
4 (Fri) Michael Owen interview (Evening Standard, 28; BR: G67).
7 (Mon) 1pm JD.
8 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
9–12 (Wed–Sat) Vanilla.
10 (Thur) 1pm JD.
14–17 (Mon–Thur) Vanilla.
18 (Fri) 1pm parents.
21 (Mon) 1pm JD. 7pm company call CS.
25 (Fri) 8pm dinner Sara Paretsky: Groucho.
27 (Sun) 8pm KRs. ‘Yanquis Go Home!’ (The Independent on
Sunday, Sunday review section: 10–11, 15; BR: E27).
29 (Tue) 8pm Claire Tomalin, Michael Frayn.
30 (Wed) 6pm JBa.
31 (Thur) 11am JD. 1pm Nigel Williams. 8pm ‘Oh Superman’
broadcast, Opinion Channel 4.
June
1 (Fri) 1:15pm AF. 8:30pm PEN dinner, Nadine Gordimer and others (Must:
190–2).
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4 (Mon) 12:45pm John Cleese: Cibo. 8pm FF.
5 (Tue) 7:30pm Ibsen’s The Wild Duck Phoenix Theatre, with KRs.
6 (Wed) 6pm Richard Johnson. 8pm GW dinner.
7 (Thur) 6:30pm screening of Frank Cvitanovich’s Dear Sarah.
8 (Fri) 1:15pm SG: Groucho. AF, HP visit Father Michael Campbell-
Johnston (Must: 192–3).
9 (Sat) 12:30pm lunch parents (anniversary).
10 (Sun) 2pm Ga NatWest Bank. 8pm Was.
11 (Mon) 5pm Labour Party drinks Theatre Museum.
12 (Tue) 7pm SG’s Hidden Laughter Vaudeville Theatre.
13 (Wed) 1pm Duncan Weldon. 6pm SG.
14 (Thur) 11am SG. 6:35pm film Trop belle pour toi. 8:45pm EO: Odin’s.
15 (Fri) Visit Father Michael Campbell-Johnston.
16 (Sat) 5pm TA, GG. 8pm dinner for Milton Shulman: Garrick Club.
17 (Sun) 11am SR. 1pm KB. 8pm dinner CFs.
18 (Mon) 12:30pm Mike Forrest: Windsor Castle pub.
19 (Tue) Visits Daniel Beezling Fen. 10pm Vanilla cast supper party.
20 (Wed) Noon JD. 1pm LM: Thompson’s. 7:30pm ‘June 20 Society’ meet-
ing.
21 (Thur) 1pm CF: Cibo.
23 (Sat) 11am Lord’s, England v New Zealand.
25 (Mon) 1pm Mel Gussow: Bentley’s. 6pm sees film Fools of Fortune. 8pm
KRs.
26 (Tue) Noon SG. 1pm JD and others: Thompson’s. 6pm Robert McCrum.
8pm Brearleys, JBa, JE.
27 (Wed) 1pm parents. 6pm Johnsons drinks. 8pm Mexican Embassy din-
ner for Fuentes.
28 (Thur) 12:45pm lunch Longford, House of Lords (with Denis Compton,
cricketer). 6:30pm Faber party. 8:30pm SG and Victoria
Rothschild (VR) (SGs).
29 (Fri) 1:15pm David Fromkin: Cibo. 8pm Martha Gellhorn and others.
30 (Sat) 1pm Imperial War Museum.
July
2 (Mon) 10:30am Stephen Schiff, script writer (see Sharp Cut: 352). 4.15pm
Guatemalan delegation, to Foreign Office.
3 (Tue) Warwick with EO.
4 (Wed) 8pm Detection Club dinner.
5 (Thur) 10am Stephen Schiff. 6pm sits for Lord Snowdon photograph.
6 (Fri) Ru released.
7 (Sat) 8:30pm final performance Vanilla.
8 (Sun) Ga Sonning-on-Thames.
9 (Mon) 12:30pm DP and others. 8pm dinner Warners.
10 (Tue) 11:30am Stephen Schiff. 1pm HG. 8:45pm Ru Odeon,

Haymarket.
11 (Wed) Hever Castle, Kent with AF. 9pm DPh.
12 (Thur) 2:30pm PH. 6pm Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate. 8pm
KRs.
16 (Mon) AF, HP receive honorary doctorates, University of Sussex.
1pm meets parents. 8pm Graduands dinner.
17 (Tue) Doctoral ceremonies and lunch. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida,
Robert Cooper.
19 (Thur) 10:30am TV interview on adaptation of HD (Sharp Cut:
373). Dinner John Stefanidis, interior designer.
20 (Fri) 1:30pm JD: Cibo. 6:30pm SR. 8pm Fuentes.
22–28 (Sun–Sat) New York, stays with MN.
22 (Sun) 8pm Seavers (Must: 193).
27 (Fri) 8pm MN party.
28 (Sat) London.
30 (Mon) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm KRs.
31 (Tue) 1pm Lord’s with SG. 6pm interview Waterstone’s.
August
1 (Wed) 1pm parents. 5pm TA, GG. 7:30pm Chekhov’s The Three
Sisters RC.
2 (Thur) 9pm Longford, Val Pakenham: Cibo.
3 (Fri) 1pm RH: Cibo. 2:15pm JD. 6:30pm P.D. James birthday
party Faber.
4–11 (Sat–Sat) Dublin.
14 (Tue) 1pm JD: Le Caprice. 6pm Andrzej Klimowski.
15 (Wed) 8:30pm VR: Thompson’s.
16 (Thur) 10:30am screening TS’s film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead BAFTA.
17 (Fri) 11am Faber. 8pm KRs.
19 (Sun) Ga Tadworth. 8pm dinner for Michael Foot, Labour
politician.
20 (Mon) Initial BP rehearsal. 8pm Zdenek Urbánek, former Czech dis-
sident.
23 (Thur) 1pm John Malkovich and others: Cibo. 5pm Thames TV
with BF. 8pm EO and others.
24 (Fri) 10:30am H interview for planned revival. 6pm JD.
25 (Sat) Brian Johnston interview in A View from the Boundary series,
BBC Radio 3, within Test Match Special programme (BR:
J45).
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26 (Sun) 7pm KRs.

27 (Mon) HP, AF marriage ‘convalidated’ in an upstairs chapel at Farm
Street church, conducted by Fr Michael Campbell-Johnston, SJ
(Must: 194).
28 (Tue) 1pm HG: Ivy.
29 (Wed) 1pm parents. 8pm dinner for Scott Turow, lawyer, novelist.
30 (Thur) 11am Kaleidoscope interview (BR: J46). 1pm SG: Cibo.
31 (Fri) 1pm PA: Ivy. 6pm Ga. 8pm KRs.
September
Stephen Schiff interview Vanity Fair, 219–22, 300–3 (BR: G68).
4–24 (Tue–Mon) Corfu.
17 (Mon) The Comfort of Strangers and Other Screenplays, Faber
edition (BR: B7).
25 (Tue) London.
26 (Wed) 1:15pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm dinner German Embassy.
27 (Thur) 6pm Faber party. 8:30pm SR and others.
28 (Fri) 1pm parents. 6:30pm CS screening. 8pm sees Eduardo
Machado’s translation of José Ignacio Cabrujas’ The Day
You’ll Love Me Hampstead Theatre.
29 (Sat) Polly Toynbee ‘Profiles Playwright Harold Pinter’ (Guardian,
23; BR: G70).
October
Film CS directed by Paul Schrader, general release.
1 (Mon) 6pm NT reading from D, novel.
2 (Tue) 1pm RHs: Thompson’s. 2:30pm Alban Berg’s Wozzeck Coliseum.
3 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
4 (Thur) 1pm SG. 8pm Alfred Brendel.
7 (Sun) 7pm interview Paul Allen. Broadcast on Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio
4 (BR: J46).
8 (Mon) 11am H initial rehearsal.
9 (Tue) 9:30pm B BBC Radio 3, directed by Ned Chaillet, HP as Robert
(BR: W41.6).
10 (Wed) HP’s 60th birthday. 8pm party: Cibo, 60 guests. celebrated by
four-hour programme on BBC Radio 3. D novel, British standard
edition, Faber (BR: D8a).
11 (Thur) 1pm Daniel: Thompson’s. ‘Arthur Miller’s Socks’, in Arthur Miller
and Company, Methuen (BR: C28).
12 (Fri) 12:30pm Mike Forrest, actor, Windsor Castle pub. 8pm Anouilh’s
The Rehearsal Almeida.
14 (Sun) 1pm Vlasta Gallerová, Czech theatre historian, RHs and
others.
15 (Mon) Works on Re; much of the script later replaced with version
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: seven or eight HP scenes retained
(Billington: 324). 8:30pm Lauren Bacall: Ivy.
17 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
18 (Thur) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 6:30pm Gary Oldman. 9pm BF.
19 (Fri) Cardiff for BP production.
20 (Sat) London. 8pm SR.
22 (Mon) Amsterdam.
23 (Tue) Free University with Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet, priest,
politician.
24 (Wed) London.
27 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
29 (Mon) 1pm Patricia Losey: Thompson’s. Draft Re (BR: W55). Polly Toyn-
bee profiles playwright Harold Pinter, Guardian, 23 (BR: G70).
November
1 (Thur) 6:30pm Ga.
2 (Fri) HT film general release, directed by Volker Schlöndorff (BR:
W53.4). 8pm Geoffrey Strachan, writer: Da Mario.
3 (Sat) 6pm TA, GG.
5 (Mon) Noon London Limited Editions (see BR: D8c). 7:30pm SG’s film
They Never Slept.
6 (Tue) 1pm parents. 8pm KRs.
7 (Wed) 8:30pm DPh and others.
8 (Thur) 11am Frith Banbury. 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 5:15pm LM, JD.
7:30pm Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa NT.
9 (Fri) 10am Dutch TV (Amnesty). 12:30pm ME: Groucho. 2:30pm H.
10 (Sat) 7:45pm Mitsuko Uchida recital Barbican.
12 (Mon) 8pm RHs, Mortimers and others. Interview relating to H,
Guardian, 35 (BR: G71).
13 (Tue) Birmingham, first performance H Alexandra Theatre.
14 (Wed) London. 7:45pm Detection Club dinner.
16–19 Los Angeles. Stays with MN.
(Fri–Mon)
20 (Tue) London. 7pm ‘June 20 Society’ for SR.
21 (Wed) OT, initial BBC rehearsal. 8:30pm David Cannadine, Linda
Colley, historians: Thompson’s.
22 (Thur) 7:45pm BP revival at The Place.
23 (Fri) 1pm JD: Le Caprice. 6:30pm Ga.
24 (Sat) 8pm Marlane Gomard Meyer’s Etta Jenks RC.
25 (Sun) 2pm censorship meeting with Ariel Dorfman.
27 (Tue) 1pm anniversary lunch: Connaught, with AF. 7:30pm Beethoven’s
Fidelio CGa.
29 (Thur) 6pm Jill Johnson.
30 (Fri) CS opens in London (BR: W54). 1pm parents. 9pm KRs.
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December
1 (Sat) 7:45pm Brearleys.
2 (Sun) 11am ED. 1pm Fr Michael Campbell-Johnston, Andrew
Graham-Yooll.
3 (Mon) 11am Bradford. 8pm Lucy Gannon’s Dancing Attendance
Bush Theatre.
4 (Tue) 7:30pm Judith Weir’s The Vanishing Bridegroom CGa, sees
with Jeremy and Gillian Isaacs.
6 (Thur) 1pm SG: Rules. 8:30pm DPh and others: Cibo.
7 (Fri) 1:15pm Carlos Fuentes: Ivy. 6:35pm CS Curzon.
8 (Sat) 6pm Patricia Losey. 8pm KRs.
9 (Sun) 1pm TPs, BF. 6pm Vanunu visit.
10 (Mon) 1pm KR: Cibo.
11 (Tue) 1pm KB: Thompson’s.
12 (Wed) 8pm dinner Fuentes.
13 (Thur) 1pm Millers. 8pm H in Bath.
14 (Fri) 11am OT (BBC).
15 (Sat) 1pm parents. 6pm ED. 8pm Freeds.
16–22 (Sun–Sat) OT TV production, directed by CM, recorded at BBC stu-
dio (BR: W32.5).
16 (Sun) 10am OT.
17 (Mon) First B rehearsal Almeida. 6pm FF. 8pm KRs.
18 (Tue) 3pm OT.
19 (Wed) 5pm Janet Frame’s film An Angel at My Table, directed by
Jane Campion.
20 (Thur) Noon Freeds. 1:15pm HG: Le Caprice.
21 (Fri) 1pm ED: Thompson’s. Finishes OT recording. 9pm cast
dinner: Thompson’s.
22 (Sat) 8pm dinner Patrick and Rana Seale, Jason Epstein.
23 (Sun) 1pm lunch Johnsons. 8:15pm KRs.
25 (Tue) 1pm Christmas family lunch.
26 (Wed) 1pm family lunch.
28 (Fri) 8pm SRs, McEwans.
29 (Sat) 1pm parents. 7pm David Sylvester, art critic, FWy.
30 (Sun) Evening RHs.
31 (Mon) To Inkpen, Warners.
1991
January
2 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson. 6:30pm H technical details.
3 (Thur) 1:15pm SG: Groucho. 7:15pm photo with PH. 8pm H first pre-
view.
4 (Fri) 10:30am B run. 6pm H cast.
5 (Sat) 1pm JD. 8pm KRs.

6–19 (Sun–Sat) Mauritius holiday.
12 (Sat) Comedy Theatre revival of H.
20 (Sun) London.
21 (Mon) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm KRs. H and B Faber editions (BR:
A20d, 37d).
22 (Tue) 1pm lunch Nick Roeg, film director, Lolita script (Sharp Cut:
351–2). B revival Almeida.
23 (Wed) 6:30pm H cast Almeida. 8pm Strauss’ Capriccio CGa.
24 (Thur) Noon JD. 6pm final draft bound screenplay Re.
25 (Fri) 1pm parents. 7pm Dances with Wolves BAFTA.
26 (Sat) 1pm BF.
28 (Mon) 6:30pm David Sylvester and others.
29 (Tue) 12:30pm cricket lunch, John Major and others, House of
Lords. 8pm FP dinner. Signatory joint letter on arbitrary
political detentions (Independent, 16; BR: H13).
30 (Wed) 8pm dinner Warners.
31 (Thur) 1pm RH: Cibo. 8pm KRs.
February
1 (Fri) 1pm lunch JD. 6pm sees Reversal of Fortune film.
2 (Sat) 1pm Elio Nissim, Italian translator. 8pm SRs and others.
3 (Sun) Letter ‘Gulf War’ (Observer, 19: BR: F15).
5 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
6 (Wed) 8pm dinner Arnold Goodman.
10 (Sun) 1pm family dinner, FF, Longfords.
11 (Mon) 6pm Cyrano de Bergerac film. 8pm DPh.
12 (Tue) 1pm KR: Thompson’s.
13 (Wed) 1:15pm HG: Bentley’s.
14 (Thur) 12:45pm LM: Fence. 8pm David Sylvester.
16 (Sat) 7:30pm sees wartime film Fires Were Started.
17 (Sun) 7pm Ga AGM. Joint letter ‘Labour is Failing the Challenge of a
Cynical and Unnecessary War’ (Guardian, 18; BR: H15).
18 (Mon) 1pm JD: Thompson’s. 8pm KRs.
19 (Tue) 11am Vanunu Trustees meeting. 1:30pm AF: Le Caprice. 4:30pm
Wagner’s Götterdämmerung CGa.
20 (Wed) 10:30am LM.
21 (Thur) 1pm Clive Donner: Sandrini. 8pm EO dinner.
22 (Fri) 8pm H with DPh.
23 (Sat) Bernhurst.
24 (Sun) 1pm Hove.
25 (Mon) 6:30pm H, takes notes.
26 (Tue) 1pm AF: Quai St Pierre. 8pm HG.
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March
1 (Fri) 11am HG. 1pm Jill Johnson. 7:30pm Saint-Saëns’
Samson and Delilah CGa.
2 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
3 (Sun) 1pm P.D. James. 8:30pm John Casey: La Fenice.
5 (Tue) 7:30pm Timon of Athens Young Vic.
6 (Wed) 1pm David Sylvester, Lord Bancroft, House of Lords.
8:15pm bridge.
7 (Thur) 1pm Hove.
8 (Fri) 8pm dinner DPh.
9–13 (Sat–Wed) Works on PaT, originally called ‘Normal Service’.
9 (Sat) 8pm bridge BF.
13 (Wed) 1pm JD: Cibo.
14 (Thur) 1pm MBis: Thompson’s. 6:30pm Gavin Ewart Poetry
Society. ( Joint letter) ‘Easing the Suffering of War’
(Guardian, 20; BR: H16).
15 (Fri) 3pm C meeting.
16 (Sat) 1pm lunch Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director.
Dinner KRs.
17 (Sun) 1pm Spenders and others.
18 (Mon) 1pm CBr: Little Acropolis. 8pm Faber dinner for Paul
Auster.
19 (Tue) Ian McEwan, JD: Thompson’s.
20 (Wed) 1pm SG: La Fenice. 8pm KRs.
21 (Thur) 1pm Hove.
22 (Fri) 3pm C understudies, auditions Comedy Theatre.
23 (Sat) 4pm sees Marieluise Fleisser’s Pioneers in Inglestadt Gate
Theatre. 8pm SGs.
25–27 (Mon–Wed) Los Angeles.
25 (Mon) Stays with the Freeds.
26 (Tue) 1pm MN. 4pm Re reading with Meryl Streep and JI.
28 (Thur) London.
29 (Fri) 11am JD.
31 (Sun) 2:20pm sees The Godfather. 8pm KRs.
April
2 (Tue) 10am BBC records reading from Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet.
3 (Wed) 6pm David Caute.
4 (Thur) 1pm Hove. 7:45pm D the White Bear.
5 (Fri) 10am recording South Bank Show, on ‘Graham Greene 1904–1991’,
London Weekend TV (BR: K32).
6 (Sat) 11am ED. 1pm Julian Belfrage, actors’ agent, lunch party.
7 (Sun) 1pm John Casey. 8pm Longford, Val Pakenham: La Fenice.
8 (Mon) 1pm DP. 6:30pm LM, István Szabó, Hungarian film

director, Kobi Jaeger, executive producer, discuss The
Trial script: Wilton’s. Co and The Lover Faber edition
(BR: A14d).
9–12 (Tue–Fri) C rehearsals: HP directs.
12 (Fri) 8pm SR and others.
13–14 (Sat–Sun) Oare.
15 (Mon) 1pm Ian Richardson, Denholm Elliott, actors.
16 (Tue) 6pm LM.
17 (Wed) 11am JD.
18 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
19–21 (Fri–Sun) HP symposium, Ohio State University, Columbus,
honours HP’s 60th birthday, includes rehearsed read-
ing of PaT and audio-tape HP reading of New World
Order (NWO).
20 (Sat) 7:30pm Britten’s Peter Grimes Coliseum.
21 (Sun) 8:30pm family dinner: La Fenice.
23 (Tue) 6:30pm JD.
24 (Wed) 8pm DP.
27 (Sat) 1pm Hove.
29–4 May (Mon–Sat) Rehearsals.
29 (Mon) 8pm Tony Garrett, SGs, EO.
May
2 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
4 (Sat) 1pm cast lunch: Orso. 7pm RHs.
5 (Sun) Noon Lawrence Weschler, non-fiction writer. 4:30pm Newcastle.
7 (Tue) C Newcastle.
10 (Fri) London.
11 (Sat) 8pm CFs.
13 (Mon) 1pm lunch Barry Foster.
14 (Tue) 10am Birmingham C opening.
15 (Wed) 8pm dinner Arnold Goodman.
17 (Fri) 1pm Hove. 8pm SR.
19 (Sun) 2pm cricket Ga. 8pm SGs.
20 (Mon) 1pm lunch Francis Gillen. 8pm SGs.
21 (Tue) Bradford for C.
22 (Wed) London.
23 (Thur) 8pm Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist Wyndham’s Theatre.
24 (Fri) 1pm Patricia Losey: Thompson’s. 7:30pm Stephen Oliver’s
opera Timon of Athens Coliseum. Letter ‘Bush’s Comic Talent’
(Independent, 22; BR: F16).
26 (Sun) 2pm Ga Woldingham.
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27 (Mon) 8pm KRs.

28 (Tue) 11am Terence Baker Memorial Service. 12:30pm JD. 3pm to
Sheffield for C.
29 (Wed) London. 8pm Lauren Bacall: Le Caprice.
30 (Thur) 10am Henry VIII exhibition Greenwich. 6:15pm C meeting
Comedy Theatre.
31 (Fri) 12:30pm photographs C programme. 1pm lunch AF, RH, FWy.
3pm Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.
June
1 (Sat) 8pm H cast party: Ivy.
2 (Sun) 2pm Ga: Lloyd’s Register.
3 (Mon) C Guildford.
4 (Tue) 11am Roger Lloyd-Pack. 8:15pm film of TS’s Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead Curzon, West End.
5 (Wed) 8:30pm Margaret Jay, DPh.
6 (Thur) 11am Graham Greene Memorial Service, Westminster
Cathedral. 8pm Dryden’s All for Love Almeida, with
Benjie and Lucy Fraser (BFs) (Must: 197).
7 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
8 (Sat) 1:30pm Birtwistle’s Gawain CGa.
9 (Sun) Parents’ 65th wedding anniversary.
10–11 (Mon–Tue) Bath for C.
13 (Thur) 1pm JD: Cibo.
14 (Fri) 1:30pm SG: La Fenice. 7:30pm Shostakovich’s Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk Coliseum.
15 (Sat) 6pm family wedding reception.
16 (Sun) 8pm SRs, Was.
17–20 (Mon–Thur) C rehearsals Comedy Theatre.
18 (Tue) Joint statement ‘America’s $17bn Debt to Nicaragua’
(Independent, 16; BR: H17).
20 (Thur) C.
21 (Fri) 2:30pm PA funeral, St Mary’s.
22 (Sat) Lord’s, England v West Indies.
23 (Sun) 2pm Ga Marlborough 1870. 8pm SGs.
24 (Mon) 1pm KR: Ivy.
25 (Tue) 6pm Simon Louvish, author.
26 (Wed) 1pm Hove. 8pm Ian McEwan: La Fenice.
29 (Sat) Noon Wimbledon tennis.
30 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
July
4 (Thur) 7:30pm Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden RC Theatre Upstairs.
5 (Fri) Dinner Cannadines: L’Etoile.
6 (Sat) Dinner RHs.

7 (Sun) Ga Sonning.
8 (Mon) 12:45pm SG.
9 (Tue) 8pm Gordon Edelstein, American theatre director: La
Fenice.
10 (Wed) 12:30pm JD: Le Caprice. 3pm House of Commons
demonstration.
11 (Thur) 8pm Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo Playhouse
Theatre. 10:30pm DP: Le Caprice.
12 (Fri) 1pm Hove. 6pm Ian MacNeil, designer, NWO. 8pm KRs.
13 (Sat) Bernhurst.
15–18 (Mon–Thur) Rehearsals NWO.
15 (Mon) 8:30pm Jeremy Hutchinson, former husband of PA.
16 (Tue) 1pm Mel Gussow. 9pm Arts for Nicaragua Fund meet-
ing and dinner: Le Caprice.
17 (Wed) 10am Ian MacNeil. 5:30pm rehearsal C.
19 (Fri) NWO, directed by HP, RC Upstairs.
20 (Sat) Noon James Fox. 6pm TA. 8:30pm Gluck’s Orpheus and
Eurydice CGa.
22 (Mon) Noon production meeting Almeida. 6pm JD. 7pm
bridge CFs.
23 (Tue) 11am Young People’s Theatre RC. 1pm lunch Fuentes.
8pm GW.
24 (Wed) 1pm CBr: Le Caprice. 3:10pm Westminster Abbey
Deanery, arrangements PA Memorial. 6pm Barry Davis
interview for Jewish Quarterly (BR: G72).
25 (Thur) 8pm dinner BF.
26 (Fri) To Pylewell, Hampshire.
27 (Sat) BFs’ wedding (Must: 197).
29 (Mon) 7:30pm NWO.
30 (Tue) Daniel. 8pm KRs.
31 (Wed) 3pm C. 8pm DPh.
August
1 (Thur) 1pm Hove. 8pm Longford, Val Pakenham.
2 (Fri) 1pm EO. 7:30pm NWO and Death and the Maiden, RC, cast supper.
6 (Tue) 1pm MN: La Fenice. 7:30pm 100th performance C. 8:30pm Thelma
Wax. 10:30pm MN.
7 (Wed) 12:45pm BB: Little Acropolis.
8 (Thur) Oval, England v West Indies.
9 (Fri) Oval. 8pm SRs: Le Caprice.
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12 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
13 (Tue) 1pm JD: La Fenice.
14 (Wed) 12:30pm SG: Little Acropolis. 3:30pm HG.
15 (Thur) 1pm Hove.
17 (Sat) Joins AF in Edinburgh.
21 (Wed) 10:30am Colin Firth. 12:30pm Almeida. 8pm KRs.
22 (Thur) 1pm KB: Cibo. 8pm SGs, RHs.
24–25 (Sat–Sun) Ampleforth weekend.
26 (Mon) Brecht’s Arturo Ui Ol.
27 (Tue) 1pm AF’s birthday lunch: Connaught. 8pm Le Caprice.
28 (Wed) 11:30am production meeting Almeida. 5:30pm HG. 8pm
KBs.
29 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
30 (Fri) 1pm JD: La Fenice. 8:30pm C. 10:30pm C company: Le
Caprice.
31 (Sat) 1pm parents. 8pm SRs and Alan Yentob, producer.
Autumn
NWO, Granta (BR: A48b).
September
1 (Sun) 2pm cricket. 8pm SGs: La Fenice.
2–15 (Mon–Sun) Holiday Corfu. Writing The Trial screenplay.
16 (Mon) London.
18 (Wed) 8pm Margaret Atwood.
19 (Thur) 1pm JD: La Fenice. 7:30pm Guatemalan evening.
20 (Fri) 1pm Hove. 8pm Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler Playhouse.
21 (Sat) 6pm Ian MacNeil.
24 (Tue) 8pm Euripides’ Hippolytus Almeida.
25 (Wed) 11:30am Angus Wilson Memorial. 8pm KBs: Cibo.
26 (Thur) 3pm auditions. 8pm Wertenbaker’s Three Birds Alighting
on a Field RC.
27 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
29 (Sun) 8pm dinner Sergio Ramírez, Nicaraguan writer. Joint let-
ter ‘Mordechai Vanunu: More in Need of Help Than Ever’
(Independent on Sunday, 21; BR: H19).
30 (Mon) 10:30am initial rehearsal PaT, MoL.
October
3 (Thur) 7pm Britten’s Billy Budd Coliseum. 8:30pm HP’s reading Hikmet’s
poetry BBC Radio 3.
4 (Fri) 1pm rehearsal.
5 (Sat) Noon JD. 9pm Rodney Ackland’s Absolute Hell BBC2.

6 (Sun) 3pm Barry Davis. Ru NFT.
8 (Tue) 8:30pm BF: Ivy.
9 (Wed) 12:30pm LM.
10 (Thur) ‘Government Attacks Access to Justice’ (Independent, 10;
BR: H20).
14 (Mon) 2pm rehearsal.
15 (Tue) 1pm JD: La Fenice. 8pm SG.
16 (Wed) Rehearsal. 7:30pm PEN.
17 (Thur) 1pm Hove.
18 (Fri) 1pm KR, LM.
19 (Sat) 10:30am rehearsal. 1pm MG.
20 (Sun) 4pm KR.
21–24 (Mon–Thur) Rehearsals.
24 (Thur) 12:30pm LM.
25 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
26 (Sat) 10am rehearsal. OT televised BBC2.
27 (Sun) 1pm Dorfmans, SGs. 4pm DJ.
28–30 (Mon–Wed) Final rehearsals.
31 (Thur) PaT press night Almeida, double bill with MoL, directed
by HP.
November
1 (Fri) 1pm JD. 8pm PaT.
2 (Sat) PaT rehearsals and performance.
3 (Sun) 6pm Longfords’ anniversary party.
4 (Mon) 1pm PW funeral. 8pm preview Dorfman’s Death and the
Maiden RC. PaT stage version, Faber and Faber (BR: A49a).
5–7 (Tue–Thur) PaT, MoL.
9 (Sat) 1pm Hove. 8pm KRs.
10 (Sun) 1pm MN: Le Caprice.
11 (Mon) SR support meeting. 4–7pm DJ.
12 (Tue) 8pm SRs.
13 (Wed) 1pm Jonathan Miller, IH. 7pm Almeida.
14–16 (Thur–Sat) With AF, Chewton Glen, luxury spa hotel in Hampshire.
17 (Sun) London.
18 (Mon) 1pm JD: Cibo. 6pm GV.
19 (Tue) 8pm Almeida.
21 (Thur) 1:30pm SG: La Fenice. 6pm Dame Felicitas Corrigan,
Benedictine nun, author.
22 (Fri) 11am rehearsal NWO. 6pm Ga. 8pm Fuentes, Aukins,
A.S. Byatt, P.D. James.
23–24 (Sat–Sun) New York.
23 (Sat) 9pm Gottliebs.
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Stage Right, New York.
25 (Mon) Returns to London. 8pm NWO RC.
26 (Tue) 1pm JD: l’Altro. 6pm David Leveaux, Jack Plumb.
27 (Wed) 7:30pm Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra CGa.
28 (Thur) 1pm DJ: l’Altro. 8pm NWO.
29 (Fri) 10am rehearsal. Noon, PA Memorial Service. 8pm PaT.
30 (Sat) 2:30pm notes, NWO. 5pm TA, GG.
December
First week, publication ‘American Football – A Reflection on the Gulf War’,
Bomb, 82 (BR: C29a).
2 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
3 (Tue) 1pm Hove.
4 (Wed) 8pm Billy Roche’s Belfry Bush Theatre.
5 (Thur) Zurich, PaT performance.
6 (Fri) London.
9 (Mon) 8pm Hugh Whitemore’s It’s Ralph Comedy Theatre. 10pm
Timothy West.
10 (Tue) 10am DJ. 1pm lunch PH. 8pm PaT.
11 (Wed) 11am DJ (discussing The Trial, DJ directs). 6:30pm Czech
Embassy reception.
12 (Thur) 6pm Tetsuo Kishi: Groucho.
13 (Fri) 12:45pm CM: La Fenice.
16 (Mon) 1pm Patricia Losey: Cibo. 8pm Cannadines, SRs.
17 (Tue) 1pm lunch Alan Ross. 8pm HW.
19 (Thur) 1pm Jill Johnson. 7:30pm BFs.
20 (Fri) 6pm SG. 8pm KRs.
21 (Sat) Last night PaT, MoL, then cast: Ivy.
22 (Sun) 2:45pm Vanunu demonstration. 8pm JD party for RH: Savoy.
23 (Mon) 6pm Hugh Whitemore.
26 (Thur) 1pm family lunch.
28 (Sat) KRs.
30 (Mon) 1pm HW. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
31 (Tue) 9pm dinner Arnold Goodman.
1992
January
BBC films shooting script of The Trial.
3 (Fri) 7pm Frayns drinks.
4 (Sat) 1pm parents. 8pm RHs party.
5 (Sun) 7:45pm Jill Johnson party.
7 (Tue) 7pm Tom Murphy’s The Gigli Concert Almeida.

8 (Wed) 7:45pm The King’s Consort QEH.
9 (Thur) 1pm JD.
10 (Fri) 8pm FWy.
13 (Mon) 6pm Hugh Whitemore.
14 (Tue) 1pm Paul Pickering, novelist, dramatist, Windsor Castle pub.
8pm SGs.
16 (Thur) 1pm parents. 8pm EO party.
17 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
18 (Sat) 1pm TPs.
19 (Sun) 1pm Lauren Bacall: Le Caprice.
20 (Mon) 1pm JD: Cibo. 8pm SRs, RHs, DPh. Letter ‘The Play’s the Thing’
(Times, 13a; BR: F17).
21 (Tue) 1pm Charles Sisson, poet: Ivy. 5:30pm LM.
22 (Wed) Paris. 6:30pm OFR.
23 (Thur) C’était hier (OT) directed by Sami Frey.
24 (Fri) London. MG.
25 (Sat) 10am NM read-through (BBC Radio).
27 (Mon) 12:30pm MG. 6pm Patricia Losey.
28 (Tue) 12:30pm DJ: l’Altro.
30 (Thur) 1:15pm LM l’Altro. 6pm JD. 8pm KRs.
31 (Fri) 10:30am MG. 8pm Brian Friel’s Faith Healer RC.
February
1 (Sat) 7:30pm Ga.
3 (Mon) 8pm Longfords: Grill St Quentin restaurant (GSQ).
4 (Tue) 1pm lunch Lord Palumbo, Chair Arts Council.
6 (Thur) 1pm Trial lunch.
7 (Fri) Norwich.
8 (Sat) 11am TA, GG. 7pm Handel’s Xerxes Coliseum.
10 (Mon) 1pm DP: Le Caprice. 8pm KRs.
11 (Tue) 11:30 PW Memorial Service.
12 (Wed) 1pm Mary Flanagan, actress: l’Altro.
14 (Fri) 1pm JD, Michael Custance, director: Little Acropolis. 6.15pm SR
dinner.
15 (Sat) Hove. 8.45pm Lover Channel 4.
17 (Mon) 11am Andrew Graham-Yooll. 6.30pm CM.
18 (Tue) 7pm Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden.
19 (Wed) 1pm KI: Belvedere. 7.30pm PEN.
20 (Thur) Dirk Bogarde, Simone Warner: GSQ.
21 (Fri) 6pm DJ.
22 (Sat) 8:30pm DPh.
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24 (Mon) 1pm Hugh Whitemore. 3pm PT. 8pm KRs.

25 (Tue) 7pm Mozart’s Don Giovanni CGa, with BFs.
26 (Wed) FPs 88th birthday. 11am George Barker’s Memorial Service.
2.30pm Hove.
28 (Fri) 1pm Cibo. 6pm JD.
March
Article on Nicaragua, World (BR: E29).
2 (Mon) Hove. FP in hospital.
3 (Tue) 7:30pm James Bowman concert St John’s Church.
5 (Thur) 1pm Douglas McFerran, actor: l’Altro. 8pm BFs.
7 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
9 (Mon) 10am The Trial initial reading. 6:30pm Gordon Brown
lecture.
10 (Tue) 11:30am Andrew Graham-Yooll. 6pm Otto Dix exhibition,
Tate Gallery. 8pm KRs.
11 (Wed) 1pm HG: Savoy. 8pm Mexican Embassy dinner.
12 (Thur) 7:30pm TV adaptation of Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori
BAFTA.
13–15 (Fri–Sun) Chewton Glen.
16 (Mon) First day shooting The Trial, Prague.
17 (Tue) 8pm Howard Barker’s A Hard Heart Almeida.
18 (Wed) 1pm Hove. 8pm SRs, MBis, KRs.
19 (Thur) 11:30am AF, HP visit Anthony Trollope’s grave Kensal
Green Cemetery (Must: 200–1). 6:30pm CFs.
20 (Fri) 1pm Ian Smith Ga.
21 (Sat) Britten’s Death in Venice CGa.
22 (Sun) 7:30pm NM Radio 3.
23 (Mon) The Trial shooting.
25 (Wed) 6:30pm John Keane, artist, Imperial War Museum.
26 (Thur) 1pm JD: Cibo.
27 (Fri) Hove.
28 (Sat) 8pm dinner Rabbi Friedlander.
29 (Sun) HJP’s 90th birthday. 8pm SGs: La Fenice.
30 (Mon) 1pm Hugh Whitemore: Cibo. 6pm Michael Custance.
31 (Tue) 7:45pm Rodney Ackland’s The Dark River New Orange Tree
Theatre, Richmond.
April
1 (Wed) Hove.
2 (Thur) 1pm MN, John Cleese: Savoy. 6:30pm Frances D’Souza, scientist
and politician.
3 (Fri) 4:30pm HG. 7:30pm Ga.

4 (Sat) 1pm Grand National lunch. 8pm EO and others.
6 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
7 (Tue) 8pm party for GW.
8 (Wed) 1pm David Leveaux, directs NM revival Almeida, HP as
Hirst: GSQ. 3:30pm Michael Custance.
9 (Thur) 11am Hilary Wainwright, editor Red Pepper. 9pm MBis.
10 (Fri) 1pm Jill Johnson: GSQ.
12 (Sun) 1pm lunch TS.
13 (Mon) Hove.
14 (Tue) 12:30pm awarded insignia of Grand Officer, the
Chilean Order of Merit, for support for the restora-
tion of democracy in Chile. 8pm RH’s Reflected Glory
Vaudeville Theatre.
15–20 (Wed–Mon) Oare.
21 (Tue) London.
22 (Wed) 5pm TA, GG. 8pm DPh, KRs.
23 (Thur) 1pm Patricia Losey. 8pm Howard Brenton’s Berlin Bertie
RC.
24 (Fri) 6pm Grant Hicks, designer, Michael Custance.
25 (Sat) 1pm Ariel Dorfman. 6:15pm Verdi’s Don Carlos Coliseum.
26 (Sun) 1pm Ga opening game.
27 (Mon) 7:15pm Tony Kushner Angels in America Cot.
28 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
29 (Wed) 1pm Hove. 6pm JD.
30 (Thur) 1pm Hugh Whitemore: l’Altro.
May
‘Blowing up the Media’, Index on Censorship, 21: 5: 2–3 (BR: E30).
1 (Fri) 1pm Hugh Whitemore: l’Altro.
2 (Sat) 8pm Margaret Atwood.
4 (Mon) 1pm lunch Ismail Merchant, James Ivory: Le Caprice.
5–8 (Tue–Fri) Prague, shooting The Trial.
9 (Sat) London.
12 (Tue) Tony Garrett stays with HP, AF. 1pm JD: l’Altro. 8pm SR.
13 (Wed) 1pm Hove. 7:30pm PEN Angus Wilson evening.
14 (Thur) 7pm George Barker reading Fitzroy Tavern. 9pm EO.
15 (Fri) 1pm German Embassy lunch Christa Wolf, author.
16 (Sat) 5:30pm TA, GG.
17 (Sun) Final day shooting The Trial.
18 (Mon) 8pm Pirandello’s Rules of the Game Almeida.
19 (Tue) 8pm Thelma Wax.
21 (Thur) Oxford Union debate.
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22 (Fri) 1pm Berlins. 7:30pm Channel 4 News (Prague, coverage The

Trial). 8pm KRs.
23 (Sat) 1:15pm SG: Halcyon. 7pm Bellini’s I Puritani CGa.
25 (Mon) 8pm Dworkins.
26 (Tue) 6:30pm CFs.
27 (Wed) 6pm Michael Custance.
28 (Thur) 8pm Israeli Embassy, Amos Oz, author.
29 (Fri) 1pm JD.
June
1 (Mon) 9:15pm BFs.
2 (Tue) 3:15pm Michael Custance.
3 (Wed) 7pm PEN AAy evening.
4 (Thur) 6pm LM.
5 (Fri) 10am Grant Hicks, production designer.
6 (Sat) Filming. 8pm KRs.
8 (Mon) 6pm Patricia Losey.
9 (Tue) Election day. HP, AF vote Labour (Must: 202). Hove. 8pm SG.
10 (Wed) 10am Grant Hicks. 6pm TA, GG.
11 (Thur) Beezling Fen.
12 (Fri) 11am Michael Custance. 8pm Roy Fuller, poet, Memorial
Evening Greenwich.
13 (Sat) 2pm John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore The Pit. 7:30pm Vanunu
evening.
15 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
16 (Tue) 7:30pm Britten’s Peter Grimes Glyndebourne.
17 (Wed) 1pm JBa: Odette’s.
18 (Thur) 1pm JD: Little Acropolis. 3pm Vanunu meeting. 6:30pm Faber
summer party. 8:30pm DJ.
19 (Fri) 10am Grant Hicks. 1pm Francis Gillen: Cibo.
20 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
21 (Sun) Ga 2 Marlborough 1870.
22 (Mon) 8pm Ian Smith, Ga cricketer, All Souls (Oxford) dinner.
23 (Tue) 1pm John Cleese: Cibo.
24 (Wed) 6pm TA, GG. 8pm KBs.
25 (Thur) 11am Wimbledon tennis. 8pm dinner Ian McEwan.
26 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
27–29 Los Angeles.
(Sat–Mon)
27 (Sat) 8pm Carol Baum, Hollywood producer.
28 (Sun) 8pm Freeds.
29 (Mon) 1pm Carol Baum.
30 (Tue) London.
July
1 (Wed) 1pm Stephen Daldry, director, RC.
2 (Thur) 6pm British Library (BL). 9pm Robert Altman’s The Player.
3 (Fri) 12:45pm JD: Groucho. 2:30pm The Trial Cot. 8:30pm
Berlins: Wilton’s.
4 (Sat) Hove.
7–20 (Tue–Mon) Corfu.
21 (Tue) London.
22 (Wed) 1pm JD. 7pm Czech Embassy.
24 (Fri) 2:30pm The Trial Pinewood Theatre.
25 (Sat) 2pm HP’s XI Guardian.
27 (Mon) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm dinner Tracy Worcester, environ-
mentalist, Imran Khan, cricketer, politician.
28 (Tue) 1pm Hove. 6pm TA, GG.
29 (Wed) Noon unveiling of Justin Mortimer’s portrait of HP
National Portrait Gallery. 3pm Michael Custance, Grant
Hicks. 9pm SGs.
31 (Fri) 1pm James Campbell-Saunders Watson, Rockingham
Castle, Market Harborough. 6pm exhibition, Nottingham.
August
1 (Sat) 7:30pm Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice Cot.
2 (Sun) 2pm Ga Great Hampden.
3 (Mon) 3pm Grant Hicks.
4 (Tue) 1pm Craig Raine, author, editor: l’Altro. 8:15pm Carlos
Fuentes, EO: GSQ.
5 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
6 (Thur) 1pm HG: Chez Moi. 7pm LM. 8pm BFs: Ivy.
7 (Fri) 12:15pm Michael Custance, SRs.
8 (Sat) Rod Williams’ No Remission Lyric Hammersmith.
10 (Mon) 1pm Ronald Knowles, critic: Cibo. 8pm SGs.
11 (Tue) 1pm Hove. 8pm Frank McGuinness’ Someone Who’ll
Watch Over Me Hampstead Theatre.
12 (Wed) 10am Meryl Streep.
13–14 (Thur–Fri) 10am Rehearsing PaT.
15 (Sat) 11am LM, DJ.
16 (Sun) 1pm Ga Tadworth.
17–18 (Mon–Tue) Rehearsing PaT.
19 (Wed) 1pm JD: l’Altro.
20–22 (Sun–Sat) Rehearsing PaT.
23–25 (Sun–Tue) Shooting PaT.
26 (Wed) 1pm David Leveaux.
27 (Thur) Chewton Glen, AF’s 60th birthday dinner.
29 (Sat) London. 1pm family lunch. 8pm KRs.
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30 (Sun) Bernhurst.
31 (Mon) 1pm Hove.
September
1 (Tue) London.
2–4 (Wed–Fri) Editing PaT.
3 (Thur) 8pm SRs, Fuentes.
4 (Fri) 1pm CBr: Groucho. 8pm April De Angelis’s Hush RC.
5 (Sat) 8:30pm RHs: Cibo.
6 (Sun) 2pm Ga Walton-on-Thames.
7 (Mon) 8pm DJ, Joyce Tenneson, photographer.
8 (Tue) 10am editing PaT.
9 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
10 (Thur) 7:30pm Alfred Brendel concert RFH.
11–12 (Fri–Sat) Amsterdam.
11 (Fri) 8pm PaT, NWO, MoL.
12 (Sat) 9pm discussion of plays.
13 (Sun) London. 6:30pm CFs.
14–15 (Mon–Tue) Dubbing PaT.
14 (Mon) 8pm GW dinner for AF.
16 (Wed) 11am PaT screening Teddington.
17 (Thur) 6pm Linda Colley, drinks.
18 (Fri) 1pm Hove.
20 (Sun) Noon Ga Sidcup.
21 (Mon) 12:45pm Hugh Whitemore: Cibo.
22 (Tue) 8:30pm KRs.
23 (Wed) 1pm KI: l’Altro. 6:30pm Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven
Empire, Leicester Square.
24 (Thur) 1pm JD: Halcyon. 7:30pm Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos
Coliseum. 10pm dinner: Ivy.
25 (Fri) 11am The Trial screening Pinewood.
27 (Sun) 1pm BFs.
28–3 Oct (Mon–Sat) Rehearsals NM.
October
2 (Fri) 8pm Euripides’ Medea Almeida.
3–6 (Sat–Tue) Hove.
5 (Mon) FP dies.
6 (Tue) FP’s funeral.
7–9 (Wed–Fri) Rehearsals.
8 (Thur) 8pm EO: Le Caprice.
10 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
12 (Mon) 10am HG. 6–8pm launch Guatemalan Association.
13 (Tue) 8pm Douglas McFerran’s Obsession Battersea. Signatory

( joint letter) ‘Travel Ban on Mikhail Gorbachev Condemned
as Abuse of Power’ (Guardian, 18; BR: H21).
14 (Wed) 8pm PEN.
15 (Thur) 7pm PaT screening BAFTA.
16 (Fri) 6pm Pauline Flanagan.
17 (Sat) 8pm SGs: La Fenice.
18 (Sun) 1pm CBr.
20 (Tue) Noon Janet Key, actress, Memorial, St Paul’s Church.
21 (Wed) Noon JD: Almeida bar.
22 (Thur) 8pm SRs.
25 (Sun) 8pm Lauren Bacall: La Fenice.
26–31 (Mon–Sat) Rehearsals, dress rehearsals, previews NM.
28 (Wed) 3pm opening of Pinter Studio, Queen Mary College.
30 (Fri) 1pm JD.
November
1 (Sun) 7:30pm KRs.
2 (Mon) 7pm press night NM. MBi profile article (Guardian, 4; BR:
G73).
3–7 (Tue–Sat) Performing NM: brings friends throughout NM run.
4 (Wed) 1pm DPh, Olga Havel: l’Altro.
8 (Sun) JG interview (Sunday Telegraph, 33; BR: G74).
8–24 (Sun–Tue) AF touring USA, Mexico.
11 (Wed) 1pm JD. 10:30pm company supper.
12 (Thur) 7:30pm private benefit performance NM.
13 (Fri) 1pm JBa: Little Acropolis.
15 (Sun) 1pm lunch RH.
16–21 (Mon–Sat) Performing NM.
16 (Mon) 5:30pm HWi.
17 (Tue) 11:15am HJP. 9pm PaT Channel 4, produced by HP,
directed by Michael Custance.
22 (Sun) 1pm BFs.
23–28 (Mon–Sat) Performing NM.
24 (Tue) Noon Harold Hobson Memorial Service. 1:15pm AF: Ivy.
27 (Fri) 1pm John Peter, theatre critic: GSQ.
28 (Sat) 12:30pm JD: l’Altro. After evening performance AF, HP to
Chewton Glen.
30 (Mon) London for performance NM.
December
Performing NM except Sundays from 1 (Tue) to 19 (Sat).
1 (Tue) 5:30pm MCC meeting.
3 (Thur) 11am tour and lunch, BL.
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7 (Mon) 1pm AF: Cibo. 2:30pm film of Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.
8 (Tue) 1pm lunch Paul Eddington, who plays Spooner, NM.
10 (Thur) 10:30am Peter Stanford, BBC Radio interview. 1pm Sam Mendes.
11 (Fri) 11am HJP. 1pm lunch: English’s, makes initial notes for M.
14 (Mon) 12:30pm JD.
15 (Tue) 1:15pm lunch Fuentes.
16 (Wed) 1pm Hugh Whitemore: Cibo.
17 (Thur) 1:15pm Faber lunch.
19 (Sat) 8pm final performance NM.
22 (Tue) 1pm JD. 5:30pm Vanunu vigil.
23 (Wed) 11am HJP. 6pm TA, GG.
25 (Fri) Family Christmas lunch. 8pm KRs.
26 (Sat) 1pm family lunch. 8pm dinner RHs: GSQ.
27 (Sun) 6:45pm CFs.
28 (Mon) Noon TA, GG.
30 (Wed) 4:30pm HG.
1993
Son Daniel cuts off contact with HP.

January
2 (Sat) 6:30pm MBis.
3 (Sun) 6:30pm KRs.
4 (Mon) 8pm SR, Elizabeth West.
5 (Tue) 1pm Bill Kenwright, producer, JD.
6 (Wed) 1pm Daniel: l’Altro. 6pm Brian Lang, Sally Brown, BL
then dinner Longfords.
7 (Thur) 11am HJP. 6pm Allan Francovich.
8 (Fri) 1pm McCrums, MBis: Cibo.
10–24 (Sun–Sun) Mauritius, Royal Palm Hotel, HP works on M
(Must: 210–11).
14 (Thur) ‘The Peterborough Column’, Daily Telegraph, reports HP
adapting An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum
1941–1943: Holocaust narrative (Sharp Cut: 376).
18 (Mon) Signatory joint letter ‘Reprisal Murders of Journalists in
Turkey’ (Independent, 16; BR: H22).
24 (Sun) London.
25 (Mon) Noon JD. 1pm rehearsal NM. Completes M second draft.
27 (Wed) Completes M. 7:30pm National Poetry Awards.
28 (Thur) NM. 8pm Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea Almeida, goes
with KR.
29 (Fri) 2pm rehearsal NM, transferred to Comedy Theatre.
February
Performing NM.
1 (Mon) 11:30am Claire Armitstead.
3 (Wed) 10am Joan Winterkorn, bookseller, Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.
Claire Armitstead interview (Guardian, Section 2: 2–3; BR: G77),
concerns M.
6 (Sat) 11am M meeting.
10 (Wed) 11am HJP.
11 (Thur) 6pm Bernard Dukore, drama critic.
12 (Fri) 11am David Suchet. 1pm JBa: l’Altro.
14 (Sun) 8pm SRs.
15 (Mon) Ian Holm: Le Caprice.
19 (Fri) 1pm LM: Balzac.
21 (Sun) 3pm Sue Dunkley art exhibition. 8pm KRs.
23 (Tue) 1pm Ian Smith, Ga: La Fenice.
25 (Thur) 10:30pm dinner Paul Eddington: Garrick.
26 (Fri) 11am Israeli Embassy.
28 (Sun) 6pm John Keane, political thinker. 7:30pm poetry reading.
March
Performing NM.
1 (Mon) 10am BBC filming ‘British Cinema in the Sixties’ (BR: K33).
2 (Tue) 10pm Julie Christie, Rana and Patrick Seale: Ivy.
4 (Thur) 10am Joan Winterkorn.
5 (Fri) 11am HJP.
7 (Sun) 1pm FWy. 6:30pm KRs.
9 (Tue) 8pm Douglas McFerran.
12 (Fri) 6pm Kurdish reception ICA.
13 (Sat) After matinee NM, MBr party.
15 (Mon) Morning Emily Raymond, Joanna Roth auditions. 1:15pm SG:
Boyd’s. Evening dinner Emma Tennant.
17 (Wed) 1pm nominees Olivier Awards lunch.
18 (Thur) 11am Jennifer Ehle audition.
21 (Sun) 7:30pm Britten’s War Requiem Royal Albert Hall.
22 (Mon) 1pm JD: Cibo.
24 (Wed) 10:15pm Thelma Wax: Drones.
26 (Fri) 1pm KB: GSQ. 10pm Arthur Miller party, RHs.
28 (Sun) 6:45pm KRs. ‘Archbishop Romero’s Ghost can be Avenged’
(Observer, 24; BR: E31).
29 (Mon) HJP birthday. 1pm lunch, father and others. 10pm NM supper.
Letter ‘U.S. Should Admit Role in El Salvador’ (Ottawa Citizen,
A11; BR: F19).
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30 (Tue) 1pm JD: La Fenice.

31 (Wed) 1pm CM, Suchets: La Fenice.
April
Performing NM.
1 (Thur) Following NM matinee, dinner Longford.
4 (Sun) 8pm Ga party.
10 (Sat) Following NM matinee, dinner SGs: Ivy.
11 (Sun) 1pm NM lunch. 6pm Derek Jarman’s film Wittgenstein ICA.
13 (Tue) TS at NT.
14 (Wed) 1pm HJP. 5pm ED, Naipauls.
16 (Fri) 11am David Mamet.
17 (Sat) 8pm Mamets.
18 (Sun) Noon ED. 1pm lunch David Mamet. 6pm Olivier Awards.
19 (Mon) 1pm JD.
23 (Fri) 10am HG. 12:30pm EO: Cibo.
25 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
28 (Wed) Signatory joint letter ‘Turkish Responsibility for Kurdish Fears ...’
(Independent, 21; BR: H23).
30 (Fri) 1pm HJP.
May
Poem ‘It Is Here’, Turret Bookshop (BR: C27b). Revises M.
2 (Sun) 8pm JBa birthday party.
3 (Mon) 10pm TS: GSQ.
4 (Tue) 10:20am The Trial screening. 6:30pm Nelson Mandela
reception, then dinner EO: Ivy.
5 (Wed) 1pm SG: La Fenice. 10pm NM company dinner: Le Caprice.
7 (Fri) 11am Richard Imison Memorial Service (St James). 5:30pm
LM.
8 (Sat) Final performance NM.
9 (Sun) ‘Reply to Michael Coveney’ regarding friendship with SG
(Observer, 46; BR: F20).
10 (Mon) 7:15pm TS’s Arcadia NT, then dinner TS, Felicity Kendal:
Orso.
12 (Wed) 1pm HW: La Fenice. 8pm CFs.
14 (Fri) 6pm MBi.
15 (Sat) 8pm dinner HW.
17 (Mon) 1pm JD: GSQ. 3pm production meeting Mamet’s
Oleanna (O).
18–22 (Tue–Sat) To Summer Lodge, Dorset, holiday.
23 (Sun) Ga Lloyd’s Register.
24 (Mon) 10am first rehearsal O, RC, HP directing. 8pm KRs.

29 (Sat) Noon HJP. 8pm RHs.
31 (Mon) 2pm rehearsal.
June
Film The Trial general release and published by Faber (BR: B8). Directing
David Mamet’s O RC.
2 (Wed) 8pm JBa, JE.
3 (Thur) Noon JD.
5 (Sat) 1:30pm Michael Frayn and Claire Tomalin’s wedding.
6 (Sun) Ga Barnes Breakers.
8 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
9 (Wed) 7:45pm O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock Albery Theatre.
10 (Thur) 8pm Stoppis.
12 (Sat) 8pm Hugh Whitemore birthday.
13 (Sun) Ga Godalming. 8pm Longfords.
14 (Mon) 8:30pm BFs.
15 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
17 (Thur) 8pm dinner NM: Le Caprice.
19 (Sat) 8pm SR birthday party.
21 (Mon) 1pm SG. Letter ‘The Trial Upstaged’ (Times, 15g; BR: F21).
22–24 O dress rehearsal, first preview.
(Tue–Thur)
27 (Sun) 1pm HJP. 8pm SGs.
30 (Wed) 8pm press night O.
July
Involved with O.
2 (Fri) 8pm party for FWy.
4 (Sun) 2pm Ga Pylewell.
5 (Mon) 1pm HG. 8pm dinner KBs.
6 (Tue) 6pm LM. 8pm KRs.
7 (Wed) After O performance, Mamets: GSQ.
8 (Thur) 8pm EO.
9 (Fri) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm Rattigan’s Separate Tables Albery Theatre,
then SGs: Ivy.
10 (Sat) 8pm Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen CGa.
11 (Sun) 2pm Ga Old Whits.
12 (Mon) 1pm JD. 7:45pm Miller’s The Last Yankee Young Vic. 10pm Rana
Seale.
13 (Tue) 11am HJP.
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15–16 (Thur–Fri) To Nottingham, AF receives honorary doctorate.
16 (Fri) 6pm KRs.
17–26 (Sat–Mon) Le Cap Estel, near Monaco.
19 (Mon) Letter (Times, 15e; BR: F22), on Korea, and maltreatment
of political prisoners.
27 (Tue) London.
28 (Wed) Noon lunch JD. 8pm dinner GW.
30 (Fri) 4:30pm Channel 4 interview on Sir Donald Wolfit,
shown 3 May 1994 (BR: K35). 6pm cast O. 8pm FF.
31 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
August
Involved with O and M.
2 (Mon) 1:30pm David Leveaux, directs M: Cibo.
3 (Tue) 3:30pm M model. 6pm Gaia Servadio. 8pm British
Museum.
4 (Wed) 11:15am first rehearsal M. 10:15pm James Fox and oth-
ers: GSQ.
5 (Thur) 10:30pm SGs: Ivy.
6 (Fri) 3pm HG.
9 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
12 (Thur) 4pm poster meeting M Almeida.
13 (Fri) 7pm CFs.
14 (Sat) Bernhurst.
15 (Sun) HJP.
16 (Mon) 3pm O understudies.
17–20 (Tue–Fri) 11am M rehearsals.
18 (Wed) 8pm Mexican Embassy dinner.
19 (Thur) 1pm JD: Le Caprice.
20 (Fri) 1:15pm Carey Perloff Fredericks. 8pm KRs.
23–25 (Mon–Wed) Rehearsals M.
23 (Mon) O moves to Bath.
26 (Thur) 1:35pm meets AF in Cornwall.
28 (Sat) London.
29 (Sun) Bernhurst.
30 (Mon) O, Oxford.
31 (Tue) London.
Autumn
‘A Note on Shakespeare’, Granta, 59: 252–4 (written in 1951) (BR: E32).
September
Involved with M.
1–4 (Wed–Sat) M previews.
4 (Sat) Francis Gillen.
5 (Sun) 6pm Steve Grant, journalist.
6 (Mon) 1pm HJP. Fourth preview M. First edition, Faber (BR:
A51).
7 (Tue) 7pm press night M (Must: 211–12).
9 (Thur) 2pm Mel Gussow. 6pm JD.
10 (Fri) 1pm Chilean Embassy wreath for Victor Jara, theatre
director, poet.
11 (Sat) 7:45pm CFs.
12 (Sun) Ga Oxted.
13 (Mon) Noon BL reception; HP donates 60 boxes of manu-
scripts. 6:30pm GW drinks.
14 (Tue) 3pm O.
15 (Wed) 7:30pm O Duke of York’s Theatre. Steve Grant inter-
view (Time Out, 16–19; BR: G78).
16 (Thur) 4pm M meeting. 6pm O company.
17 (Fri) 1:15pm SG: La Fenice. 6pm M company.
18 (Sat) 1pm lunch AF: Le Caprice. 8pm SRs, Doris Lessing: Gay
Hussar.
19 (Sun) 1pm Ga Sidcup. ‘British Cinema in the Sixties’ BBC2,
first broadcast, 8:05–9:05pm (BR: K33).
20 (Mon) OT rehearsal for Birmingham Rep. run. 11am JD. 1pm
Freeds: Cibo. 7:30pm O party. 10pm SR party.
21 (Tue) 1pm JBa.
22 (Wed) 1pm HJP.
23–27 (Thur–Mon) Dublin. International Writers’ Festival.
23 (Thur) 8pm interview with MBi, Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin
(BR: G79).
27 (Mon) London. 8pm KBs: Cibo.
28 (Tue) Noon RH: Cibo.
29 (Wed) 8pm M. 10pm IH, Anna Massey, David Leveaux: Granita.
30 (Thur) 1pm MW. 8:30pm film The Fugitive.
October
Involved with M.
1–2 (Fri–Sat) Rome.
3 (Sun) 4:15pm rehearsal M. 5:30pm MW.
5 (Tue) 1pm Penelope Prentice: GSQ.
6 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8:30pm Michael Cristofer: Orso.
7 (Thur) 6:30pm O Duke of York’s Theatre. 8pm MG.
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8 (Fri) 1pm JD. 7:30pm OP The London Academy of Music and

Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
9 (Sat) Grand Hotel, Brighton.
10 (Sun) 3pm FP’s Memorial Stone. 8pm TPs: Cibo.
11 (Mon) 10:45am Russian Embassy.
12 (Tue) 8pm M, PEN benefit performance. 10:30pm RHs: Granita.
Letter ‘How the Law Lies in Russia’ (Guardian, 91; BR: F23).
14 (Thur) 8pm SGs.
15–17 (Fri–Sun) Chewton Glen.
18 (Mon) 6:30pm Hugh Thomas drinks: Garrick. 8pm KRs.
20 (Wed) 1pm KB: La Fenice. 8pm Warners.
22 (Fri) 8pm Brearleys. First performance OT Birmingham Rep.
23 (Sat) 1pm HJP.
25 (Mon) 10:30am RC meeting. 12:30pm GV: GSQ. 7:15pm David
Hare’s The Absence of War NT.
26 (Tue) 8pm Mexican Embassy.
28 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
29 (Fri) 1pm Bernard Murat, director: Le Caprice.
30 (Sat) Last night M Almeida.
31 (Sun) 12:30pm KRs.
November
1 (Mon) 10am US Embassy Cuban delegation. Noon David Leveaux: Ivy.
2 (Tue) 1:15pm SG. 5pm dress rehearsal M Comedy Theatre.
3 (Wed) 7pm Detection Club dinner.
4 (Thur) 7:30pm M opening Comedy Theatre (Must: 212).
5 (Fri) 12:30pm Patricia Losey: GSQ.
6 (Sat) 1pm BFs.
8 (Mon) 1pm John Lahr: l’Altro. 7:30pm O Duke of York Theatre.
9 (Tue) 11:30am DP.
10 (Wed) 1pm HG: Méridien.
12 (Fri) 1:15pm SG: La Fenice. 3pm Re. 8pm SRs.
13 (Sat) 4pm Wagner’s Die Meistersinger CGa.
15 (Mon) 12:30pm HJP. 6pm JBa. 8pm KRs.
16 (Tue) 8pm DP: Le Caprice.
18 (Thur) OT Birmingham Rep.
19 (Fri) 8pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
20 (Sat) Noon SG.
21 (Sun) 8pm Was.
22 (Mon) 10pm Roy Strong, art historian, curator, and wife Julia Trevelyan
Oman, designer: Ivy.
23 (Tue) 11am DJ. 10pm Tony Garrett.
24 (Wed) 1pm CB: GSQ. 8:15pm DPh: Orsino.
25 (Thur) 11am NH.
26 (Fri) 4pm DJ. 6:30pm Sam Mendes, Richard Eyre. 10pm RHs:
Orsino.
27 (Sat) 8pm George Gershwin’s Crazy for You Prince Edward Theatre.
29 (Mon) 12:15pm Evening Standard Theatre Awards. 8pm KRs, CFs.
30 (Tue) 1pm Denis Lawson, actor, Michelle Fairley, actress: GSQ. Appear
in O and subsequently Ashes to Ashes (AA).
December
1 (Wed) Noon HJP. 8pm Ian Smith: La Fenice.
2 (Thur) 1pm JD: La Fenice.
3–9 (Fri–Thur) New York.
4 (Sat) 1pm Daniel Wilson. 5pm The Trial. 8pm Barbara
Epstein.
5 (Sun) 2pm matinee, Wendy Wasserstein plays. 8pm Bob
Gottlieb.
6 (Mon) 10:30am initial rehearsal NM. 1pm Jason Robards,
Christopher Plummer. 6pm DJ.
7 (Tue) 12:30pm Penelope Prentice, Jean Lafitte. 3pm NM
rehearsal. 8pm Lauren Bacall party.
8 (Wed) 11:45am on Charlie Rose TV show.
9 (Thur) London.
10 (Fri) 5:30pm JD. 8pm Steven Berkoff’s solo show Garrick
Theatre. 10pm Berkoff: Ivy.
12 (Sun) 1pm lunch David Suchet and wife.
13 (Mon) 10:30am O rehearsal. 6:15pm Sam Mendes, Donmar
Warehouse.
14–16 (Tue–Thur) 1pm O rehearsals.
14 (Tue) 7pm nets.
15 (Wed) 8pm Warners.
18 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
19 (Sun) 6pm RH. 9:20pm The Trial BBC2.
20–24 (Mon–Fri) Rehearsals O.
20 (Mon) 6:30pm Sam Mendes, Donmar Warehouse.
21 (Tue) 10am HG. 8pm Molière’s The School for Wives
Almeida.
23 (Thur) 4pm HJP. 9pm IH, Penelope Wilton party.
24 (Fri) Poem ‘God’ (TLS, 21; BR: C30).
26 (Sun) 1pm family lunch.
27–30 (Mon–Thur) Rehearsals.
27 (Mon) 8pm SGs: GSQ.
28 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
30 (Thur) 8pm M. 10pm M cast party: Ivy.
31 (Fri) To Inverness.
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January
1 (Sat) M ends run.
4 (Tue) London. 7pm screening Middlemarch BAFTA.
5–7 (Wed–Fri) Rehearsals O.
5 (Wed) 6:30pm NH. 10pm SGs: Ivy.
6 (Thur) 1:30pm Sam Mendes. 8pm FF party.
9 (Sun) 1pm SRs party.
10 (Mon) 1pm JD: Ivy. O dress rehearsal.
11 (Tue) 7:30pm O first performance, new cast, Duke of York’s
Theatre.
12 (Wed) 11am NH.
13 (Thur) Leeds, hears Britten’s Gloriana.
14 (Fri) London.
15 (Sat) 11am Sam Mendes, director BP, Tom Piper, designer. 8pm KRs.
17 (Mon) Noon HJP.
18 (Tue) 7:30pm press night O.
19 (Wed) 8pm Sam Mendes’ Cabaret Donmar Warehouse.
20 (Thur) 6pm Sam Mendes, BP details Ly. 8pm SRs.
21 (Fri) 1pm JD: Orsino.
22 (Sat) ‘Losey and Friends’ (Times, 15d; BR: F24).
23 (Sun) 1pm RH: GSQ.
24 (Mon) Noon KR. 8pm JBa: Orsino.
26 (Wed) Norwich, 7pm public discussion and reading.
28 (Fri) New York. 8pm sees NM DJ production.
29 (Sat) To Mexico City.
31 (Mon) TV interview. 9pm dinner Fuentes.
February
1 (Tue) 1pm British Embassy lunch. 7pm poetry reading.
2–4 (Wed–Fri) Oaxaca, Mexico (Must: 230–1).
5–8 (Sat–Tue) Puerto Vallarta.
9 (Wed) TV Mexico City. Glyndebourne correspondence regarding
directing Britten’s Owen Wingrave (HPA).
11 (Fri) London.
12 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
13 (Sun) 8:15pm RHs: Cibo.
14 (Mon) 1:30pm JD: Cibo.
15 (Tue) 8:45pm John Pilger’s Death of a Nation NFT.
16 (Wed) 1:15pm SG: Halcyon.
17 (Thur) Noon HJP. 8pm David Hare’s adaptation of Brecht’s Life of
Galileo Almeida.
18 (Fri) BBC interview with JG. 12:30pm RH. 2:30pm BP rehearsal.

22 (Tue) BP rehearsal. 12:45pm JD. 6pm Anna Ford.
23 (Wed) 2pm rehearsal. 8pm CFs.
24 (Thur) Noon HG: Orsino. 6pm MBi.
25 (Fri) 10:30am rehearsal.
26 (Sat) 6pm KB. 8pm FWy and others.
27 (Sun) 6pm Jill Johnson.
28 (Mon) 4pm film Schindler’s List. 6pm Stephen Spender. Preparatory
notes on Lolita directed by Adrian Lyne.
March
1–2 (Tue–Wed), 4 (Fri) O.
1 (Tue) 9:30pm supper Denis Lawson, in O.
2 (Wed) Noon HJP. 7:30pm Detection Club.
3 (Thur) 7:30pm Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen RC.
4 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
5 (Sat) Stockholm, performance M.
6 (Sun) London.
7 (Mon) 6:30pm Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Coliseum.
8 (Tue) 2pm run-through BP. 8pm SRs.
9 (Wed) BP.
12 (Sat) 1pm Michael Colgan, organizer Dublin Pinter
Festival (Billington: 354). 8pm Elizabeth Lady Glen-
conner, mother of Emma Tennant, 80th birthday
dinner.
14 (Mon) 1pm SG: Halcyon.
17 (Thur) 1pm John Casey. BP press night Ly.
18 (Fri) 6pm NH drinks NT.
19–21 (Sat–Mon) Paris.
19 (Sat) 9pm Le Retour (H) Théâtre de L’Atelier.
21 (Mon) 1pm British Council lunch. 8:30pm discusses The
Servant with Michael Ciment.
22 (Tue) London. 6pm DP: Groucho. Signatory joint letter
‘Radio Daze’ (Guardian, Features, 23; BR: H25), deplor-
ing close of BBC Radio’s literary unit.
23 (Wed) 1pm JBa.
24 (Thur) 1pm KI: La Fenice. 6pm HG. 8pm GSQ.
25 (Fri) 11am JD. 1pm KB, Michael Pennington: Cibo. 7pm
Janáček’s Katya Kabanova CGa, with KRs.
26 (Sat) 10:30am Writers’ Day. 7pm BP cast. 8pm CFs.
28 (Mon) 6:30pm ED. 8pm dinner KBs, BFs.
29 (Tue) HJP’s 92nd birthday. 6pm HW.
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31 (Thur) Noon Adrian Lyne regarding Lolita.
April
4 (Mon) Returns to London.
5 (Tue) 3pm sees film In the Name of the Father.
6 (Wed) 1pm JD: Le Caprice.
7 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
9 (Sat) Strongs.
11 (Mon) Cannadines.
12 (Tue) 12:30pm RH. 8:30pm SG: La Fenice. Interviewee in ‘Gielgud:
Scenes from Nine Decades’, BBC1 Omnibus (BR: K34).
13 (Wed) Amsterdam. 7:30pm M. 99 Poems in Translation: An Anthology
Selected by HP, Faber (BR: H24a).
14 (Thur) London. 7:15pm Germinal BAFTA.
15 (Fri) 8pm Ga dinner.
16 (Sat) Noon HJP.
18 (Mon) 1pm Patricia Losey: Hilaire. 8pm Turgenev’s A Month in the
Country Albery Theatre.
19 (Tue) 12:30pm McEwans.
20 (Wed) 7pm Red Pepper meeting. 8pm KRs.
21 (Thur) 1pm Rana Seale. 8pm dinner GW.
22 (Fri) 12:30pm KR.
25 (Mon) 4pm HG. 8pm SRs, Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
26 (Tue) Lunch JD. 6pm Fintan O’Toole, journalist.
27 (Wed) 6pm Four Weddings and a Funeral Odeon Leicester Square.
28 (Thur) 7:30pm Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers Coliseum.
29 (Fri) 4:30pm MBi. 7:30pm Bach concert, St John’s Church.
30 (Sat) 6pm RH. 7:30pm cast supper BP. Fintan O’Toole interview (Irish
Times, Living and Loving Section, 3; BR: G81).
May
Works on screenplay of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (Sharp Cut: 350–63).
2–21 (Mon–Sat) First HP Festival, Gate Theatre, Dublin, with performances
of three pairs of plays (short paired with long), over three
weeks: DW and B; OFR and OT; L (directed by HP; this
production later transferred to NT) and M.
2 (Mon) Dublin season opens. 8:30pm B preview.
3 (Tue) Noon HJP. 7:30pm Index of Censorship meeting. ‘Without
Walls: Celebration of Sir Donald Wolfit’ presented on
Channel 4, 9–9:30pm (BR: K35). Fintan O’Toole interview
(Irish Times, Arts Section, 10 [City edition]; BR: G82).
4 (Wed) 1pm JD: Cibo. 6:30pm RH.
5 (Thur) 1pm SG: Halcyon. 6:30pm DW opens Dublin.

6 (Fri) Works on Lolita. 1pm Ian McEwan: Orsino.
7–21 (Sat–Sat) In Dublin.
7 (Sat) 6:30pm DW. 8:30pm B.
8 (Sun) 1pm lunch Michael Colgan.
9 (Mon) 1pm L rehearsal, OT preview.
10 (Tue) OT opens.
12 (Thur) 6:30pm OFR opens.
14 (Sat) 8pm John Peter.
15 (Sun) L run-through.
16 (Mon) 8:30pm preview M.
17 (Tue) M opens directed by KR.
19 (Thur) 6:30pm L opens, directed by HP (Must: 233).
20 (Fri) 1pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
21 (Sat) London.
23 (Mon) Noon JBa: Jara. 8pm SGs.
24 (Tue) Noon Noam Chomsky, John Pilger Almeida. 6pm JD.
25 (Wed) Noon HJP. 7pm Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro CGa.
26 (Thur) Lord’s, Middlesex v Warwickshire. 7pm RADA dinner.
27 (Fri) 6pm Stephen Fay, journalist. 8pm CB.
28 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
29 (Sun) 1pm family lunch.
31 (Tue) 1pm JD: Orsino.
June
1 (Wed) 1pm Ben Okri, Nigerian writer, l’Altro. 6pm Stephen Daldry.
7pm Warners. ‘The New Cold War’ (Red Pepper, Green Socialism,
1: 13; BR: E33).
2 (Thur) Works on Lolita.
3 (Fri) 2:30pm Jill Johnson: Cibo. 7:30pm Jean Cocteau’s Les Parents
Terribles NT, with KRs.
6 (Mon) 1:15pm SG. 8pm CFs.
7 (Tue) 8pm dinner Longford, House of Lords.
8 (Wed) Lolita. 7:30pm Rossini’s Mose in Egitto CGa.
9 (Thur) Noon HJP. Letter regarding Schindler’s List (New York Review of
Books, 60; BR: F25).
10 (Fri) 1:15pm CBr: Le Caprice.
11 (Sat) Final performance O Duke of York’s Theatre.
13 (Mon) 1pm Francis Gillen. 4pm NT meeting. 8:30pm Damian and
Paloma Fraser: Ivy.
14 (Tue) 1pm JD: Belvedere. 4pm picket, then delegation Turkish Embassy.
8pm KRs.
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15 (Wed) Lolita. 6pm drinks party for Damian and Paloma Fraser.
9pm RHs: Orsino.
17–18 (Fri–Sat) Ilkley Literary Festival.
18 (Sat) 4pm reading of W.S. Graham poetry. Returns to London.
19 (Sun) 2pm Ga 2 Marlborough 1870.
20 (Mon) 11am BBC, Reggie Smith interview. 9:30pm reception
Buckingham Palace.
21 (Thur) 7–9pm House of Commons, Vanunu meeting.
22 (Wed) 7:30pm dinner for Nadine Gordimer, Oxford (Billington:
372).
23 (Thur) 8pm Richard Norton-Taylor and John McGrath’s Half the
Picture Tricycle Theatre.
24 (Fri) Lolita.
26 (Sun) 2pm Ga Shipton-under-Wychwood.
27 (Mon) 6:30pm Jill Johnson drinks.
28 (Tue) 11:30pm HG. 1pm RH: Cibo. 8pm Glengarry Glen Ross
Donmar Warehouse.
29 (Wed) Noon Eric Kahane. 8:30pm Carlos Fuentes.
July
1 (Fri) Finishes first draft Lolita.
2 (Sat) To Pylewell, New Forest.
3 (Sun) Ga Pylewell.
4 (Mon) London. 8pm family dinner.
5 (Thur) Noon HJP. 8pm KRs.
6–7 Travels to St Andrews. AF receives honorary doctorate.
(Wed–Thur)
8 (Fri) London. 8pm David Storey’s Home Wyndham’s Theatre.
9 (Sat) 8pm KBs.
11 (Mon) 6pm John Miller, RR’s biographer.
12 (Tue) 1pm Berlins. 6pm BL party. 8pm Longfords: White Tower.
13 (Wed) 6:30pm attends visit of Kurdish MPs, House of Lords. 8pm SGs.
15 (Fri) 1pm Mel Gussow. 6pm Susan Hollis Merritt, The Pinter Review,
bibliographer. 7:45pm FWy.
18 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
19 (Tue) 7:30pm BP.
20 (Wed) 10:30am Susan Hollis Merritt. 5pm Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
Onegin Glyndebourne.
21 (Thur) Lord’s, England v South Africa.
24 (Sun) 2pm Ga Beddington.
25 (Mon) 3pm Susan Hollis Merritt, BL (Must: 219).
26 (Tue) 1pm MG: Cibo.
27 (Wed) 1pm JD: Belvedere. 8pm KRs.

31 (Sun) 2pm Ga Hampden.
August
1 (Mon) Noon HJP. 8pm bridge.
3–13 (Wed–Sat) Cap Estel.
14 (Sun) London.
18 (Thur) 3:30pm HJP.
19 (Fri) 5:15pm Nick Starr, producer, NT.
20 (Sat) 7:45pm KRs.
21 (Sun) 2pm HP’s XI v Ian McKinnon’s (property developer) XI.
22 (Mon) 6pm TA, GG.
24 (Wed) 8pm Wildes’ Lady Windermere’s Fan Albery Theatre. 10pm
Ariel Dorfman. Second draft of Lolita.
25 (Thur) 1:30pm Derek Jacobi, Duncan Weldon: Luigi’s. 8pm
dinner Jung Chang novelist.
26–28 (Fri–Sun) With AF revisits Caerhays and Mevagissey, Cornwall.
29 (Mon) London.
30 (Tue) 6pm Stephen Daldry.
31 (Wed) 1pm RH. 8pm Bryan Robson (Daniel’s schoolmaster): Cibo.
September
1 (Thur) Third draft of Lolita.
2 (Fri) Noon HJP. 8pm KBs: Cibo.
3–4 (Sat–Sun) Bernhurst.
5 (Mon) 7:30pm Miller’s Broken Glass Ly.
6 (Tue) 1:15pm SG: Halcyon. 8pm SRs.
7 (Wed) 1pm JD: La Fenice. 8:30pm Mexican Embassy.
8 (Thur) 6pm Vic Marks, Scyld Berry, cricket journalists. 8pm KRs.
9 (Fri) 1pm Thelma Wax: Cibo. 8:30pm Damian and Paloma
Fraser: GSQ.
10 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
11 (Sun) 1pm Ga Oxted.
12 (Mon) 8pm dinner Nadine Gordimer.
13–18 (Tue–Sun) Los Angeles.
19 (Mon) 1pm JD.
20 (Tue) 8pm Spenders.
21 (Wed) 1pm Ian Smith: La Fenice.
22 (Thur) Noon HJP. 8pm CFs.
24 (Sat) 7:30pm bridge. Letter ‘U.S. Troops’ Ambiguous Role’
(Guardian, Features: 21; BR: F26).
26 (Mon) Fourth draft of Lolita.
27 (Tue) 1pm JBa: Little Acropolis. 8pm DJ: Orsino.
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28 (Wed) 8pm J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World Almeida.
29 (Thur) 8pm RHs: Pegasus.
30 (Fri) 1pm CM: La Fenice. Signatory joint letter ‘Vanunu Anniversary’
(Independent, Comment, 17; BR: H26).
October
1 (Sat) 8pm EO: Cibo.
3 (Mon) 6:30pm SR drinks for publication of East, West. 7:30pm Bach
concert, St John’s Church.
5 (Wed) 1pm JD: Belvedere. 8pm DP’s 75th birthday.
7 (Fri) Cardiff Festival. 8pm MoL reading.
8 (Sat) Cheltenham, AF lecture.
9 (Sun) 1pm Berlins.
10 (Mon) 1pm Ian McEwan. 8pm KRs.
11 (Tue) 9:30am delegation to US Embassy over Cuba. 8pm Freeds: Cibo.
12 (Wed) HJP to nursing home.
13 (Thur) 1pm CF: Orsino.
14 (Fri) 1pm Donald Freed: La Fenice. 8pm Venedict Yerofeyev’s Moscow
Stations Garrick Theatre.
15 (Sat) 1pm BFs. 8pm Vanunu evening.
17 (Mon) Noon Alan Jenkins, FF. 7pm Massenet’s Don Quixote Coliseum.
18 (Tue) 11am HJP.
19 (Wed) 11:30am poetry workshop. 6pm lobbying for Criminal Justice
Bill.
20 (Thur) 10:15am Central Lobby, House of Commons. 11am Foreign
Office, Cuba. 1pm GV: La Fenice. 6pm TA, GG. 8pm KRs.
22 (Sat) 8pm SRs.
23 (Sun) 8:30pm SG birthday dinner.
24 (Mon) 7pm Dennis Potter’s Message for Posterity BAFTA.
26 (Wed) 11am HJP. 6pm Chris Hudgins, Steve Gale.
27 (Thur) Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney Almeida.
28 (Fri) 8pm TPs.
31 (Mon) 1pm lunch for AF Heinemann’s.
November
1 (Tue) 11am Dennis Potter Memorial Service, St James’s
Church, Piccadilly. 8:15pm SG: La Fenice.
2–4 (Wed–Fri) Flu.
5 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
7–10 (Mon–Thur) Brighton.
7 (Mon) Grand Hotel, Brighton.
9 (Wed) Noon HJP.
10 (Thur) London.
12 (Sat) 7pm Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette CGa.

13 (Sun) 9pm SGs: Orsino.
14–18 (Mon–Fri) Rehearsals L Cot.
14 (Mon) 8pm RHs: White Tower.
15 (Tue) 1:15pm Duncan Weldon, RH: Luigi’s. 6:30pm recep-
tion for Bishop of Jerusalem. 8pm EO.
16 (Wed) 1:15pm JD: Ivy.
17 (Thur) 6:30pm film thriller Look Me In The Eye.
21–24 (Mon–Thur) Involved with L.
22 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
23 (Wed) 2pm SG.
25 (Fri) Noon HJP then to Chewton Glen.
26–27 (Sat–Sun) Chewton Glen.
28 (Mon) London. 8pm party for GW.
29 (Tue) 1pm RH. 5:45pm Berlins see L.
30 (Wed) 5:45pm L. 7:30pm Strongs.
December
1 (Thur) 12:30pm honorary degree University of East London. 8pm KR,
EO French House.
2 (Fri) Preston for ‘Art from Conflict’ meeting.
3 (Sat) London. 8pm FWy.
4 (Sun) 8pm Vanya on 42nd Street Curzon cinema.
5 (Mon) 7pm Longfords, MB.
6 (Tue) 5:45pm L. 8pm A.S. Byatt party.
7 (Wed) 1pm John McGrath: Cibo.
8 (Thur) 8pm Warners.
9 (Fri) 11am HJP in nursing home. 6pm Ga.
10 (Sat) 5pm J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls Ald. 8pm KRs.
11 (Sun) 1:15pm SG: Halcyon.
12 (Mon) 1:30pm writers’ workshop NT. 8pm Albee’s Three Tall Women
Wyndham’s Theatre.
13 (Tue) 1pm RH. 8pm Fuentes.
14 (Wed) 6:30pm Red Pepper meeting. 9pm TPs: Orsino.
15 (Thur) 12:30pm Jill Johnson: Cibo. 8:30pm SGs: La Fenice.
16 (Fri) Noon DP: Wellington. 1pm Barry Foster: Le Caprice.
17 (Sat) 8pm SRs.
18 (Sun) 1pm John Casey. 8pm Fitzgeralds: Orsino.
19 (Mon) Noon HJP Hove. 7:30pm Verdi’s La Traviata CGa.
20 (Tue) 6pm party MBis.
21 (Wed) 7:30pm Winsome Pinnock’s Leave Taking Cot.
23 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
25 (Sun) Christmas family lunch.
26 (Mon) 1pm lunch Fitzgeralds. Dinner GSQ.
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27 (Tue) 1pm HW. 7:15pm Cinderella QEH.

28 (Wed) 8pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
29 (Thur) 1pm CB. 8pm SGs.
30 (Fri) Noon HJP. 8pm dinner Seales.
31 (Sat) Party with SGs.
1995
January
1 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
3 (Tue) 1pm CBr: Ivy.
5–9 Barcelona.
(Thur–Mon)
10 (Tue) 9:30am London conference on Central America.
11 (Wed) 1pm Simon Curtis, director: Halcyon. 6pm MBi.
12 (Thur) Poem ‘Don’t look’ (BR: C32).
13 (Fri) 11am Chichester. 9pm Hugh Thomas: La Galicia (BR: F27).
14 (Sat) 11am Dulwich Art Gallery. 8pm CFs.
16 (Mon) Noon demo for Ken Saro-Wiwa, author, sentenced to death by
Nigerian military junta.
17 (Tue) Noon HJP. 6:30pm Nicolas Poussin exhibition, Royal Academy.
18 (Wed) 11am Aglika Markova, Bulgarian translator. 6pm Helena Kaut-
Howson, Polish-born British director. 8pm SRs, Michael and
Mimi Pakenham.
19 (Thur) 1pm FWy: La Fenice. J.B. Priestley’s Dangerous Corner Whitehall
Theatre.
20 (Fri) 11am Horacio Buscaglia, Uruguayan director. 8pm KRs.
22 (Sun) 6:30pm John Rees. Signatory joint letter regarding Vanunu
(BR: H28).
23 (Mon) 5pm La Reine Margot Curzon cinema. Correspondence regard-
ing RH’s Taking Sides (TSi, HPA): HP will direct.
25 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson. 5:30pm ED. 8pm John Wells dinner for
Stephen Spender.
26 (Thur) 8:30pm KRs.
27 (Fri) 10am DJ.
29 (Sun) 1pm Hugh Thomas, Whitemores, DJ.
30 (Mon) 3pm L planning meeting. 6:30pm visits Tristan Bates Theatre,
AB’s memorial to his son.
31 (Tue) 1pm JD. 7:30pm with Stephen Daldry sees Sarah Kane’s
Blasted RC Upstairs.
February
2 (Thur) 11am HJP.
3 (Fri) 1:30pm Helena Kaut-Howson, Julie Christie.
6 (Mon) 5pm HG. 6pm AF, HP reading opening Tristan Bates Theatre.
7–11 (Tue–Sat) L rehearsal BBC.
7 (Tue) 6:30pm Ned Chaillet, MB. 9pm Jill Johnson’s party.
8 (Wed) 7:30pm sees C. Pritchard/Kaut-Howson’s Full Moon Young
Vic.
10 (Fri) Noon DP’s funeral.
12 (Sun) Correspondence regarding Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry
Men (Twelve, HPA): HP will direct.
13 (Mon) 5:30pm Alastair Niven, President English PEN.
14–16 L edit.
(Tue–Thur)
14 (Tue) 6pm Poets’ Corner Westminster Abbey unveiling Oscar
Wilde Memorial. 8pm KRs.
16 (Thur) SG’s Cell Mates Albery Theatre.
17 (Fri) 6pm tennis. Letter published TLS (BR: F28).
18 (Sat) 8pm CFs.
20 (Mon) 1:30pm SG: Halcyon.
21 (Tue) 1pm JD: Orsino. 7:30pm Puccini’s La Bohème CGa.
22 (Wed) 11am Takis Fotopoulos, Greek political philosopher.
4:30pm Duncan Weldon. 7:30pm Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s
Choice Cot.
24 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
27 (Mon) 1pm Maureen Lipman, actress, lunch for Stephen Spender.
28 (Tue) 7pm Hamlet Hackney Empire.
March
3 (Fri) 10:30am Alastair Niven. 8pm dinner Fitzgeralds.
4 (Sat) Noon HJP. 8pm KRs.
6 (Mon) 10am dubbing L. 8pm SGs.
7 (Tue) 8pm EO.
8 (Wed) 1:15pm Laura Pels, New York philanthropist: Ritz. 8pm
dinner for Lauren Bacall.
9–10 (Thur–Fri) Auditions M.
9 (Thur) 1pm AF, RH: Pegasus.
11 (Sat) David Sexton, journalist. 8:30pm TPs: Orsino.
12 (Sun) 8pm BFs. Letter on political situation (BR: F29).
13–14 (Mon–Tue) Rome.
13 (Mon) 9pm British Embassy dinner.
14 (Tue) 11am receives award from city of Rome. 9pm NM perfor-
mance.
15 (Wed) Returns to London. 6:15pm awarded David Cohen British
Literature Prize for lifetime’s achievement. Acceptance
speech privately printed (BR: E34).
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17 (Fri) 1pm lunch Bulgarian ambassador.
18 (Sat) 12:30pm Writers’ Day. 6:30pm TA, GG.
19 (Sun) 8pm Was.
21 (Tue) 7:30pm Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw NT.
22 (Wed) 1pm lunch Arts Council. 6:30pm hears Tony Blair’s
lecture ‘The Rights We Enjoy Reflect the Duties We
Owe’, Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre.
23 (Thur) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm SRs.
24 (Fri) 8pm Jung Chang: Cibo.
25 (Sat) 8pm Ga dinner.
27 (Mon) 12:30pm Vanunu delegation, Israeli Embassy. 1:15pm
JD: Arcadia. 7pm Euripides’ Electra Gate Theatre.
9pm Martin Amis party.
28 (Tue) 1pm JBa. 6pm JD. 8pm Warners.
29 (Wed) Noon HJP.
30–2 Apr (Thur–Sun) Sofia, Bulgaria.
30 (Thur) Letter Evening Standard repudiating suggestion of a
rift with SR (BR: F30).
31 (Fri) 11am honorary doctorate, Sofia University.
April
2 (Sun) London.
5 (Wed) 2pm CF funeral.
6 (Thur) 6pm Daniel Massey, plays Furtwängler in RH’s TSi.
6:30pm Tom Rand, costume designer TSi. 8:30pm SGs.
7 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
8 (Sat) 8pm party for JD.
9 (Sun) 6:30pm film An Awfully Big Adventure.
10 (Mon) 6pm Ian Sinclair, novelist, Robert Wilcher, critic.
11 (Tue) 1pm RH: Le Caprice. 9:30pm sees film Pulp Fiction.
12 (Wed) 11am HJP. 7pm Mozart’s Così fan tutte CGa.
13 (Thur) 6pm Michael Pennington, plays Major Steve Arnold in
TSi.
14 (Fri) 8pm RHs.
15 (Sat) Noon ED. 7:45pm Sebastian Barry’s The Steward of
Christendom RC.
16 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
17 (Mon) 6:30pm OT, directed by Duncan Weldon, Theatr Clwyd,
Mold, Wales, cast drinks.
18–21 (Tue–Fri) Rehearsals TSi.
22 (Sat) 7:30pm Britten’s Peter Grimes CGa.
23 (Sun) 5pm rehearsal. 6:30pm Agenda poetry reading.
24–29 (Mon–Sat) Rehearsals TSi.
24 (Mon) 8:30pm EO: Ivy.

28 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
29 (Sat) 8pm dinner Fitzgeralds.
May
1–6 (Mon–Sat) Rehearsals TSi.
1 (Mon) 8pm dinner Warners.
3 (Wed) 7pm Reginald Rose, dramatist.
5 (Fri) 12:30pm JD: l’Altro. 8pm KRs.
7–13 (Sun–Sat) In Chichester for TSi.
12 (Fri) ‘A War of Words’, published in Red Pepper (BR: E35).
15–20 (Mon–Sat) TSi.
16 (Tue) OT Theatr Clwyd
24 (Tue) London.
29–1 June (Mon–Thur) Chewton Glen.
June
2 (Fri) 11:30am John Osborne Memorial Service, St Giles-in-the-
Fields. 8:30pm SGs.
3 (Sat) Last performance TSi, Chichester. Poem ‘Cricket at Night’,
Guardian, 29 (BR: C33).
5–6 (Mon–Tue) TSi, Richmond.
8 (Thur) OT Theatr Clwyd.
9 (Fri) London.
12 (Mon) TSi, Bath.
13 (Tue) London. 6pm Duncan Weldon.
15 (Thur) 1pm SG. 8pm GW dinner for Warners.
17 (Sat) Noon HJP.
18 (Sun) 8pm Fuentes: Orsino.
19 (Mon) OT rehearsal.
20 (Tue) 1pm Jill Johnson. 6pm Hilary Wainwright and others.
21 (Wed) 7:30pm Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Coliseum.
10:30pm Leigh Lawson, Deeley in OT, party.
23 (Fri) 11am Lord’s, England v West Indies.
24 (Sat) 11am Lord’s with SR. 8pm KRs.
26 (Mon) Lord’s.
27 (Tue) 6pm KR. 8pm dinner Thomas Pakenham.
28 (Wed) 9:30am lighting Criterion Theatre, TSi. 12:30pm RH.
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30 (Fri) 2:30pm OT run Wyndham’s Theatre.
July
1 (Sat) Pylewell.
2 (Sun) 2pm Ga Pylewell.
3 (Mon) 7pm OT press night. TSi Criterion Theatre.
4 (Tue) 11am Kate Saunders, Sunday Times journalist. 8:30pm
dinner Margaret Jay.
7 (Fri) Noon HJP. 8pm KRs.
8 (Sat) 6pm DJ.
9 (Sun) 2pm Ga Shipton-under-Wychwood. Kate Saunders
interview, Sunday Times (BR: G85).
10 (Mon) 6pm Andrew Graham-Yooll reception.
13 (Thur) 8:30pm SGs: La Fenice.
14 (Fri) 7pm cast TSi. 8pm dinner Gaia Servadio. Mark
Lawson, Guardian (BR: G86).
15 (Sat) 8:30pm SRs. Poem ‘The Other Guy’, Guardian (BR:
C34).
17–21 (Mon–Fri) Ho rehearsals. HP plays the part of Colonel Roote.
19 (Wed) 2:30pm Lord Snowdon, photographs.
21 (Fri) 11am Stephen Spender funeral. 8pm RHs: Le Caprice.
23 (Sun) 8pm Gila Falkus.
24–28 (Mon–Fri) Ho rehearsals.
25 (Tue) 6:15pm JD.
31–5 Aug (Mon–Sat) Ho.
31 (Mon) 10pm Ariel Dorfman, NH: Le Caprice.
August
1 (Tue) 10pm Strongs.
4 (Fri) 8:30pm Bob Gottlieb.
5 (Sat) 9pm Fuentes.
6 (Sun) Ga Tadworth.
7 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
8 (Tue) 8pm Berlins, RHs.
9 (Wed) 8pm BFs.
10 (Thur) 10pm OT cast supper.
11 (Fri) 10pm TSi cast supper: Le Caprice.
13 (Sun) HP, AF ‘rented a house near Petworth. It was a magic time’
(Must: 213).
15–16 (Tue–Wed) Ho dress rehearsals.

17 (Thur) 7:45pm first preview Ho.
18 (Fri) FF, Susan Hollis Merritt, David Leveaux, Ho.
19 (Sat) 12:30pm Susan Hollis Merritt. 2:45pm matinee, KR,
Freeds, FF and others.
20 (Sun) DJ Freeds.
22–26 (Tue–Sat) Ho.
23 (Wed) GV.
24 (Thur) Thelma Wax, Christopher Fry, RHs.
25 (Fri) JI and others.
26 (Sat) Fitzgeralds, Fosters.
27 (Sun) AF’s 63rd birthday party, RHs and Lauren Bacall
(Must: 213).
28–2 Sept (Mon–Sat) Ho.
29 (Tue) 5pm HJP.
September
3 (Sun) JD.
4–9 (Mon–Sat) Ho.
9 (Sat) Final performance Ho, Chichester.
11–16 (Mon–Sat) Ho, Richmond, Surrey.
14 (Thur) 12:30pm MBi: La Fenice.
15 (Fri) 11am Simone Warner. Noon TSi rehearsals.
16 (Sat) 2:30pm final performance Ho, Richmond.
17 (Sun) 6pm rehearsal. 8pm CF Memorial, Saville Club.
18–23 (Mon–Sat) Ho, Bath.
24 (Sun) London. 1:30pm Ga Sidcup.
25 (Mon) Noon takes part in PEN protest condemning hanging of
Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists. 1:15pm
JD: Le Caprice. 3pm TSi rehearsal. 4:30pm Geno Lechner,
plays Emmi Straube in TSi. 8pm Mexican Embassy,
Carlos Fuentes dinner.
27 (Wed) Lauren Bacall, opening night TSi, Criterion Theatre.
7pm Concorde to New York, first preview M, Laura Pels
Theatre. 9pm DJ.
28 (Thur) 1pm Reginald Rose, E.G. Marshall.
October
1 (Sun) London. ‘Short Story’, London Magazine (BR: D9).
2–7 (Mon–Sat) Ho Comedy Theatre.
3 (Tue) 7:45pm opening night Ho.
5 (Thur) 11:45am DP Memorial.
6 (Fri) 10:30am interview with Sheridan Morley, critic Late Night
Line-Up. Michael Owen interview, Evening Standard (BR: G87).
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8 (Sun) Participant ‘London Stage’, London Weekend TV (BR: K36).

9 (Mon) 10:30am rehearsal. 1:15pm JD: Ivy. 3pm Robert East.
10 (Tue) 1pm AF: Cibo.
11 (Wed) Noon HJP.
12 (Thur) Evening JBa, JE: Le Caprice.
13 (Fri) Lunch JD: Orsino.
17 (Tue) M press night, New York.
18 (Wed) 11am ED. 1pm JBa: Orsino.
19 (Thur) 1pm Duncan Weldon.
21 (Sat) L televised BBC2 (BR: W28.11).
25 (Wed) Rehearsals Ho, Bob East as Lush. Evening MBis: Pegasus.
26 (Thur) Ho company drinks.
27 (Fri) Evening AB: Le Caprice.
30 (Mon) Noon HJP. Evening SRs: Pegasus.
31 (Tue) 2pm rehearsal Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code,
HP plays John Smith. Evening dinner Andrés Rozental
(Mexican ambassador to UK) and Vivian Rozental: Le
Caprice.
November
2 (Thur) Noon ED. 3pm matinee Ho.
3 (Fri) 10:30am HG.
4 (Sat) 4pm matinee Ho.
7 (Tue) 10am Twelve meeting, HP directing. 1pm SG: La Fenice. 4pm
rehearsal TSi.
8 (Wed) 2:30pm TSi Criterion Theatre. Evening AF, SGs: Ivy.
9 (Thur) 3pm matinee Ho. Evening LM: Pegasus.
10 (Fri) 1pm JD. 5pm rehearsal.
11 (Sat) 4pm matinee Ho. Protests against Nigerian military junta hang-
ing of activists, Guardian (BR: E36).
13 (Mon) 5pm dress rehearsal TSi. Cast dinner: Ivy.
14 (Tue) 1pm costumes Breaking the Code.
15 (Wed) Noon Breaking the Code production meeting. Evening Laura Pels:
Ivy.
16 (Thur) Dinner Paolo Bonacelli, Italian actor: Pegasus.
17 (Fri) 1pm Ned Chaillet, MB: Gay Hussar.
18 (Sat) 4pm Ho. Signatory protest against Nigerian junta, Independent
(BR: H29).
19 (Sun) 6:30pm Writers in Prison meeting.
20 (Mon) Filming Breaking the Code.

21 (Tue) Tony Garrett.
22 (Wed) Noon HJP.
23, 25 (Thur, Sat) Matinee Ho.
25 (Sat) Cast dinner Ho: Ivy.
26 (Sun) 8pm RHs.
27 (Mon) 15th wedding anniversary. 1pm Savoy.
29 (Wed) Evening EO: Pegasus.
30 (Thur) 3pm matinee, Berlins, then SGs: Ivy.
December
1 (Fri) 11am Ned Chaillet. Evening Simone Warner: Pegasus.
2 (Sat) Final performance Ho, then JD: GSQ.
3 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
4 (Mon) 1pm Julie Christie: Orsino.
5 (Tue) 6pm Longford’s 90th birthday party, dinner.
6 (Wed) 1pm SG: Halcyon. 8pm Gila Falkus: Cibo.
8 (Fri) Proust, initial rehearsal BBC: HP plays the Voice.
9 (Sat) 11am Tom Rand, costume designer Ho, TSi. Final performance TSi.
11 (Mon) 1pm Arts Correspondents lunch Arts Club. 6:30pm SG: Halcyon.
13 (Wed) Filming Breaking the Code. 6pm Paul Eddington, Platform NT.
14 (Thur) Noon HJP. 8pm KI.
15 (Fri) 7:30pm Wertenbaker’s Break of Day RC.
17 (Sun) Signatory joint letter on the Euro, Observer (BR: H30).
18 (Mon) 8:30am BBC Start of the Week. 1pm JBa: Clarke’s. 6pm Twelve cast
drinks: Pegasus.
19 (Tue) 6pm MBi.
20 (Wed) 10am records Proust. 8pm KRs.
21 (Thur) 6pm HG.
22 (Fri) 1pm JD: La Fenice.
24 (Sun) 6pm Emma Tennant, FWy.
26 (Tue) 1pm lunch Fitzgeralds.
30 (Sat) 8pm KR.
31 (Sun) 8:25pm Proust, radio adaptation by MB, BBC Radio 3, directed by
Ned Chaillet (BR: W34.5).
1996
January
‘Merry Christmas’, Red Pepper (BR: E37).
2 (Tue) Noon HJP. 6pm film Crimson Tide. Joint letter on Turkey, Independent
(BR: H31).
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3 (Wed) 1pm SG: Halcyon. 8:15pm SRs: Orsino.

4 (Thur) 9:30am takes 52 bus back to the Hackney of his youth.
6pm JE. 8pm TPs: Orsino.
5 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
7–21 (Sat–Sun) Barbados. Reads Gitta Sereny’s Albert Speer biography
(1995; Billington, 374–5), inspires images for AA.
22 (Mon) London.
24 (Wed) 3pm HJP. 6pm begins AA.
25 (Thur) 5:30pm Fred Warner Memorial. Writes ‘madly’.
26 (Fri) 1pm Reginald Rose: Le Caprice.
27 (Sat) 8pm KRs. Writes for ‘seven hours’ (Must: 213–15).
29–2 Feb (Mon–Fri) Rehearsal Twelve.
30 (Tue) Writing. Peter Elstob’s (arts patron, entrepreneur) 80th
birthday party.
February
1–2 (Thur–Fri) Rehearsals Twelve.
2 (Fri) 8pm SGs.
6 (Tue) Finishes AA. 8pm KRs.
8 (Thur) 9:30am Cromwell Road: hospital check-up. Corres-
pondence GV, MBi, BB, TS, Colin Firth, Stephen
Daldry regarding AA (HPA).
9 (Fri) 6pm JD.
10 (Sat) 1pm Longfords.
11 (Sun) 8pm Simone Warner.
16 (Fri) 8pm Poliakoff’s Sweet Panic Hampstead Theatre.
17 (Sat) 7pm Ga AGM.
18 (Sun) 12:30pm FF: Orsino. 5pm Acceptance speech on
being awarded a special prize for his contribution
to the theatre: LO Awards programme.
21 (Wed) 11:30am Milan Lukes, Czech theatre scholar, poli-
tician. 9pm dinner BFs.
23 (Fri) 10am Stephen Daldry. 12:45pm JD.
24 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
25 (Sun) 7pm reads AA to SRs (Must: 215).
26–2 March (Mon–Sat) Twelve Bristol Old Vic.
March
2 (Sat) London. 8pm Craig Raine’s 1953 Almeida.
4–9 (Mon–Sat) Twelve, Bristol.
7 (Thur) 7:30pm first preview Twelve.

10 (Sun) London.
11–15 (Mon–Fri) Bristol.
14 (Thur) 8pm AF, RHs attend performance.
16 (Sat) London. 4pm Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Coliseum.
9:30pm GW: Ivy.
18 (Mon) 6:30pm FF party and dinner.
19 (Tue) 3pm HJP. 7:45pm with Stephen Daldry to Martin
McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane RC.
20 (Wed) 3pm Stephen Spender Memorial, St Martin-in-the-Fields.
8pm KRs.
21 (Thur) 1pm Guatemala Memorial Ceremony. 1:30pm JD: Le
Caprice. 7pm Schiller’s Mary Stuart, translated by Jeremy
Sams, Cot.
22 (Fri) Bristol.
23 (Sat) London. 8pm KRs.
26 (Tue) 12:30pm Stephen Daldry. 8:30pm SGs: GSQ.
27 (Wed) 7:30pm Jimmy Murphy’s Brothers of the Brush Arts
Theatre.
28 (Thur) 1pm HG: Orsino. 7:30pm Faber dinner: Berners Hotel.
10pm dinner BF: Cibo.
29 (Fri) HJP 94th birthday, Hove.
30 (Sat) Writers’ Day (Must: 215–16). 7pm Ga dinner.
31 (Sun) 1pm Fitzgeralds.
April
1 (Mon) 8pm KBs.
2 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
3 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson, then Bristol for Twelve performance.
4 (Thur) London.
6 (Sat) 4pm Irene Worth, Peter Eyre, Almeida. Last night Twelve,
Bristol.
9 (Tue) Twelve transfers to Comedy Theatre.
10 (Wed) 5pm EO. 6pm AA rehearsal reading, Ambassadors
Theatre.
11–13 (Thur–Sat) Twelve rehearsals.
11 (Thur) 7:45pm initial preview with Reginald Rose.
13 (Sat) 12:30pm Michael Colgan: Ivy. 8pm KRs.
14 (Sun) 8pm EO: Le Caprice.
16 (Tue) 12:30pm HJP.
17 (Wed) Noon AA set. 6pm Sebastian Faulks drinks. 7:30pm PEN
dinner.
18 (Thur) 8:30pm dinner V.S. Naipaul.
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19 (Fri) 1pm JBa: Orsino. 7:45pm preview Twelve. 10pm Reginald

Rose.
20 (Sat) 2pm Twelve.
22 (Mon) 7pm press night Twelve.
24 (Wed) 1pm JD. 6pm Reginald Rose. 6:45pm Twelve.
26–30 (Fri–Tue) Venice.
May
On Cuba, Red Pepper (BR: E38).
1 (Wed) 1pm Hugh Whitemore.
2 (Thur) 1pm Jill Johnson: Cibo. 8:30pm dinner Simone Warner.
3 (Fri) 11am HJP. 7:45pm Feydeau’s Mind Millie for Me
Haymarket.
4 (Sat) 8pm David Hare’s film of Wallace Shawn’s The Designated
Mourner. MN: Ivy.
5 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Tadworth.
8 (Wed) KR.
9 (Thur) 7:45pm Twelve.
10 (Fri) 8pm dinner George Soros.
11 (Sat) RHs. 7:45pm SG’s Simply Disconnected, with AB, Minerva
Theatre, Chichester.
13 (Mon) 1pm Patricia Losey. 8pm Mexican Embassy dinner for
Carlos Castaneda.
14 (Tue) 8pm Nicolas Kent’s partial reconstruction, Nuremberg
Trial: The War Crimes Tricycle Theatre.
15 (Wed) 12:45pm Thelma Wax: Le Caprice. 6pm Hilary
Wainwright, Red Pepper.
16 (Thur) 11am ED.
17 (Fri) 1pm SG: Halcyon.
20 (Mon) Noon HJP. 5:15pm NFT meeting.
21 (Tue) 8:30pm SG: Chez Moi.
23 (Thur) 1pm JD. Late evening Gila Falkus: GSQ.
24 (Fri) 1pm Simone Warner. 7:30pm Marina Carr’s Portia
Coughlan RC.
25 (Sat) 1:15pm Bob East: Ivy. Signatory joint letter, Guardian
(BR: H32).
26–29 (Sun–Wed) HP, AF Amsterdam.
27 (Mon) 2pm Northwood Town Hall, dress rehearsal AA.
28 (Tue) First private performance AA.
29 (Wed) London. 6pm sees Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies. 8pm MBis.
30 (Thur) 6:30pm JD. 8:30pm SGs.
31 (Fri) 1pm Laura Pels, KR: Ritz. 8pm Twelve. Signatory joint letter,
Independent (BR: H33).
June
1 (Sat) 2:15pm company call. 8:30pm Hugh Thomas: Orsino.
3 (Mon) 7:30pm Leon Kossoff dinner, Tate Gallery.
4 (Tue) Noon HJP.
6 (Thur) Molière’s Tartuffe Almeida.
7 (Fri) 6:30pm Red Pepper meeting.
8 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
9 (Sun) 2:30pm Ga Woldingham.
10 (Mon) 10am Degas exhibition, National Gallery. 6pm Amnesty meeting.
11 (Tue) 1pm MBi: Orsino. 8pm Gila Falkus, CBr.
12 (Wed) 1pm JD: Orsino. 6pm Sarah Kane.
14 (Fri) Kingston Russell, Dorset. 6pm dinner Fitzgeralds.
16 (Sun) 2pm Ga Godalming. 8pm SGs.
17 (Mon) 6pm Verdi’s Don Carlos CGa.
18 (Tue) 1pm KI: Orsino.
19 (Wed) 7pm Twelve company. 8pm with David Leveaux, Strauss’ Salome
Coliseum.
20 (Thur) 6pm Faber party.
21 (Fri) 1pm RH: Orsino. 6pm JD. 8pm Rozentals.
22 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
24 (Mon) 12:30pm Wimbledon tennis.
27 (Thur) 11:45am to Barcelona.
28 (Fri) London. 8pm SRs, Damian and Paloma Fraser.
29 (Sat) Pylewell.
July
1 (Mon) 6pm JD.
2 (Tue) 6pm MBi.
3 (Wed) 1pm FWy.
4 (Thur)Noon HJP. 7:45pm Twelve Criterion, takes Simone Warner.
5 (Fri) 10am Stephen Daldry. 6:30pm company call.
6 (Sat) 7pm MoL, Turkish Theatre Group, JD.
8 (Mon) Noon Piers Gray (SG’s younger brother) funeral.
9 (Tue) 1pm Jill Johnson. 7:30pm Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman NT.
Guardian letter (BR: F31).
10 (Wed) 6pm BL drinks. 8pm KRs.
11 (Thur) Address, Hull University Congregation, on honorary degree
award (BR: E39).
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12 (Fri) 8:30pm EO: Le Caprice.

16 (Tue) 7pm Red Pepper meeting.
17 (Wed) 11am Stephen Daldry. 8pm Detection Club.
18 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
19 (Fri) 11:30am Stephen Daldry. 1pm Hugh Whitemore: Halcyon.
20 (Sat) 8:30pm Faye Dunaway.
23 (Tue) 11am RC Summer School (Must: 215–16). 12:45pm JD. 9pm FF:
Le Caprice.
25 (Thur) 11am Lord’s, CBr.
26 (Fri) 6pm Patricia Losey. 8pm FWy.
27 (Sat) 6pm Faye Dunaway. Final performance Twelve.
29 (Mon) 6pm ED. 8pm dinner Hugh Thomas.
30 (Tue) Noon HJP. 8pm SGs.
31 (Wed) 1pm JD: Orsino.
August
1 (Thur) 11am RC meeting.
2–16 (Fri–Fri) Kingston Russell.
6 (Tue) Signatory joint letter, Independent on Sunday (BR: H34).
16 (Fri) Leaves Kingston Russell.
18 (Sun) 2pm Getty XI v Heartaches Cricket Club.
20 (Tue) 1pm initial release AA, Ambassadors.
21–24 (Wed–Sat) AA rehearsals.
22 (Thur) 7pm JD.
23 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
24 (Sat) Dinner Stella Tillyard, historian.
25 (Sun) Visits Ampleforth.
27 (Tue) AF birthday party: Ivy.
29 (Thur) 10am Richard Eyre.
30 (Fri) Elizabeth Longford, 90th birthday. 3pm Bernhurst.
September
1 (Sun) 2pm HP XI v McKinnon XI.
2–7 (Mon–Sat) Rehearsals AA.
4 (Wed) 6:30pm JD. 8:15pm RHs: Orsino.
6 (Fri) 4pm run of AA. 8pm KRs.
8 (Sun) 2pm cricket, Hampstead.
9 (Mon) AA moves to Ambassadors.
10–11 (Tue–Wed) AA dress rehearsal. Poem ‘Order’, Guardian (BR: C35).

12–14 (Thur–Sat) Previews.
16 (Mon) Noon HJP.
17–19 (Tue–Thur) Previews.
20 (Fri) 12:30pm Michael Colgan: Orsino.
23 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
24 (Tue) 8pm Ariel Dorfman sees AA.
25 (Wed) 5pm Stephen Daldry, Ambassadors. 8pm KB:
Cibo.
27 (Fri) 1pm Sarah Kane: Orsino. 8pm SRs see AA.
28 (Sat) 2:45pm RH’s The Handyman Minerva Theatre, Chichester.
Eric Kahane, RC closing party.
29 (Sun) 7:30pm ‘The Third at 5D Concert’ RFH. Poem ‘The Old
Days’, Observer (BR: C36).
30 (Mon) 12:30pm Vanunu delegation. 1:30pm Alastair Macaulay,
critic (Billington: 384): Cibo. 8pm KRs.
October
1 (Tue) 8:45pm The Servant shown NFT Pinter Film Season.
2 (Wed) 1pm Roger Michell: Orsino. 8pm to AA with EO, then
Stephen Daldry: Ivy.
3 (Thur) Noon HJP.
4 (Fri) 1pm Christopher Hampton: Orsino. 8pm supper Margaret
Drabble.
5 (Sat) Hugh Fraser christening. 6:30pm A NFT. 7:30pm Albee’s
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Almeida.
6 (Sun) 3:40pm The Go-Between. 8:30pm The Pumpkin Eater NFT.
6pm Jez Butterworth, author of Majo; in the film HP played
‘a peroxided homosexual Gangster’ (Billington: 400).
7 (Mon) 8:40pm LGD NFT.
8 (Tue) 12:30pm participates in programme on Michael Redgrave
NT (BR: K39). 8pm AA performance on behalf of PEN.
9 (Wed) Noon MW. 6:30pm company call.
10 (Thur) Noon HJP. 8pm GW dinner for AF.
11–12 (Fri–Sat) Cheltenham Festival.
12 (Sat) Noon interview with MBi, see 17 (Thur).
13 (Sun) London. 5:50pm FLW NFT.
14 (Mon) 7:30pm Ga.
16 (Wed) 1:15pm David Leveaux: Le Caprice. 7pm Kurdish evening.
8:45pm B NFT.
17 (Thur) 4pm matinee. 8pm GV, Mojo discussion. Cheltenham, inter-
view with MBi, broadcast on Night Waves, BBC Radio 3.
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18 (Fri) 1:15pm GV: Orsino. 6:30pm Ian Smith Ga. 8pm KRs.
8:45pm Ru NFT.
19–23 (Sat–Wed) New York.
21 (Mon) AA reading Poetry Center (Must: 216–17), public discus-
sion with Austin E. Quigley, academic, critic (BR: G89).
23 (Wed) London.
24 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
25 (Fri) 11am Mojo, initial read-through. 6:30pm CS, then NFT
interview MBi (BR: G88).
26 (Sat) Noon HJP. 6:10pm HD NFT. 8pm last night AA, goes
with JD.
27 (Sun) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm SG’s 60th birthday: Groucho.
28–30 (Mon–Wed) Barcelona.
29 (Tue) 6:20pm The Trial NFT.
30 (Wed) 9pm AA reading, HP Festival Barcelona.
31 (Thur) London. 6:15pm MoL, PaT, L NFT.
November
1 (Fri) 11am Michael Colgan. 8:45pm RHs: Orsino.
2 (Sat) 1pm SG.
5 (Tue) 6pm Roger Michell. 8:30pm FF: Wilton’s.
6 (Wed) 1pm Trevor Nunn: Ivy. 8pm KRs.
7 (Thur) 8pm SG: Chez Moi.
8 (Fri) 7:30pm SB’s Happy Days Almeida.
9 (Sat) 4:40pm sees film Breaking the Waves.
11 (Mon) 10am AA recorded for BBC World Service.
12–15 (Tue–Fri) Filming Mojo.
15 (Fri) 9:30pm SGs: Chez Moi.
16 (Sat) 11:30am JD. Sees film Michael Collins.
17 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
18–19 (Mon–Tue) Filming Mojo.
20 (Wed) 6:30pm JD.
21 (Thur) 1pm Stephen Daldry: Halcyon. 7:30pm Miller’s Death of
a Salesman NT.
22 (Fri) Bury St Edmunds.
23 (Sat) Noon Tony Garrett.
25 (Mon) 11am Michael Colgan. Rehearsals H, directed by Roger
Michell, Ly.
26 (Tue) Filming.
27 (Wed) Wedding anniversary. 1pm AF, HP: Ivy and 10pm Le
Caprice.
28 (Thur) Noon HJP.
29 (Fri) 7pm Oedipus Ol, goes with RHs, then Pegasus.
30 (Sat) 1pm Fitzgeralds.
December
2 (Mon) 10am BL. 1:15pm SG: Chez Moi.
4 (Wed) Guardian article on the US (BR: E40).
5 (Thur) 8pm AA reading, Barcelona.
6 (Fri) Interview with Mireia Aragay and Ramon Simó (BR: G91).
7 (Sat) London. 8pm KRs.
8 (Sun) 1pm FF, Peter Soros. 8:30pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
10 (Tue) 1:15pm HW: Orsino. 6:30pm Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten
Coliseum.
11 (Wed) 7pm Ga nets, Lord’s.
12 (Thur) Lunch AF.
13–14 (Fri–Sat) Filming Mojo.
15 (Sun) 6:30pm Gila Falkus.
16 (Mon) Noon Iranian Embassy PEN demonstration. 6:30pm Peter
Eyre. 8:30pm Mojo party.
17 (Tue) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8:30pm dinner Simone Warner.
18 (Wed) 1pm dinner HW. 7:30pm Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
Albery Theatre.
19 (Thur) 8pm family dinner for FF and Peter Soros (Must: 217).
20 (Fri) 1pm Roger Michell. 2:30pm H run Ly. 8pm SRs.
21 (Sat) Noon HJP.
22 (Sun) 6pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
24 (Tue) 1pm drinks.
26 (Thur) 1pm lunch Fitzgeralds. 8pm RHs: GSQ.
27 (Fri) 1pm JD. 8pm KRs.
28 (Sat) 9pm Jung Chang, Jon Halliday: Mandarin Kitchen.
30 (Mon) 1pm JD.
31 (Tue) 8pm SGs: Chez Moi. 9pm Whitemore party.
1997
January
1 (Wed) 8:15pm Hugh Thomas: Orsino.
2 (Thur) 7:30pm Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan Cot.
3 (Fri) 1pm David Edwards, political journalist: Orsino.
4 (Sat) 8pm Massenet’s Chérubin CGa.
6 (Mon) Noon HJP. 8pm KRs.
7 (Tue) 1pm JD: Orsino. 6:30pm sees film Shine.
8 (Wed) 12:30pm RH: Pegasus. 2pm editing AA. 8:30pm Wilton’s.
Times letter concerning police domestic bugging (BR: F32).
9 (Thur) 1pm Roger Michell. 2pm H run.
10 (Fri) 3pm Michael Colgan. 4pm Alan Stanford, actor, director.
11–25 (Sat–Sat) Mexico.
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21 (Tue) Interviewee with Jeremy Isaacs BBC2 (BR: K38).
22 (Wed) Joint letter Independent regarding refugee rights (BR: H36).
23 (Thur) H Ly press night.
26 (Sun) London.
27 (Mon) 1pm JD. 8pm dinner Orlando Fraser.
28 (Tue) Noon HJP.
29 (Wed) Noon wedding FF and Peter Soros.
30 (Thur) 7:30pm H cast dinner. 11pm Roger Michell: Ivy.
31 (Fri) 8:30pm FF and Peter Soros, wedding celebrations dance.
February
2 (Sun) Letter ‘Pause for Thought’, Sunday Times (BR: F33).
3 (Mon) 1pm lunch British Council. 8pm KRs.
4 (Tue) 1pm Ian Smith: Orsino. 8pm KBs.
5 (Wed) 1pm IH: Orsino.
7 (Fri) 10pm rewords Vanunu notes and comments for distribution.
8 (Sat) 6pm KR.
11 (Tue) 6pm JE.
12 (Wed) 1pm RH: Cristoff’s.
13 (Thur) 8pm Simone Warner.
14 (Fri) 11:15am Michael Colgan: Orsino.
16 (Sun) 8pm FF, Peter Soros.
17 (Mon) Noon HJP. 6pm Wagner’s Lohengrin CGa.
18 (Tue) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm KRs.
19 (Wed) 10:30am rehearsals, Then Again, A New Lyric Review Lyric
Hammersmith.
20 (Thur) 12:30pm St Paul’s School. 6pm dinner for AF.
21 (Fri) 8pm dinner SG.
22 (Sat) SG, VR (SGs) wedding.
24 (Mon) 1pm HG. 6pm Falk Richter, German dramatist.
25 (Tue) 10:30am HG. 1pm CBr: Orsino. 3pm AB.
26 (Wed) 1pm JD: Orsino. 4:30pm Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
27 (Thur) 1pm Berlins: Bentley’s. 8pm Powells dinner for Soros.
28–1 March Turin.
(Fri–Sat)
28 (Fri) Evening Turin, Ho performance.
March
1 (Sat) London.
3 (Mon) 8pm Gluck’s Opheus and Eurydice Coliseum.
4 (Tue) 1pm Duncan Weldon: Luigi’s.
5 (Wed) 6pm Di Trevis, director.
6 (Thur) 12:30pm Matthew Evans: La Fenice. 6pm JD.

7 (Fri) 1pm AB: Orsino.
8 (Sat) 6pm ED. 8pm KRs.
9 (Sun) 1pm Ariel Dorfman. 6pm tennis then dinner BFs.
10 (Mon) 7:45pm Longfords: Chez Moi.
11 (Tue) 1pm JS: Bentley’s. 3pm Mojo. 4:30pm C rehearsal (reper-
tory). 7:15pm FF, Peter Soros: Le Caprice.
12 (Wed) Noon HJP. 7:30pm Chekhov’s Ivanov Almeida.
13 (Thur) Noon British Council Awards. 2:30pm The Lover rehearsal
for Battersea Arts Centre run.
15 (Sat) AA Basel, Switzerland.
16 (Sun) 4pm KR. 6pm tennis.
17–21 (Mon–Fri) Rehearsals Co Gate Theatre, Dublin, directed by Alan
Stanford: HP plays Harry.
19 (Wed) 7pm SG, then Chez Moi.
20 (Thur) 8pm Simone Warner.
22 (Sat) Noon HJP. 7:30pm H Ly.
23 (Sun) 7pm SGs drinks. 9pm RHs.
24 (Mon) 1pm Jill Johnson.
25–28 (Tue–Fri) Rehearsals Co.
25 (Tue) 8pm Michael Colgan, Penelope Wilton.
26 (Wed) 10:30am Jerzy Stuhr, Polish film and theatre actor and
director. 8pm dinner Tom Rosenthal, publisher.
27 (Thur) 7pm press night for God’s District, HP monologue, written
for the intimate review Then Again, Lyric Hammersmith
(BR: W66).
28 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
29 (Sat) HJP’s 95th birthday.
31–16 April HP, AF Dublin for Pinter Festival.
(Mon–Wed)
April
Contribution Red Pepper on voting intentions (BR: H37).
3 (Thur) 7pm reception, Dublin Festival. 8pm dinner actors.
4 (Fri) 8pm Hugh Leonard, Irish dramatist: Les Frères Jacques.
5 (Sat) Co dress rehearsal.
7 (Mon) 8pm Co preview.
8–9 (Tue–Wed) Co performance.
10 (Thur) AF returns to London. 10:30pm AA, HP directing.
11 (Fri) AA and Co.
12 (Sat) 8:15pm last Co.
13 (Sun) 4pm technical matters. 7:30pm film interview.
14 (Mon) AA.
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16 (Wed) London.
17 (Thur) 1pm Ian Smith: La Fenice. 6:30pm JD.
18 (Fri) Return to Dublin. 6pm HP reading, Trinity College. 8:15pm pre-
view AKA, directed by KR.
19 (Sat) Run NM. AF, HP return to London.
20 (Sun) 7:30pm Ga dinner.
21 (Mon) KRs.
22 (Tue) Noon HJP.
23 (Wed) Returns to Dublin. 6pm Neil Jordan, Irish filmmaker and novel-
ist. 8:15pm preview NM.
24 (Thur) London.
25 (Fri) 1:15pm SG: Chez Moi.
26 (Sat) 7pm The Lover Battersea Arts Centre.
28 (Mon) 8pm Stephen Churchett’s Tom and Clem Ald.
29 (Tue) 11am ED. 7pm King Lear NT.
30 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson. 4pm ED. 7pm Mojo BBC. 9pm JD: Orsino.
May
1 (Thur) 8:30pm MBis for Election night, then BBC party (Must:
203–4).
2 (Fri) 8:30pm Lauren Bacall: Le Caprice.
4 (Sun) 1pm family birthday lunch. 8pm KRs.
5 (Mon) 2pm Ga Wycombe House.
6 (Tue) 1pm HJP. 7:30pm Peter Whelan’s The Herbal Bed Duchess
Theatre.
7 (Wed) 1pm George Soros.
8 (Thur) 11am initial rehearsal SG’s Life Support (LS), directed by
HP. 7:15pm BAFTA dinner, receives Fellowship.
9 (Fri) 1pm rehearsal.
10–13 (Sat–Tue) Paris.
11 (Sun) 4pm rehearsal Molière Awards. 8pm dinner Michael and
Mimi Pakenham.
12 (Mon) 8pm HP receives Molière Honorary Award in recognition
of his life’s work.
13 (Tue) London. 8pm Freeds.
14–16 (Wed–Fri) Rehearsals LS.
15 (Thur) 6:30pm JD. 10pm GWs: Le Caprice.
17 (Sat) 7:30pm Strauss’ Elektra CGa.
19 (Mon) 8pm KR.
23 (Fri) Strongs.
24 (Sat) Hay Festival of Literature, receives Sunday Times Award
for Literary Excellence.
25 (Sun) MBis.
26 (Mon) 6:30pm Susan Hollis Merritt. 8pm Gila Falkus.

27–31 (Tue–Sat) Rehearsals. 1pm Julia Ormond, actress, suggests Karen
Blixen’s The Dreaming Child (DCh) to HP. 6pm Lambert
Wilson, actor. 8:30pm VR: Cibo.
28 (Wed) 6pm JBa.
29 (Thur) 7:30pm final H Ly.
30 (Fri) 7:30pm Red Pepper meeting Conway Hall.
31 (Sat) 6pm Christine Boisson, actress.
June
2–3 (Mon–Tue), Rehearsals.
5–7 (Thur–Sat)
3 (Tue) 8pm RHs.
4 (Wed) H to Amsterdam, Netherlands tour.
7 (Sat) 8pm EO: Ivy.
9 (Mon) LS Guildford.
10 (Tue) 7:45pm first performance LS.
12 (Thur) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8pm KRs.
13 (Fri) 1pm Michael Peppiatt, art historian: Osteria. HP ‘morose’
(Must: 217–18).
14 (Sat) 8pm Rosenthals, EO, Fuentes.
15 (Sun) 8pm Robert Oresko, historian of Italy.
16 (Mon) 6:30pm SG.
17 (Tue) 7:45pm LS opens, Richmond, Surrey.
18 (Wed) 5pm Oxford, interview with Ian Sinclair
19 (Thur) 1pm Penelope Prentice: Osteria. 7pm SR’s 50th birthday
celebration.
21 (Sat) 6pm Gianni Quaranta, Italian production designer and
director.
23 (Mon) LS Oxford. 10pm AB.
24 (Tue) 1pm Jill Johnson. 4:30pm Ald for LS. 8pm KRs.
26 (Thur) Noon HJP health deteriorating, in a nursing home (Must:
219).
30 (Mon) 12:30pm MW: Le Caprice. 6pm Stephen Daldry.
July
1 (Tue) Bath. 7:30pm LS.
2 (Wed) Manchester. 8pm CBr, Ian Cartmill, lawyer, Ga fast bowler.
3 (Thur) Old Trafford, England v Australia.
4 ( Fri) 7:30pm Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra CGa.
5 (Sat) 8pm Mark-Anthony Turnage concert QEH.
6 (Sun) 1pm Rothschilds, Waddesdon Manor.
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7 (Mon) 1:30pm SG: Chez Moi. 6pm JD. 8pm SRs. Signatory joint letter,
Independent, protesting arrest of Iranian dissident writer (BR: H38).
8 (Tue) 8:30pm Hugh Thomas.
9 (Wed) 11am Julia Ormond.
10–12 Paris.
(Thur–Sat)
10 (Thur) Signatory joint letter, Independent, on re-entry to Britain of
deported family (BR: H39).
12 (Sat) Wedding Natasha Fraser and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni. HP gave
bride away (Must: 226).
13 (Sun) London. Participant in ‘Michael Redgrave: His Father’, directed
by Roger Michell (BR: K39).
15 (Tue) 1pm MG Osteria. 6pm John Lahr. 8:30pm RH: Orsino.
17 (Thur) 5pm Ian Sinclair. 7:30pm David Hare’s Amy’s View Ly.
18 (Fri) Noon HJP. 8pm KRs.
20 (Sun) Noon MG. 2pm Ga Great Hampden.
21 (Mon) 7:30pm Robert Sherman’s Missing in Action Jermyn Street
Theatre.
22 (Tue) 11pm and lunch Julia Ormond regarding DCh.
23 (Wed) 11am rehearsal LS. 8pm Simone Warner.
24 (Thur) 8pm Damian and Paloma Fraser.
25 (Fri) Kingston Russell.
26 (Sat) Begins work on DCh.
28 (Mon) LS.
30 (Wed) LS initial preview Ald.
August
5 (Tue) 7pm press night LS.
6 (Wed) 1pm Julia Ormond: Le Caprice.
16 (Sat) 8pm Simon Block’s Chimps Hampstead Theatre.
17 (Sun) 8:30pm Ariel Dorfman: Ivy.
19 (Tue) 1pm Ian Sinclair: Orsino. 6:30pm with MG sees cricket
films NFT.
20 (Wed) 7:30pm Thomas Bernhard’s Eve of Retirement Gate Theatre.
21 (Thur) 6:30pm JD.
23 (Sat) Noon HJP.
24 (Sun) 5:45pm sees film Plein Soleil. 8:30pm Ivy.
25 (Mon) 6pm Julia Ormond. 8:30pm Gila Falkus: Orsino. First draft
DCh.
26–29 (Tue–Fri) Cornwall.
27 (Wed) AF’s birthday.
29 (Fri) London. Signatory joint letter on ‘Kurdish Peace Train’
Independent (BR: H40).
30 (Sat) To Bernhurst: Elizabeth Longford’s 90th birthday.
September
1–5 (Mon–Fri) Works with Julia Ormond on second draft of DCh.
5 (Fri) 8pm LS, then dines with Alan Ross: Luigi’s.
7 (Sun) 11:30pm Ga Hampstead.
8 (Mon) 1pm Michael Colgan: Orsino. HJP nearing death (Must:
220). 9pm to Brighton.
10 (Wed) 3:30pm HJP’s death. Poem ‘Death (Births and Deaths
Registration Act 1953)’ (BR: C37).
12 (Fri) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8:30pm SGs.
13 (Sat) TS party.
14 (Sun) Ga Getty XI.
15 (Mon) 8:30pm Schlesingers: Le Caprice.
17 (Wed) 7:30pm Shaw’s Heartbreak House Almeida, then Patricia
Losey: Lola’s.
18 (Thur) 6pm HG. 8pm Tim Roth, actor, director (King Lear film
project).
19 (Fri) 11am Ga Cross Arrow.
20 (Sat) 6pm sees film L’Appartement.
21 (Sun) 1:30pm Ga Sidcup
22 (Mon) 7:30pm Caryl Churchill’s Blue Heart RC.
23 (Tue) 9pm Fuentes: Ivy.
24 (Wed) 1pm KI: Orsino. 6pm Sam Mendes: Pegasus.
25 (Thur) 11am Julia Ormond, third draft DCh (HPA).
26–27 (Fri–Sat) Athens.
27 (Sat) 9pm film award, Athens.
28 (Sun) London.
29 (Mon) 8pm discussion NT Proust (BR: W34.8).
October
1 (Wed) Works with Julia Ormond on DCh.
2 (Thur) GW dinner.
3 (Fri) Rehearsal LS.
4 (Sat) 10:30am Julia Ormond. 7:45pm Britten’s The Turn of the
Screw Barbican.
5 (Sun) 3pm rehearsal. 7pm participates Ghazi Rabihavi’s human
rights drama Look Europe Almeida. Petition ‘Decriminalize
Cannabis’, Independent (BR: H41).
6 (Mon) 10:30am rehearsal Italian AA. 8pm dinner MBr: Villa Bianca.
8 (Wed) 8:30pm SGs: Cibo.
9 (Thur) First preview M, Paris.
10 (Fri) 7:30pm Othello NT.
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11 (Sat) 8pm M Théâtre du Rond-Point.
12 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
13 (Mon) London.
15 (Wed) 12:30pm JBa: Engineer. ‘Interview donnée au Monde du
15 octobre 1997’ (Le Monde; BR: G92).
16 (Thur) 8:15pm RHs: Chez Moi.
17 (Fri) 1pm JD. 8pm dinner LS company.
18 (Sat) LS closes.
19–31 (Sun–Fri) Palermo Festival AA, Italian, directed by HP.
November
1 (Sat) Venice.
4 (Tue) AA performed, Turin.
5 (Wed) London.
7 (Fri) 1pm JD: Orsino. 6pm Mojo followed by reception.
8 (Sat) 4pm KR.
9 (Sun) 6pm Gila Falkus.
10 (Mon) 1pm Julia Ormond: Orsino. 8pm KRs.
11–13 (Tue–Thur) Julia Ormond, DCh.
11 (Tue) 7:30pm Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck Gate Theatre.
12 (Wed) 6pm Ninos Mikelides, Greek film critic. 8pm FF, Peter
Soros.
14 (Fri) 6pm ED. Signatory joint letter Jewish Chronicle oppos-
ing Binyamin Netanyahu’s conduct of peace talks
(BR: H42).
15 (Sat) 8pm Sophocles’ Electra Donmar Warehouse.
16 (Sun) 11am JD.
18 (Tue) 6pm Tom Rosenthal.
19 (Wed) 6pm Stephen Rea, actor.
21 (Fri) To Bristol with Julia Ormond, DCh. 8pm KRs.
22 (Sat) 4pm Julia Ormond. 8pm Ian McEwan party.
23 (Sun) 11am BL. 7pm Ga.
24 (Mon) 10:30am interview Roberto Andò, Italian television.
6pm KR.
25 (Tue) 10:30am trip to Hackney with Andò.
26 (Wed) 1pm LM. 6:30pm JD.
27 (Thur) HW in London. 1:15pm AF: Chez Moi, anniversary.
7:30pm Verdi’s Falstaff Coliseum.
28 (Fri) 1pm Ian Smith: Orsino. 6pm KR.
29 (Sat) Albee’s A Delicate Balance Theatre Royal Haymarket.
30 (Sun) 1pm Simone Warner, Hugh Thomas. 6pm tennis then
bridge BFs.
December
1 (Mon) 6:30pm Sarah Kane. 8pm HW.
2 (Tue) 8pm dinner GW.
3 (Wed) 3:30pm Roberto Andò. 8pm John B. Keane’s Sive
Tricycle Theatre.
6 (Sat) 5pm BL. 8pm SRs.
8 (Mon) 1pm Jill Johnson: Orsino. 8pm EO: Ivy.
9 (Tue) 6pm ED.
10 (Wed) 12:30pm HW: Orsino. 6:30pm Ian Rickson, theatre
director.
11 (Thur) 6pm introductory speech launching Peace Train (BR:
E41).
12 (Fri) 1pm SG: Chez Moi. 8pm KRs.
15 (Mon) 6pm Ned Chaillet. 8pm dinner Alfred Brendel.
16 (Tue) 8pm Alan Wilkinson, Ga member, cricket enthusiast
(see BR: H69).
17 (Wed) 11am KB. 6pm Hilary Wainwright. 8pm SG: Chez Moi.
18 (Thur) 1pm JBa: Orsino. 6:30pm drinks Hugh Thomas.
8:30pm visits Freeds.
19 (Fri) 11:30am ED. 8pm KRs.
20 (Sat) 8pm Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s The Front
Page Donmar Warehouse. 10:15pm Julia Ormond: Ivy.
HP completes final draft of DCh.
23 (Tue) 8pm Simone Warner.
24 (Wed) 8pm Soros.
26 (Fri) 8pm SGs.
27–5 Jan (Sat–Mon) Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Must: 232).
1998
January
6 (Tue) London.
7 (Wed) 1:15pm JD.
9 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
11 (Sun) 8pm DPh: Orsino.
13 (Tue) 6pm Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni. 8:15pm Carlos Fuentes.
14 (Wed) 11am Isaiah Berlin Memorial Service.
15 (Thur) 1:15pm SGs: Chez Moi.
16 (Fri) 5:30pm Donmar Warehouse meeting. 8:30pm dinner DPh.
17 (Sat) Noon John Wells funeral.
18 (Sun) 9pm BFs.
20 (Tue) 12:30pm CBr: Orsino. 7pm The Wings of the Dove film Curzon.
21 (Wed) 11am Amnesty meeting.
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22 (Thur) 1:15pm Frances D’Souza: Orsino. 8pm KRs.

23 (Fri) 3pm JD. 6pm Di Trevis.
24 (Sat) 3:40pm Titanic film.
25 (Sun) 1pm Daisy Soros. 7pm tennis then bridge Was.
26 (Mon) 6pm BBC Radio 4 ‘Sport and Literature’. 8pm RHs.
29 (Thur) 1pm lunch Nicholas Henderson, diplomat. 7:30pm Kevin Elyot’s
The Day I Stood Still Cot.
30 (Fri) 6pm SG: Halcyon.
31 (Sat) 8pm Richard Kane’s Miss Roach’s War Croydon Warehouse.
February
2 (Mon) 11am Christopher Bland, Chairman, Board of Governors,
BBC, 1996–2001. 6pm Donmar Warehouse. 8:30pm
Orlando Fraser: Ivy.
3 (Tue) 6:30pm TA, SG.
4 (Wed) 12:45pm lunch Observer. 3:30pm MBr. 6:45pm PEN.
9:30pm Ariel Dorfman.
5 (Thur) 8pm SRs, Fuentes, Julia Ormond.
6 (Fri) 1pm Jill Johnson. 3:30pm HG. 8pm KRs (BR: H43A).
7 (Sat) 10am OT rehearsal BBC Radio 3, stage directions read
by HP, director Ned Chaillet, with Julia Ormond as Kate.
6pm tennis BFs, then bridge.
8–10 (Sun–Tue) Turin.
9–10 (Mon–Tue) AA Turin.
11 (Wed) London.
12 (Thur) 4pm St Paul’s Girls’ School. 7:30pm emergency Persian
Gulf meeting, House of Commons.
13 (Fri) 11am Valerie Grove, journalist, interview The Times (BR:
G95). 1pm JD: Orsino. 7pm appearance Channel 4 News.
8pm Julia Ormond: Le Caprice. Colin Brown interview,
Independent (BR: G94).
16 (Mon) 6:15pm Trevor Nunn, NT. 8:30pm Damian and Paloma
Fraser: Le Caprice.
17 (Tue) 2:30pm editing Italian AA cassette. 8:30pm SGs. Letter
opposing Iraq War, Guardian (BR: F34).
18 (Wed) 5:30pm Downing Street vigil against Iraq War. 7:30pm
Conor McPherson’s The Weir RC.
19 (Thur) 1pm JD: Orsino. 6:30pm Cartier-Bresson exhibition,
Hayward Gallery.
20 (Fri) 12:30pm Michael Colgan: Orsino. 8pm FF, Peter Soros.
21–25 March Paris, directing AA.
(Sat–Wed)
21 (Sat) 9pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni.
22 (Sun) Noon Eric Kahane, translated AA to French.
23–27 (Mon–Fri) Rehearsals AA.

25 (Wed) 8pm Laura Pels.
March
1 (Sun) 11am visits Versailles (Must: 228). 8pm British Embassy.
3 (Tue) 11am Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris, where AA performed.
4 (Wed) 8pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni.
10 (Tue) 8:30pm Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni birthday dinner.
13 (Fri) 11am costumes AA.
16 (Mon) 11am lunch Figaro. 5pm AA run with invited audience.
8pm interview Robert Oresko, French TV. OT, Victoria
Station, double bill, BBC Radio 4 (BR: W44.6).
17–21 (Tue–Sat) Rehearsals. 9pm preview AA.
20 (Fri) 1pm BB.
21 (Sat) 7pm Marc Soustras, French film director.
22 (Sun) 3pm visits Fontainebleau.
23 (Mon) 8pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni.
24 (Tue) 9pm press night AA.
25 (Wed) London.
26 (Thur) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8pm SGs.
27 (Fri) 7:45pm AAy’s Things We Do for Love Gielgud Theatre.
28 (Sat) 6pm Vanunu party.
30 (Mon) 7:30pm FF, Peter Soros.
31 (Tue) 1pm Julia Ormond: Orsino. 8pm BFs.
April
3 (Fri) 1pm Jill Johnson: Belvedere.
4 (Sat) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 7:30pm Tennessee Williams’ Not About
Nightingales Cot.
6 (Mon) Initial rehearsal ‘3 by [HP]’, Donmar Warehouse. HP plays
Harry in Co.
7 (Tue) Bristol. 7:15pm Welsh National Opera, Britten’s Billy Budd.
8 (Wed) London. 3pm rehearsal.
9 (Thur) 8pm Brian Friel’s Give Me Your Answer Do Hampstead
Theatre.
10 (Fri) Dinner, Jung Chang, Jon Halliday: Orsino.
11–12 (Sat–Sun) Visits FF, Peter Soros.
13 (Mon) London. 8pm KRs.
14 (Tue) 10am Vanunu deputation Israeli Embassy.
15–17 (Wed–Fri) Rehearsals, Donmar Warehouse ‘3’.
17 (Fri) 8pm FWy.
18 (Sat) 8:30pm SG.
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20 (Mon) 6:30pm JBa drinks.
21 (Tue) 11am costumes fitting.
22 (Wed) 2pm rehearsals. 6:15pm Wag the Dog BAFTA. 8:15pm RHs: Le
Caprice.
23 (Thur) Noon wig fitting.
24 (Fri) Noon The Lover Donmar Warehouse. 2:30pm rehearsal. 7:30pm
Sebastian Barry’s Our Lady of Sligo Cot.
26 (Sun) 8pm Simone Warner: Orsino.
27 (Mon) 12:45pm JD. 2:30pm rehearsal Donmar Warehouse. 8pm SGs,
RHs: Leith’s, Soho.
28 (Tue) 3:30pm rehearsal. 8pm dinner Robert Oresko.
29 (Wed) 12:45pm David Aukin. 6pm reception Windsor Castle.
30 (Thur) John Wells Memorial. 4pm rehearsal.
May
Involved with ‘3’ plays Donmar Warehouse.
1 (Fri) 10am run ‘3’ plays: AKA directed by KR, Co and The
Lover both directed by Joe Harmston, Donmar Ware-
house.
2 (Sat) 10am–2pm rehearsal.
3 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Tadworth.
4 (Mon) 8:30pm SRs.
5–9 (Tue–Sat) Rehearsals, previews Donmar Warehouse.
10 (Sun) 2pm Ga Cranleigh.
11–12 (Mon–Tue) Previews.
12 (Tue) After preview, Fosters: Ivy.
13 (Wed) 7pm press night.
14 (Thur) After performance, LM: Ivy.
15 (Fri) 12:30pm Phil Agland, film director: Orsino. Guardian
article opposing Iraq War (BR: F35).
16 (Sat) Donmar Warehouse.
17 (Sun) Final performance AA, Paris.
18–23 (Mon–Sat) Donmar Warehouse.
20 (Wed) 12:30pm JD: Ivy.
21 (Thur) 12:45pm Aline Berlin: Bentley’s. After performance, IH,
AF: Ivy.
22 (Fri) 12:30pm Jill Johnson. After performance, company din-
ner: Orso.
25 (Mon) 2pm JD and others. After performance, Rebecca Edward:
Ivy.
27 (Wed) 8pm first performance AA, Prague.

31 (Sun) 2pm Ga Bromley.
June
1 (Mon) On Turkey protest, Guardian (BR: H44).
2 (Tue) 11:30am KR. Evening performance RHs.
4 (Thur) 11am Paolo Bonacelli, Italian actor.
5 (Fri) Evening performance, Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni,
Damian Fraser.
6 (Sat) 1pm lunch Soros.
7 (Sun) 11:30am cricket Hampstead 8pm Robert Oresko.
8 (Mon) 9pm Damian Fraser: Chez Moi.
9 (Tue) 1pm Marguerite Feitlowitz: Orsino. HP endorses her
A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
(1998). After performance, EO: Ivy.
11 (Thur) 11am JD. 1pm Patricia Losey. After performance, SGs:
Chez Moi.
12 (Fri) 1pm Ian Sinclair: Orsino. After performance, FF, Peter
Soros.
13 (Sat) 7pm final Donmar Warehouse performance, company
dinner.
16–20 (Tue–Sat) ‘3 by [HP]’ Theatre Royal, Bath.
16 (Tue) 1pm Andrew Graham-Yooll.
18 (Thur) Noon Anthony and Violet Powell.
22–27 (Mon–Sat) ‘3 by [HP]’ Richmond Theatre.
25 (Thur) 11am, BL. After performance, DJ.
26 (Fri) 1pm MBr: Ivy.
27 (Sat) 7:45pm final performance.
29 (Mon) 12:15pm Vanessa Redgrave: Orsino. 8pm Syon House
concert with RHs.
30 (Tue) 1pm BB.
July
1 (Wed) 1pm JD. 6pm Susan Hollis Merritt. 8pm KRs.
3 (Fri) 7:30pm dinner Cannadines.
4 (Sat) Pylewell.
6 (Mon) 6pm Guatemala meeting. 8:30pm Fuentes: Le Caprice.
7 (Tue) 6pm Duncan Weldon. 7:30pm Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen Cot.
8 (Wed) 8pm SGs.
9 (Thur) 8pm dinner National Portrait Gallery.
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opens in London.
12 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Shipton.
13 (Mon) 1pm Thelma Wax: Orsino. 8pm SG: Chez Moi.
14 (Tue) 1pm JD: Ivy. 3:30pm costume fitting.
15 (Wed) 7:30pm Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood RC.
16 (Thur) 7pm The Land Girls BAFTA.
17 (Fri) Noon RC Summer School. 6pm Patricia Rozema, film
director. HP plays Sir Thomas Bertram in her Mansfield Park.
8pm KRs.
19 (Sun) 2pm Ga Hornsey.
20 (Mon) 1pm Robert Oresko. 8pm Amnesty meeting.
21 (Tue) 7pm Wertenbaker’s After Darwin Hampstead Theatre.
22 (Wed) 11am Lord’s, with RH, Middlesex v Yorkshire.
24 (Fri) 10:30am MBr interview South Bank Show. 1pm lunch MBr. 6pm
drinks Patricia Rozema. 8:30pm SGs: Chez Moi.
25 (Sat) 6:30pm watches La Grande Illusion.
27 (Mon) 1:15pm Ian Carlyle, theatre critic: Orsino.
28 (Tue) 1pm Jill Johnson. 7pm Red Pepper party, Islington.
29 (Wed) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8:30pm Naipauls: Chez Moi.
30 (Thur) 8pm Ariel Dorfman.
31–8 Aug Kingston Russell.
(Fri–Sat)
August
2 (Sun) First American showing of Lolita, telecast Showtime cable/
satellite channel (BR: W65).
5 (Wed) Correspondence regarding SG’s The Late Middle Classes
(Classes): HP directs, March 1999 (HPA).
10 (Mon) Reading Mansfield Park. 5pm Trevor Nunn.
13 (Thur) Evening Brendels.
16 (Sun) Poem ‘The Disappeared’, Sunday Times (BR: C38; Must:
206–7).
19 (Wed) Naipauls. Letter expressing shock of loss of friend the actor
Derek Newark, Guardian (BR: F36).
21 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
22 (Sat) Signatory petition opposed to Turkish Government’s
denial of Armenian genocide (BR: H45).
23 (Sun) 11am Getty cricket match.
24 (Mon) 1pm JD
25–28 (Tue–Fri) Penzance.
27 (Thur) AF’s birthday. 6:30pm Abbey Hotel, Penzance.
28 (Fri) London.
30 (Sun) 1pm Elizabeth Longford’s birthday lunch, Beauport Park Hotel.
September
1 (Tue) 7pm Albee’s The Play About the Baby Almeida.
19 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
20 (Sun) 1:30pm Ga Sidcup. Signatory letter opposing Red Pepper’s denial
of press credentials by the Labour Party, Observer (BR: H46).
26 (Sat) 8pm EO.
October
1 (Thur) First rehearsal B, directed by Trevor Nunn, Ly.
2 (Fri) 10:30am audio recording VV (BR: J49). 7:45pm Sarah
Kane’s Crave RC.
4 (Sun) 7pm Angela Pleasence, then Ivy.
5 (Mon) 1pm JD: Orsino.
6 (Tue) 8pm Soros.
8 (Thur) End Mansfield Park filming.
9 (Fri) 1pm David Leveaux: Orsino. 8pm Jill Johnson.
10 (Sat) 8pm HP birthday dinner: Ivy.
12–14 (Mon–Wed) Prague, AA performed.
14–19 (Wed–Mon) Vienna (Must: 224–5).
20 (Tue) London. Lunch JD: Orsino. 7:45pm RH’s Equals Divided
Richmond Theatre.
21 (Wed) 3pm Trevor Nunn, NT. 8:30pm SG’s birthday celebration.
22 (Thur) 1pm Michael Colgan, JD: Orsino. 7pm concert Austrian
Embassy.
24 (Sat) 11pm BBC.
26 (Mon) 1pm Ian Rickson: Ivy. 8pm KRs.
27 (Tue) 1:30pm SG: Chez Moi. 10pm Mansfield Park party.
28 (Wed) 8pm GW dinner for Amos Oz.
29 (Thur) 12:30pm Ian Smith: Orsino.
30 (Fri) 1pm MN: Ivy. 4:30pm B run Ly.
November
1 (Sun) 8:30pm dinner Robert Oresko.
2 (Mon) 6pm JD.
3 (Tue) 1pm JBa: Cibo. 6:30pm drinks Longford, House of Lords.
4 (Wed) 1pm Ian Carlyle: Orsino. 6:30pm DJ.
5 (Thur) 7:30pm Donizetti’s Mary Stuart Coliseum.
6 (Fri) 1:15pm SG, JD: Chez Moi. 4:30pm South Bank Show screening.
Signatory letter on Pinochet, Daily Telegraph (BR: H47).
7 (Sat) 8pm bridge.
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10 (Tue) Noon David Thomas, director South Bank Show. 7:30pm
Gala Performance Hackney Empire, Vienna Baroque
Orchestra.
11 (Wed) 6pm Roberto Andò. 7pm B technical detail.
12 (Thur) 6pm Faber party for VV (BR: I9a).
13 (Fri) 11am KR. 8pm B dress rehearsal.
14 (Sat) 7:30pm B first preview.
16 (Mon) Noon records poem for Ariel Dorfman, Channel 4
programme. 2pm B rehearsal. 8:30pm Orlando Fraser:
Sheekey’s.
17 (Tue) 1pm RH: Garrick. 7:30pm B Ly.
18 (Wed) 11:15am meeting RC. 1pm Geordie Greig, journalist: Ivy.
6pm sees MN’s film Primary Colors.
19 (Thur) 1pm Julia Ormond: Orsino.
20 (Fri) 9:30am Orlando Fraser. 1pm French Embassy, lunch for
Jeanne Moreau.
23 (Mon) 6pm NT reading and sound recording B (BR: W41.7).
8:30pm Laura Pels: Sheekey’s.
24 (Tue) 1pm Michael Colgan: Orsino. 7pm B press night. 10pm
company supper.
25 (Wed) 3:30pm Radio 4 PM on Pinochet, also 10:30pm Newsnight
BBC TV.
26 (Thur) 8:30pm SGs.
27–30 (Fri–Mon) Chewton Glen.
29 (Sun) 10:55pm on South Bank Show (BR: K40).
30 (Mon) London.
December
2 (Wed) 7:30pm Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov Coliseum.
3 (Thur) 8pm reading, Queen’s University, Belfast.
4 (Fri) 9pm Rana and Patrick Seale: Chez Moi.
5 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
7 (Mon) 11am Di Trevis: Orsino.
8 (Tue) 1pm lunch RSC.
10 (Thur) 8:30pm Paul Schrader: Ivy. ‘On Pinochet’, Independent (BR: E42).
11 (Fri) 1pm John Peter: Sheekey’s. 6pm Joe Harmston, director, Tom
Rand, set and costume designer.
12 (Sat) 6pm Nikos Dionysios, actor, director. His drama Ephemera based
on HP’s poetry. 8:30pm Naipauls, FWy.
14 (Mon) 8pm Alfred Brendel concert.
15 (Tue) 1:15pm KI: Orsino.
16 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson.
17 (Thur) 1pm JD: Orsino. 9:30pm Fuentes, Natasha and Jean-Pierre

Cavassoni: Mezzanine NT.
18 (Fri) 11am Di Trevis. 6pm JD. 8:30pm MBrs: Le Caprice.
20 (Sun) Initial rehearsal AA, New York. 4.30pm KR.
21 (Mon) 6pm ED. 8:30pm Brendels.
22 (Tue) Noon SG. 6:30pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
23 (Wed) 8pm KRs: Cibo.
24 (Thur) 8pm dinner Soros. BBC Radio 3 production of Julian Maclaren-
Ross’ short story ‘I Had to Go Sick’: HP reading.
26 (Sat) Lunch Fitzgeralds. 8pm SGs: Orsino.
27 (Sun) 8pm Jung Chang, Jon Halliday: Orsino.
28 (Mon) Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
29 (Tue) 1pm JD: Orsino. 6pm ED. 8pm Longfords.
30 (Wed) 1:15pm Joe Harmston: Orsino. 7:30pm B cast dinner: Orso.
31 (Thur) 8pm SGs.
1999
January
1 (Fri) 8pm Hugh Thomas.
2 (Sat) 2:30pm TS’s Invention of Love Haymarket Theatre.
4 (Mon) 7pm BL party.
5 (Tue) 11am HG.
6 (Wed) 11:30am Di Trevis.
7 (Thur) Trevor Nunn.
9 (Sat) New York.
10 (Sun) 1pm KRs.
11 (Mon) Princeton reading.
12 (Tue) KRs.
13 (Wed) 1pm Penelope Prentice. Margaret Edson’s Wit Union Square
Theatre.
14 (Thur) 1pm Simon Schama, historian.
15 (Fri) To Barbados.
27 (Wed) London.
28 (Thur) Lunch JD: Orsino.
29 (Fri) 1pm RH: Orsino.
30 (Sat) 1pm FF. 8pm The Colour of Justice Tricycle Theatre.
31 (Sun) 1pm Damian Fraser.
February
1 (Mon) 2pm auditions, Watford. 9pm Damian Fraser, FF: Cibo.
2 (Tue) 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
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3 (Wed) 1pm Hugh Whitemore: Ivy.

4 (Thur) 1:30pm SG. 4pm auditions.
5 (Fri) 8pm David Halliwell’s Little Malcolm and His Struggle
Against the Eunuchs Comedy Theatre.
6 (Sat) 1pm Peter Soros: Sheekey’s. 4:30pm Kurdish
demonstration, Trafalgar Square.
7 (Sun) 8:30pm Damian and Paloma Fraser: Orsino.
8 (Mon) Interview with John Walsh, Independent (BR: G97).
9 (Tue) 11am Di Trevis. 7:15pm William Yang’s Shadows The Pit.
10 (Wed) 5pm works on Proust stage adaptation.
11 (Thur) 11am HG. 8pm dinner Amanda Foreman, historian.
12 (Fri) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8:30pm SGs.
15 (Mon) 2pm initial rehearsal SG’s Classes.
16–18 (Tue–Thur) Rehearsals Classes.
18 (Thur) BP Salisbury.
19 (Fri) Rehearsals.
20 (Sat) 8pm KRs. On the Kurds, Guardian (BR: E44).
25 (Thur) 6:45pm receives Fellowship, Royal Society of Literature.
27 (Sat) Oxford. 1pm Aline Berlin. 8pm dinner Sir Anthony
Kenny, philosopher.
March
1 (Mon) 10pm DJ.
2 (Tue) 8:30pm RHs.
4 ( Thur) 8pm KRs.
6 (Sat) 10am Charmian Hoare, voice and dialect specialist.
4:30pm Julian Maclaren-Ross reading, BBC. 8:45pm sees
film The Thin Red Line.
8 (Mon) BP opens Richmond.
10 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
13 (Sat) 8pm BP Richmond.
14 (Sun) ‘Proust Found Again’, Observer, 30 (BR: F38).
15 (Mon) BP Birmingham for two weeks.
17 (Wed) 12:30pm JD: Cibo.
19 (Fri) 8pm preview Classes, Watford.
20 (Sat) 1:30pm SG: Orsino. 8pm Classes.
21 (Sun) Filming Mansfield Park.
22 (Mon) 1pm Simon Schama: Sheekey’s. Classes.
23–24 (Tue–Wed) Rehearsals and previews Classes.
25 (Thur) 9pm Dorfmans.

26 (Fri) 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
27 (Sat) 8pm Fitzgeralds. 11:10pm reading Maclaren-Ross, Radio 3.
29 (Mon) 1pm Eric Price, Grove Press: Sheekey’s. 7:30pm James Clarke
concert Purcell Room, QEH.
30 (Tue) 7:30pm Britten’s Peter Grimes Coliseum.
31 (Wed) 12:15pm JD: Sheekey’s. 7:45pm Classes.
April
1 (Thur) 1pm Nigel Redden, theatre administrator: Orsino. 3pm
company call Classes.
3 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
4 (Sun) 8:30pm SGs: Orsino.
5 (Mon) BP Bradford.
7 (Wed) Final performance B NT.
8 (Thur) 8pm SGs: Belvedere. ‘Artists against the War’, Guardian
(BR: F40).
9–13 (Fri–Tue) Visits Czech Republic with DPh.
10 (Sat) Final performance Classes, Watford.
12 (Mon) BP Bath. Classes Brighton.
13 (Tue) Reading at Writers’ Festival, Prague.
14 (Wed) London.
15 (Thur) Cast dinner Classes, Brighton.
16 (Fri) 1pm lunch JBa. 4pm rehearsal.
17 (Sat) 3pm Iraq demonstration Trafalgar Square. 8pm dinner
Fitzgeralds.
18 (Sun) 6pm speaks at Sarah Kane Memorial Service.
19 (Mon) BP moves to Piccadilly Theatre.
20 (Tue) 1pm JD: Orsino. 7pm Troilus and Cressida NT.
22 (Thur) 6pm Stuart Urban, writer. 8pm KRs.
24 (Sat) 1pm family lunch.
25 (Sun) PEN events. 10pm MBis: Orsino.
26 (Mon) Classes in Plymouth. HP, AF visit Cambridge. 7pm BP press
night Piccadilly Theatre.
27 (Tue) 1pm Simone Warner. 4pm Stuart Warner. 8pm Julia
Ormond: Ivy.
29 (Wed) Shoots Counterblast, co-authored by Stuart Urban (BR: K41).
6:30pm dinner Emma Tennant.
30 (Thur) 2:30pm rehearsal. 6pm C Platform NT.
May
1 (Sat) 7:30pm family meeting, Longfords, Fitzgeralds.
2 (Sun) Newspaper, letters, interviews opposing Serbian bombing, and
on the Kurds (BR: F41, 42, G97A).
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3 (Mon) Classes, Bath.

4 (Tue) 7:30pm participant Counterblast programme, BBC2 (BR:
K41).
6 (Thur) 1pm John Pilger: Sheekey’s.
8 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
9 (Sun) 1pm FF, Peter Soros.
10 (Mon) Classes, Woking. 1pm HG: Sheekey’s.
11 (Tue) 7:30pm Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon Almeida.
12 (Wed) 1pm CBr: Orsino. 8pm Lauren Bacall: Le Caprice.
13 (Thur) 8pm dinner Simone Warner. Interview, Guardian (BR:
G98).
14 (Fri) 1pm JBa: Pied à Terre.
15 (Sat) 8pm EO.
16 (Sun) Observer profile (BR: G99).
17 (Mon) 6pm Renos Papadopoulos, authority on trauma, asylum
and refugees.
18 (Tue) Classes, Richmond. Comments on the Serbian bombing
(BR: E45).
19 (Wed) 1pm Patrick Marber: Orsino. 5pm Howard Brenton, Tariq
Ali and Andy de la Tour’s Collateral Damage Tricycle
Theatre.
20 (Thur) 8:30pm SG.
22 (Sat) Final performance Classes, Richmond.
24 (Mon) 4pm records poetry reading.
28–30 (Fri–Sun) Hay-on-Wye.
29 (Sat) Strongs.
30 (Sun) Poem ‘Requiem for 1945’ (BR: C39).
31 (Mon) 8pm FF: Belvedere.
June
1 (Tue) 1pm BF. 7pm Red Pepper fifth anniversary.
3 (Thur) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8pm Was.
5 (Sat) 1pm Wallace Shawn: Le Caprice. 3:30pm demonstration. 7pm
tennis.
7 (Mon) Denounces Nato bombing, Guardian (BR: G100).
9 (Wed) 8:45pm Walter Salles’ (Brazilian film director) Central Station
NFT.
10 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
11 (Fri) 7:30pm TS’s The Real Thing Donmar Warehouse.
12 (Sat) 6pm TA, GG. 8pm Damian and Paloma Fraser.
14 (Mon) 8:30pm SGs.
16 (Wed) 6pm Mansfield Park screening.
17 (Thur) 8:30pm BFs.
18 (Fri) 11am Ian Sinclair. 1pm David Leveaux. 7:15pm Edward Bulwer-
Lytton’s Money NT.
20 (Sun) Watches World Cup Final. 9pm Hugh Thomas: Orsino.
21 (Mon) Noon Rembrandt exhibition, National Gallery.
22 (Tue) 1pm JD.
25 (Fri) HP speech ‘On the Nato Action’ delivered to the Confederation
of Analytical Psychologists (BR: E46).
28 (Mon) 8pm Brendels.
29 (Tue) 8:30pm EO: Pharmacy.
30 (Wed) Wimbledon tennis. 8:30pm Simone Warner party.
July
1 (Thur) 9pm MBrs: Sheekey’s.
2 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
3 (Sat) Final performance BP.
6 (Tue) 7:30pm Bach concert Wigmore Hall.
7 (Wed) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8pm Simone Warner, DJ.
8 (Thur) 11am HP website meeting.
9 (Fri) 1pm Ian Smith.
11 (Sun) 11:30am Ga Shipton.
12 (Mon) 9pm SG.
13 (Tue) 4:30pm Cambridge seminar reading.
14 (Wed) 5pm Stephen Moss, Guardian.
16 (Fri) Lunch Mitsuko Uchida: Sheekey’s.
18 (Sun) 2pm Ga Hornsey. 9pm Fuentes: Pharmacy.
19 (Mon) 8.30pm SGs.
20 (Tue) 8:30pm RHs: Pegasus.
21 (Wed) 1pm Bill Bryden: Orsino. 8pm KRs.
22 (Thur) 1pm MW: Orsino. 7:30pm Osborne’s Look Back in Anger NT.
28 (Wed) 1pm Robert Oresko. 8pm KRs.
29 (Thur) 11am Ian Sinclair. 6pm Patricia Rozema.
30–20 August Kingston Russell.
(Fri–Fri)
August
4 (Wed) 1pm Fuentes.
8 (Sun) 8pm Brendels.
9 (Mon) Naipauls.
12 (Thur) 1pm Damian and Paloma Fraser.
18 (Wed) Working on ‘The Anniversary’ (Celebration (CE); BR: A57).
20 (Fri) London.
21 (Sat) 8pm Oreskos.
22 (Sun) Ga Lloyd’s Register.
23 (Mon) 1pm JD.
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26 (Thur) 5:45pm JD. Works on initial drafts of CE (originally ‘Restaurant’

and ‘The Anniversary’).
27 (Fri) AF’s birthday lunch: Orsino.
28 (Sat) 9pm Hugh Thomas: Le Caprice.
29 (Sun) Bernhurst.
30 (Mon) 8:30pm EO: Orsino.
September
2 (Thur) 12:30pm JD: Orsino. 7pm Amnesty meeting.
3 (Fri) 12:30pm Brian Lang BL.
4 (Sat) Noon TS’s party. Guardian profile (BR: G101).
7 (Tue) 6pm JD.
8 (Wed) 8pm SB’s Happy Days Barbican. Correspondence TS, Sam
Mendes, BB and others regarding what became CE (HPA).
12 (Sun) Inquiries concerning CE (Must: 236).
13 (Mon) 8pm Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love (1732) Almeida.
14 (Tue) 12:30pm Michael Colgan, JD: Orsino. 7pm William Boyd’s film
The Trench.
15 (Wed) 1pm Thelma Wax. 3pm rehearsal AA.
16 (Thur) Noon Almeida regarding production of CE with The Room. 1pm ED.
17 (Fri) 6pm David Leveaux.
18 (Sat) 2:30pm SB’s Krapp’s Last Tape Barbican. 8pm Cuba dinner.
19 (Sun) Ga Sidcup.
20 (Mon) 1pm JD: Orsino. 7pm attends reading Tristan Bates Theatre.
21 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
22 (Wed) 10:30am honorary degree Goldsmiths College, London. 7:30pm
AA.
23 (Thur) 1pm MB: Orsino.
28 (Tue) 12:30pm Gari Jones, director: Pegasus. 6pm Ian McKinnon.
29 (Wed) 8:30pm RH: Orsino.
30 (Thur) 8pm GW’s 80th birthday party.
October
1 (Fri) 1:15pm SG: Chez Moi. 7:30pm Julia Ormond.
4 (Mon) 1pm lunch AF. 8pm KRs.
5 (Tue) 1pm JBa: Orsino. 7pm GW, National Portrait Gallery.
6 (Wed) 1pm JD: Pharmacy.
7 (Thur) 1pm HW: Orsino. 9pm SGs: Chez Moi.
10 (Sun) Paris. 3pm Trahisons (B), translated by Eric Kahane, directed by
David Leveaux, rehearsal. HP birthday dinner.
11 (Mon) Attends Eric Kahane’s funeral. Returns to London.
14 (Thur) 1pm Nina Raine, director, playwright.

15 (Fri) 6:30pm St Paul’s Girls’ School, AKA, OFR.
17 (Sun) 7:30pm Mitsuko Uchida concert RFH.
19 (Tue) Initial Trahisons preview, Paris. 7:30pm Antigone OV.
20 (Wed) To Rome, H production.
21 (Thur) London. SG birthday dinner.
22 (Fri) Cheltenham.
23 (Sat) Reads at Cheltenham Festival, returns to London.
24 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
26 (Tue) 1pm KI: Orsino.
28 (Thur) 6pm Mary Riddell, journalist.
29 (Fri) 12:30pm Michael Colgan: Orsino.
30 (Sat) 6pm GG, TA.
November
1 (Mon) 1pm Patricia Losey.
2 (Tue) 11:40am lunch Lord Mayor of London. 8pm W.S. Graham reading.
3 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson. 7:30pm BL dinner (see Must: 236).
4 (Thur) OT reading, Duke of York’s Theatre.
7 (Sun) 9pm SGs.
9 (Tue) 11am Buckingham Palace, AF receives CBE. 1pm lunch AF: Ivy.
New Statesman interview (BR: G102).
10 (Wed) 6pm GW drinks.
11 (Thur) 1pm RH: Le Colombier. 6pm Brian Friel reception, Irish Embassy.
7:30pm Guatemalan reception.
12 (Fri) 5pm National Public Radio interview.
15 (Mon) HW.
16 (Tue) 1pm KB: Orsino. 9pm dinner Hugh Thomas.
19 (Fri) 6pm American Beauty BAFTA.
21 (Sun) 6:30pm PEN, St Bride’s church service.
22 (Mon) 6pm JD. 8pm KRs.
23 (Tue) 1pm PH: Le Colombier. 6pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
24 (Wed) 7pm opening night EO’s Our Father Almeida.
25 (Thur) 3:30pm production meeting Almeida.
26 (Fri) 6:30pm Mansfield Park screening. 9pm SGs: Ivy.
27 (Sat) AF, HP anniversary.
29 (Mon) 6:30pm reading of Pushkin in translation.
30 (Tue) 1pm Mel Gussow: Pharmacy.
December
1 (Wed) 8:30pm Fuentes: Chez Moi.
2 (Thur) 9pm AF, LM: Le Caprice.
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4 (Sat) 1pm FF, Peter Soros. 9pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
5 (Sun) To Paris, sees Trahisons (B), then back to London.
6 (Mon) 1pm HW: Orsino. 8pm dinner GW.
7 (Tue) 1:15pm SG: Chez Moi. 6pm JD.
8 (Wed) 3:30pm Richard Eyre BBC interview. 8pm KRs.
9 (Thur) 1pm David Leveaux: Le Colombier. 6pm Longford, House of Lords.
10 (Fri) Letter TLS on US foreign policy (BR: F43).
13 (Mon) Noon Charles Wintour (Evening Standard editor) Memorial
Service. Letter Guardian concerning his conscientious objection
to military service as a young man (BR: F44).
14 (Tue) 1pm V.S. Naipaul lunch party.
15 (Wed) 6pm Sheridan Morley.
17 (Fri) 8pm SR and others.
18 (Sat) 1pm Verdi’s Falstaff CGa. 8pm Oreskos.
20 (Mon) 1pm John Casey: Chez Moi.
22 (Wed) 7:30pm Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain Donmar
Warehouse.
24 (Fri) 8pm FF, Peter Soros party.
26 (Sun) 8.30pm SGs, EO: Orsino.
27 (Mon) 7:30pm hears Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna CGa.
30 (Thur) 8:30pm Jung Chang, Jon Halliday. Mel Gussow interview (BR:
G103).
31 (Fri) 9pm SGs.
2000
January
1 (Sat) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8pm KRs.
5 (Wed) Meeting Almeida regarding CE and The Room. 6pm Danny
Dyer, plays the waiter in CE.
7 (Fri) 1pm JD: Orsino. 5pm sees film of Proust’s Time Regained.
8 (Sat) 1pm Tim Roth: Orsino.
10 (Mon) 1pm Elaine Feinstein: Orsino. 8pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
11 (Tue) 11am ED, designer CE.
12 (Wed) 12:30pm Michael Colgan: Orsino. 6pm Red Pepper drinks.
8:30pm MBis: Ivy.
13 (Thur) 1pm Longfords. 8pm KRs.
14 (Fri) 4:30pm HG.
15–29 (Sat–Sat) Barbados.
18 (Tue) Works on King Lear adaptation.
February
1 (Tue) 8pm TS.
2 (Wed) Noon Today programme BBC Radio 4. 1pm Toby Faber,
publisher. 7:30pm Mitsuko Uchida concert Wigmore Hall.
3 (Thur) Works on King Lear. 8:30pm Ian Smith: Orsino.
4 (Fri) 6pm ED, Dany Everett (costumes CE). 8pm Mitsuko
Uchida, Robert Cooper.
5 (Sat) 7:30pm Alan Jay Lerner’s On A Clear Day You Can See
Forever Bridewell Theatre.
6 (Sun) 1pm Damian Fraser, Fitzgeralds.
7 (Mon) 1:30pm initial rehearsal CE, The Room.
8–10 (Tue–Thur) Rehearsals.
8 (Tue) 7:30pm KRs.
10 (Thur) 8:45pm Julia Ormond: Ivy.
12 (Sat) 8:30pm EO: Le Caprice.
13 (Sun) 8pm: Gila Falkus.
14 (Mon) 8pm RHs: Chez Moi.
15 (Tue) 6pm production meeting.
16 (Wed) 11am Jill Johnson. 8pm KRs.
18 (Fri) 12:30pm JD: Granita. 7:30pm Neil LaBute’s Bash Almeida.
19 (Sat) 10:30pm Mojo, HP plays Sam Ross, BBC2.
20 (Sun) Lunch Brendels. 6pm David Mamet. 8pm Seavers.
21 (Mon) 1pm rehearsal. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
22 (Tue) 7:30pm Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol RC.
25 (Fri) 8pm dinner Simone Warner.
26 (Sat) 7pm Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette CGa.
27 (Sun) 1pm Soros. 9pm SGs, Was: Orsino.
March
5 (Sun) 8:15pm Orescos.
9 (Thur) 1pm Ian McDiarmid, director Almeida. 9pm SGs: Chez Moi.
14–18 (Tue–Sat) Technical matters, rehearsals CE, The Room, directed by HP.
20 (Mon) 7:30pm preview. CE and The Room British edition, Faber
(BR A53a; Must: 237).
21 (Tue) 12:30pm MW: Orsino. 3pm rehearsal. 6pm Jack Gelber.
7:30pm preview.
22 (Wed) 7pm press night.
23 (Thur) Visits Kew Gardens.
24 (Fri) 12:30pm Tim Roth: Orsino. 8:30pm SGs: Chez Moi.
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26 (Sun) 1pm Seavers. 7pm Ga dinner.

27 (Mon) 12:30pm Di Trevis: Orsino.
28 (Tue) 12:45pm BFs: Le Caprice.
29 (Wed) 1pm JD: Orsino. 6:30pm Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier CGa.
30 (Thur) 7:30pm sees CE, The Room.
31 (Fri) 1pm MG: Orsino. 6pm company call. 10pm Sam Mendes and
others: Ivy. Finishes King Lear adaptation (see Sharp Cut: 370–2,
456 n. 20; BR: W67).
Spring
Interview with David Edwards (BR: G107).
April
2 (Sun) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
3–4 (Mon–Tue) M read-through for BBC Radio 3: HP plays Andy.
4 (Tue) 8pm MBis.
5 (Wed) 11:45am JD. 7:30pm HW CE, The Room.
6 (Thur) 11am M read-through. 7pm Greek Embassy reception.
7 (Fri) To York. AF receives Historical Association Medal.
8 (Sat) London.
9 (Sun) 8:45pm dinner: Orsino.
10 (Mon) 2:30pm costume fitting. 8pm KRs.
11–14 (Tue–Fri) Rehearsals, shooting SB’s Catastrophe, directed by David
Mamet: HP plays D (Director).
15 (Sat) 10pm Mamets: Ivy.
16 (Sun) To Greece.
18 (Tue) Honorary degree, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BR:
G104).
19 (Wed) London.
20 (Thur) 12:30pm JD. 1pm JD, Nick Starr, Ian McDiarmid: Orsino.
21 (Fri) 7:30pm CE, The Room, with SR.
22 (Sat) 1pm Alfredo Luz, Italian artist. 5pm CE, The Room com-
pany meeting.
24 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
25 (Tue) 11am JD. 1pm Roberto Andò: Orsino. 7:30pm Peter
Nichols Passion Play Donmar Warehouse.
26 (Wed) 12:30pm Critics Circle lunch, Chelsea Arts Club. 6pm To
Dublin.
27 (Thur) Filming John Le Carré’s The Tailor of Panama, Ardmore
Studios: HP plays Uncle Benny. Returns to London. 8pm
BFs, FF, Peter Soros.
28 (Fri) 8pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni.
29 (Sat) 11am Penelope Prentice. 1pm Oreskos. 6pm company
party. 7:30pm last night CE, The Room. 8:30pm SGs: Orsino.
May
1 (Mon) 1pm HW: Orsino.
2 (Tue) 7:45pm RH’s Goodbye Kiss, The Guests, Orange Tree Theatre,
Richmond.
3 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
4 (Thur) 11:30am Anthony Powell Memorial Service
5 (Fri) 1pm MBi: Orsino. 7:30pm Bohuslav Martinů’s The Greek
Passion CGa.
6 (Sat) 9pm Iraq evening.
7–12 (Sun–Fri) In Ireland filming The Tailor of Panama.
15 (Mon) 1pm Thelma Wax. 8pm MBis.
16 (Tue) 1pm Aline Berlin, VR: Chez Moi. 8pm Falkus.
17 (Wed) 9pm Martin Amis party.
18 (Thur) 3pm Francisco Toledo, Mexican graphic artist, exhibition,
Whitechapel Art Gallery. 7:30pm Martin Crimp’s The
Country Jerwood Theatre Downstairs RC.
20 (Sat) 4pm David Gieselmann’s Mr Kolpert RC. 8:30pm SGs: Chez
Moi.
22 (Mon) 5pm Channel 4 News, on JGi’s death. 6:30pm Greville Press
drinks party.
23 (Tue) 7:30pm Frank McGuinness’ Dolly West’s Kitchen OV.
25 (Thur) 1pm Elizabeth Longford. 6pm BL, Brian Lang farewell, then
dinner.
27 (Sat) 4:30pm D Lyric Studio, Hammersmith. 6pm Mitsuko Uchida,
Robert Cooper.
28 (Sun) 9pm MN: Ivy.
29 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
31 (Wed) 8pm EO: Le Caprice.
June
1 (Thur) 6pm Janáček’s Jenůfa Glyndebourne.
2 (Fri) 3:30pm Proust auditions NT.
4 (Sun) 8pm SGs: Orsino.
5 (Mon) 12:45pm Schlesingers. 2:30pm Proust auditions NT. 8pm
Naipauls: Chez Moi.
8 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
11 (Sun) Family.
13 (Tue) 2:30pm auditions NT.
14 (Wed) 2:30pm JD: Orsino. 8pm Freeds.
15 (Thur) 1pm Chris Hudgins, Ann Hall, Katherine Burkman, academics:
Orsino. 8:15pm KRs.
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16–17 (Fri–Sat) At ‘Pinter in London: An International Conference’, Hotel

Russell.
17 (Sat) 1pm Alastair Macaulay. 7pm John Adams’ Nixon in China
Coliseum.
18 (Sun) 8pm Oreskos.
19 (Mon) 11am Francis Gillen. 1pm Penelope Prentice: Orsino. 4pm
auditions. 8pm Dorfmans.
20 (Tue) 1pm Barry Foster: Le Caprice.
21 (Wed) 1pm JBa: Sheekey’s. Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues
Hampstead Theatre.
23 (Fri) 12:30pm JD. 1pm Nigel Redden, Michael Colgan, JD:
Orsino. 7:45pm Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis RC.
24 (Sat) 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
26 (Mon) 1pm Simone Warner. 7pm Johnsons party. 8pm Lauren
Bacall: Chez Moi.
28 (Wed) 5:30pm Proust stage model. 7:30pm Alfred Brendel concert
RFH.
29 (Thur) 1:30pm Ian Rickson. 8:30pm SG.
30 (Fri) 4pm interview Czech TV. 7:30pm hears Placido Domingo
CGa.
July
1 (Sat) 1pm Jill Johnson. 9pm Hugh Thomas.
2 (Sun) 2pm Ga inter-club match.
4 (Tue) Cataract operation.
8 (Sat) 8pm Fuentes. Saturday Night Magazine interview
(BR: G105).
10 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
11 (Tue) 2:50pm sees Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless Gate cinema.
12 (Wed) 4pm Michael Colgan. 8pm FF, Peter Soros.
13 (Thur) 9pm SGs: Orsino.
17 (Mon) 1pm RH: Orsino. Hawthornden Prize Award, Michael
Longley, National Portrait Gallery.
19 (Wed) 1pm Peter Eyre. 6pm Mark Batty, academic.
20 (Thur) Noon International Writers’ Festival RC.
21 (Fri) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8pm KRs.
23 (Sun) 2pm Ga Bromley.
24–25 (Mon–Tue) 11am SA BBC.
26 (Wed) 1pm Carey Perloff: Le Caprice.
27 (Thur) 1pm JD Le Colombier.

28–18 Aug (Fri–Fri) Kingston Russell.
August
18 (Fri) London.
21 (Mon) Plays Mr Bearing in Wit, Emma Thompson and MN
screenplay adaptation of Margaret Edson’s play, directed
by MN, read-through at Pinewood.
24 (Thur) 8:30pm SGs: Chez Moi.
25–29 (Fri–Tue) Cornwall.
27 (Sun) AF birthday dinner: Abbey Hotel.
29 (Tue) London. 6:30pm JD.
30 (Wed) 8pm Damian and Paloma Fraser.
September
On American penal system excesses, New Internationalist (BR: E47).
1 (Fri) 10pm dinner Brendels.
2 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
3 (Sun) Bernhurst, Elizabeth Longford’s 94th birthday.
4 (Mon) 10am Patrick Marber. 1pm JD: Orsino.
5 (Tue) 1pm FWy.
6 (Wed) 7pm Hamlet NT.
8 (Fri) 8:30pm SR.
9 (Sat) 6pm JD. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
11 (Mon) Filming Wit.
13 (Wed) Works on Introduction to Collected Screenplays (BR: B9). 7:30pm
David Hare’s My Zinc Bed RC.
15 (Fri) Milan, Brianza Poetry Prize.
16 (Sat) London. 8:30pm KRs.
17 (Sun) Ga Sidcup. 8pm dinner EO.
19 (Tue) 10:45am initial rehearsal C directed by Patrick Marber.
20 (Wed) 6pm Di Trevis.
27 (Wed) 5:30pm DW rehearsal.
28 (Thur) 8pm dinner Liliane de Rothschild, art collector, philanthro-
pist.
29 (Fri) 6:15pm Patrick Marber.
30 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
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October
Collected Screenplays, Faber (BR: B9).
1 (Sun) BBC Arena interview (BR: K42).
2 (Mon) 2pm initial rehearsal Proust NT.
3 (Tue) 3:30pm sees film Billy Elliot. 7pm Soros.
4 (Wed) 1pm James Clarke, composer: Orsino.
5 (Thur) 6pm Humphrey Burton drinks.
6 (Fri) 3pm Proust rehearsal.
8 (Sun) 7pm tennis. M as radio play, BBC Radio 3: HP as Andy.
9 (Mon) 6pm Faber HP birthday party.
10 (Tue) 8pm 70th birthday dinner: Ivy.
11 (Wed) Noon lunch TS.
12 (Thur) 1pm JD: Orsino.
13–15 (Fri–Sun) CE, The Room, Palermo Festival.
13 (Fri) 2:30pm C run. 7:30pm Euripides’ Alcestis Soho Theatre.
BBC Radio 4 production of SA: HP as Edward, Jill Johnson
as Flora.
16–20 (Mon–Fri) Venice.
20–23 (Fri–Mon) Athens.
21 (Sat) AA, Athens.
22 (Sun) NM, Athens.
23 (Mon) London.
24 (Tue) C initial preview Comedy Theatre. 7:30pm Britten’s Turn
of the Screw Glyndebourne.
25 (Wed) 7pm Elizabeth Longford.
26 (Thur) 1pm lunch Czech ambassador: Orsino.
27 (Fri) 12:30pm Patrick Marber. 2:30pm Proust rehearsal. 8pm
Dorfmans, Emma Tennant.
28 (Sat) Noon JD. 8pm C Guildford.
31 (Tue) 1pm lunch Longford, EO. 8pm SGs.
November
Works on screenplay of The Tragedy of King Lear (not yet filmed). Receives
the Critics’ Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts.
1 (Wed) 11am Michael Colgan. 8:30pm dinner SR.

3 (Fri) New York. 8pm Barbara Epstein.
4 (Sat) 1pm MN. 8pm B cast supper, David Leveaux and others.
5 (Sun) Morning David Leveaux. Returns to London. Patrick
Marber interview, Sunday Telegraph (BR: G106).
7–8 (Tue–Wed) Proust rehearsals.
8 (Wed) 7:30pm C first preview Comedy Theatre.
9 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
10 (Fri) 11am Mark Batty. 2:30pm Proust.

13 (Mon) 1:15pm Mel Gussow. 7:30pm Proust.
14 (Tue) 7pm British Museum.
15 (Wed) Proust rehearsal. 7pm C press night.
17–18 (Fri–Sat) Proust previews.
17 (Fri) 1pm HG.
19 (Sun) Noon tennis. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
20 (Mon) 8pm VR: Chez Moi.
21–22 (Tue–Wed) Proust.
23 (Thur) 7pm Proust opening night Cot.
24 (Fri) 1pm Penelope Prentice: Orsino. 6pm JD.
25 (Sat) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 7:30pm Michael Frayn’s Noises Off NT.
10pm SRs, Padma Lakshmi.
26 (Sun) 7:45pm PH birthday dinner: Ivy.
27 (Mon) 8:30pm SGs, Aline Berlin: Chez Moi.
28 (Tue) 12:45pm RH: Orsino. 6pm Eric Price. 8pm dinner
Michael Pakenham, German Embassy.
29–30 (Wed–Thur) Paris.
30 (Thur) 2pm Le Retour (H).
December
1 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
5 (Tue) 6:30pm Longford drinks.
7 (Thur) 8pm dinner BL.
9–12 (Sat–Tue) Paris.
9 (Sat) 8:30pm RHs.
10 (Sun) 1pm JD. 3pm The Lover and Co Théâtre national de
Chaillot. 8pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
11 (Mon) 11am interview (Libération). 8pm Le Retour Comédie-Française.
12 (Tue) Returns to London.
13 (Wed) 1pm CBr: Orsino. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
14 (Thur) 1:15pm KI: Orsino. 6pm Ian Holm.
15 (Fri) 1pm Jill Johnson. 7:30pm Verdi’s Nabucco Coliseum.
16 (Sat) 7:45pm Caryl Churchill’s Far Away RC.
17 (Sun) Noon JB plaque.
19 (Tue) 7:30pm C cast supper: Ivy.
20 (Wed) 1pm Elizabeth Longford.
22 (Fri) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8pm KRs.
24 (Sun) Dinner FF. Signatory joint letter ‘Stop This Holy Slaughter
Now’ (Observer, News Pages; BR: H52).
25 (Mon) 1pm family lunch. 8pm family dinner.
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26 (Tue) 8:30pm SGs: Orsino.

27 (Wed) 7:15pm Richard II The Pit.
28 (Thur) 8pm Oreskos. Letter ‘On “Heroes and Villains”’ (Independent:
Comment, 2; BR: F45).
31 (Sun) 8pm KRs.
2001
January
1 (Mon) 8pm EO: Orsino.
2 (Tue) Letter, Independent, on censorship (BR: F46).
4 (Thur) 1pm JD: Orsino. 6pm Jill Johnson.
5 (Fri) 1pm Ian Smith: Orsino. 7:30pm Chekhov’s The Cherry
Orchard Cot.
6–7 (Sat–Sun) Dorset.
9 (Tue) 6pm ED. HP and Di Trevis adaptation of Proust’s À la
recherche du temps perdu recorded Cot.
10 (Wed) 1pm LM: Chez Moi.
11 (Thur) 2:30pm Proust. 5:30pm Di Trevis.
12 (Fri) 8:30pm SGs.
13 (Sat) 7:45pm Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning into Butter Jerwood
Theatre Upstairs RC.
15 (Mon) Paris. 7pm readings Comédie-Française.
16 (Tue) London.
17 (Wed) 1pm Michael Colgan: Orsino. 6pm JD.
18 (Thur) 1pm Barry Foster: Pharmacy. 8pm KRs.
19 (Fri) 1pm David Richenthal, lawyer, producer, Di Trevis, JD:
Orsino. 7:45pm Singing in the Rain Ol.
20 (Sat) 7:30pm Brearleys.
22 (Mon) 1pm Simone Warner.
23 (Tue) 1pm Barry Supple: Ivy.
24 (Wed) 1pm JBa: Chez Moi. 7:30pm Mitsuko Uchida concert RFH.
25 (Thur) 1pm South Bank Show Awards.
26 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
27 (Sat) 1pm Hugh Thomas. 8pm dinner DPh.
28 (Sun) 1pm BFs.
30 (Tue) 6pm meeting on Turkey, Conway Hall.
31 (Wed) 8pm Was.
February
1 (Thur) 7:30pm Howard Korder’s Search and Destroy New End Theatre.
10:30pm C dinner.
3 (Sat) 7:30pm C final performance Comedy Theatre.

5 (Mon) 1pm Nigel Williams: Orsino. 7pm Index on Censorship
Awards dinner.
6 (Tue) 1pm JD: Belvedere. 7pm Kevin Elyot’s Mouth to Mouth RC.
7 (Wed) 1pm Susan Hollis Merritt: Orsino. Proust closes Cot.
8 (Thur) 1pm Aline Berlin: Chez Moi. 6:30pm Faber drinks for SG.
11 (Sun) 7:30pm Ga: Orsino.
12 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
13 (Tue) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8pm RHs.
14 (Wed) 10:30am JD. 1pm Hilary Wainwright: Orsino. 8pm SR.
15 (Thur) 1pm Hugh Whitemore: Cibo.
16 (Fri) 3pm Proust rehearsal. 8pm Alistair Beaton’s Feelgood Hampstead
Theatre.
17 (Sat) 1pm Michael Colgan: Orsino. Letter ‘Library Loan’, TLS (BR:
F47).
19–1 March Barbados.
(Mon–Thur)
March
Anne-Marie Cusac interview (BR: G108).
2 (Fri) 6pm JD.
6 (Tue) 1pm JD: Orsino. 7.30pm Conor McPherson’s Port Authority
Ambassadors Theatre.
7 (Wed) 6pm Di Trevis.
9 (Fri) 7:15pm Proust with Fitzgeralds.
10 (Sat) 1pm Schlesinger. 8pm KRs.
11 (Sun) 11:30am Mamet. 8pm Ga dinner.
13 (Tue) 7:30pm Robin Maugham’s The Servant Lyric Hammersmith.
15 (Thur) 1pm Nigel Redden: Orsino. 7:30pm Mamet’s A Boston Marriage
Donmar Warehouse.
16 (Fri) 1pm David Leveaux: Sheekey’s.
17 (Sat) 7pm Rossini’s La Cenerentola CGa.
18 (Sun) 7:30pm Verdi’s Requiem Royal Albert Hall. RHs: Orsino. Writes
poems: ‘Thoughts Before a Requiem’, ‘Who do you think’s more
nervous, you or I?’
20 (Tue) 8:30pm SGs.
21 (Wed) Noon Stanley Spencer exhibition, Tate Gallery. 8pm KRs.
22 (Thur) 6pm Buckingham Palace reception. 8pm RHs, MBis: Cibo.
24 (Sat) 8:30pm SR.
25 (Sun) 8pm TS.
26 (Mon) 7pm National Gallery dinner.
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27 (Tue) 10am hospital appointment.

28 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm BF birthday dinner: Orsino.
29 (Thur) 1pm Ralph Fiennes, David Leveaux: Chez Moi. 6pm BF party.
31 (Sat) 6pm AB. 8pm KRs.
April
2 (Mon) 1pm LM: Orsino. 8:30pm Hugh Thomas: Chez Moi.
3 (Tue) 7:30pm Mitsuko Uchida concert RFH.
4 (Wed) 7:15pm final performance Proust Cot.
5 (Thur) 1pm Thelma Wax, JD. 6pm Roberto Andò.
6 (Fri) 1pm HG: Chez Moi.
9 (Mon) 6pm JG. 8:30pm Soros.
10 (Tue) 1pm JD: Halcyon. 8pm KRs.
12 (Thur) Stockholm. 7pm C.
13 (Fri) London.
14 (Sat) 8pm Ibsen’s Ghosts with EO, Comedy Theatre.
17 (Tue) 1pm JD. 7:30pm Sarah Kane’s Blasted, revival, RC.
19–22 (Thur–Sun) Chewton Glen.
24 (Tue) 8pm KRs.
25 (Wed) 1pm JD. 6pm The Tailor of Panama: HP as Uncle Benny.
26 (Thur) 1pm FWy. 8pm dinner GW.
27 (Fri) 1pm JBa.
29 (Sun) 1:30pm lunch Hugh Thomas.
30 (Mon) 1pm JD: Orsino. 7pm Ian Sinclair drinks. 8:30pm FF: Le
Colombier.
May
1 (Tue) 1pm Michael Colgan, Robin Lefevre, producer OFR.
2 (Wed) 12:30pm Michael Colgan, Robin Lefevre, Ian Holm.
3 (Thur) 1pm Mel Gussow.
4 (Fri) 1pm Rana Seale. 8pm KRs.
5 (Sat) 7:30pm Albee’s Marriage Play Cot.
7 (Mon) Dublin.
8 (Tue) H initial rehearsal. London. Letter, Guardian, on human rights
(BR: F48).
10 (Thur) 1pm JD: Orsino.
12 (Sat) Acceptance speech PEN Award (BR: J50).
14 (Mon) 12:45pm Ian Smith: Orsino. Contributes Guardian ‘My Election’
series (BR: H53).
15 (Tue) 7pm Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades CGa.
17 (Thur) 8pm SGs.
18 (Fri) 1pm Nigel Anthony, actor, director: Orsino. 8pm KRs.
20 (Sun) 6:30pm Katie Mitchell, director MoL, AA and actors in RC production.
21 (Mon) 10am initial rehearsal MoL and AA (BR: A55).
22 (Tue) 6pm ED.

26 (Sat) Charleston, East Sussex Literary Festival.
27 (Sun) London.
30 (Wed) 7pm Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things Almeida. MBi interview
HP on OFR (BR: G109).
31 (Thur) 8pm Michael Seifert, music producer, composer.
June
1 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
2 (Sat) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm supper Soros.
3 (Sun) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 7:30pm Index on Censorship evening
with Ariel Dorfman. ‘Election 2001. I’m Voting For’,
Observer (BR: H54).
4 (Mon) 1pm HW: Orsino.
5 (Tue) 1pm JD.
6 (Wed) 8pm Soros dinner with DJ, Roy Strong.
7 (Thur) Initial preview H. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
8 (Fri) Dublin. 8pm second preview H Gate Theatre.
9 (Sat) 11am H company meeting. Afternoon HP to Oare.
10 (Sun) Oare.
11 (Mon) London. 3pm AA RC. 8pm RHs: Orsino.
12 (Tue) 1pm AA, then GG: Orsino.
13 (Wed) 1pm JD: Orsino. 3pm MoL RC. 8pm KRs.
14 (Thur) 6pm MBi. 8pm BFs.
16 (Sat) Babington House, Somerset.
18 (Mon) 2pm initial rehearsal OFR, AA, MoL RC.
19–21 (Tue–Thur) Rehearsals RC.
19 (Tue) 8pm EO.
21–22 (Thur–Fri) AA, MoL previews RC. 9:30pm SGs.
22 (Fri) 12:30pm JD: Live Bait.
23 (Sat) 1pm DPh.
24 (Sun) 2pm Ga Oxted. 8pm MBis.
25–26 (Mon–Tue) 2:30pm rehearsals.
25 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
26 (Tue) 12:30pm Robert Winder, journalist, Ga member: Orsino.
7pm press night AA, MoL RC.
27 (Wed) 8:30pm SG: Chez Moi.
29 (Fri) 12:30pm Corin Redgrave: Sheekey’s.
July
2–4 (Mon–Wed) OFR rehearsals, previews.
4 (Wed) 8pm EO.
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6 (Fri) 2pm performance. 9:15pm MBrs: Ivy.
7 (Sat) 2pm final performance OFR.
8 (Sun) Ga Shipton. 8:30pm Fuentes: Orsino.
9–10 (Mon–Tue) Rehearsals CE.
11 (Wed) 6:30pm JD.
12 (Thur) New York (Must: 241). 8pm Bob Silvers.
13 (Fri) 1pm Michael Colgan.
15 (Sun) Rehearsals. Mel Gussow interview (BR: G110).
16–27 (Mon–Fri) Lincoln Center HP Festival: Gate Theatre productions
(4), Almeida (3), RC (2): AKA, OFR (HP as Nicholas), H,
L, m, The Room (directed by HP), CE (directed by HP),
MoL and AA. Also ‘Symposia Series’, with a talk by MBi
on HP, three symposia (‘Playwrights on [HP]’, ‘Actors on
[HP]’, ‘Directors on [HP]’ and ‘[HP] on [HP]’ speaking
with Mel Gussow; BR: G112).
16 (Mon) 4pm dress rehearsal. 8pm OFR preview.
17 (Tue) 1pm JD. 8pm opening OFR.
18 (Wed) 8:30pm m rehearsal. H preview.
19 (Thur) 12:45pm Carey Perloff. H opening.
20 (Fri) 8pm OFR. 8pm m opening.
21 (Sat) 1pm KRs. 2pm OFR.
22 (Sun) 6:30pm m. 8pm Dorfmans.
23–24 (Mon–Tue) Rehearsals preview Co, The Room.
25 (Wed) 4pm rehearsal. 6pm L preview. 8pm Co, The Room open-
ing.
26 (Thur) 12:45pm Barbara Epstein. 6pm L opening. 8pm AA, MoL
previews. Guardian cites HP on Serb leader’s trial (BR:
G111).
27 (Fri) 5:30pm Mel Gussow on stage. 8pm AA, MoL opening.
28 (Sat) 12:30pm HW: Orso. Returns London.
31 (Tue) 9:30am BBC Today programme. 4pm ED. 6pm Trevor
Nunn. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
August
2 (Thur) 1pm HG: Orsino. 8pm Oreskos. Guardian letter on legality of
Court trying Serb leader. Guardian interview (BR: F49, G113).
3 (Fri) Longford’s death (see Must: 242).
5 (Sun) 2pm Ga Hornsey.
6 (Mon) 8pm Fitzgeralds.
7 (Tue) 12:30pm Jill Johnson: Belvedere.
8 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
9 (Thur) 1pm RH: Orsino. 8pm Soros: Chez Moi.
10–28 (Fri–Tue) Kingston Russell.

10 (Fri) 11am Longford funeral.
17 (Fri) KRs.
25 (Sat) BFs.
28 (Tue) London.
29 (Wed) 1pm JD: Orsino. 8pm KRs.
30 (Thur) Bernhurst.
Autumn
‘Voices in the Tunnel’, Jewish Quarterly (BR: D14).
September
3 (Mon) 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
5 (Wed) 12:30pm CBr: Orsino.
6 (Thur) 8pm Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lyric Theatre,
Shaftesbury Avenue.
7 (Fri) 1pm Julian Fellowes. 6:30pm BL party to launch HP
Archive website.
8 (Sat) 7:30pm KRs.
9–11 (Sun–Tue) Florence.
10 (Mon) 5pm honorary doctorate University of Florence (see BR:
E50). 9pm receives ‘Premio Fiesole ai Maestri del Cinema’.
11 (Tue) London. New York Twin Towers destroyed (Must: 243).
12 (Wed) 6pm SB films Barbican. 9pm SGs.
13 (Thur) 1pm Nigel Anthony: Orsino.
14 (Fri) 12:15pm John Walsh, human rights activist: Orsino.
15 (Sat) 1pm Jill Johnson. 9:30pm Ian Holm birthday dinner.
16 (Sun) 11am Ga Getty XI, cricket.
17 (Mon) 1pm JD: Orsino. 6pm ED.
18 (Tue) 1pm MBi: Orsino.
19 (Wed) 1pm H rehearsal.
20 (Thur) Signatory letters Independent, Daily Telgraph (BR: H55–6).
21 (Fri) 6:30pm Ian McEwan. 8pm dinner LM.
22 (Sat) 8pm H preview Comedy Theatre.
23 (Sun) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm Fitzgeralds: Cibo.
25 (Tue) 7pm H press night.
26 (Wed) 6:15pm John Walsh. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert
Cooper.
27 (Thur) Noon BBC Newsnight interview. 1:15pm Ian Smith: Orsino.
7:30pm Miller’s All My Sons NT.
28 (Fri) 6:40pm TS’s screenplay of Robert Harris’ Enigma. Guardian
letter (BR: F50).
29 (Sat) 1pm Oreskos. 6:15pm Gari Jones.
30 (Sun) 1pm lunch FF. 8pm Ariel Dorfman, EO.
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October
1 (Mon) 7:30pm Janáček’s Jenůfa CGa.
2 (Tue) 1pm JD.
4 (Thur) 8pm Gary Mitchell’s As the Beast Sleeps Tricycle Theatre.
5 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
8 (Mon) Noon JBa George’s Hotel. 7:30pm RH’s Mahler’s
Conversion Ald.
9–11 (Tue–Thur) Paris.
9 (Tue) 8:30pm Rana Seale.
10 (Wed) 1pm La Grande Cascade. 8pm Natasha and Jean-
Pierre Cavassoni.
11 (Thur) London.
12 (Fri) 8:30pm SGs: Chez Moi.
13 (Sat) 8pm EO: Le Caprice.
15 (Mon) 6pm JD.
16–18 (Tue–Thur) Toronto.
16 (Tue) 8pm HW, MW.
17 (Wed) World Leaders Award, Harbourfront Festival, Toronto.
12:30pm Penelope Prentice.
18 (Thur) 7pm Harbourfront reading.
19 (Fri) London.
20 (Sat) 7:30pm Gregory Burke’s Gagarin Way Cot.
21 (Sun) 8pm dinner Hugh Thomas.
23–26 (Mon–Fri) Rehearsal NM, HP directing, Ly.
27 (Sat) 7:30pm C opens, Oxford.
29–2 Nov (Mon–Fri) Rehearsals NM.
29 (Mon) Noon JD: Le Caprice. 6pm Nicholas Hytner, director,
Ly bar.
30 (Tue) 11am Alan Ross Memorial Service, St Paul’s.
31 (Wed) Cambridge University Press lunch Aldwych Hotel.
November
2 (Fri) 1pm Nick Hughes, NM lighting designer. 7pm KRs.
5–9 (Mon–Fri) Rehearsals NM.
5 (Mon) 8pm GW dinner for AF.
7 (Wed) 7:30pm RH’s TSi film focusing on Wilhelm Furtwängler.
8 (Thur) 7:30pm Mitsuko Uchida concert RFH.
9 (Fri) 7pm Corin and Kiki Redgrave party. Corin played Hirst in
NM.
10 (Sat) 7:30pm Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl Jerwood Theatre
Downstairs RC.
12 (Mon) 1pm TPs.

13 (Tue) Noon JD: Le Caprice. 8pm KRs.
15 (Thur) HP unwell (Must: 244).
16 (Fri) Noon Jill Johnson: Le Caprice.
17–18 (Sat–Sun) Berlin.
18 (Sun) 11am German PEN Hermann Kesten Medal for out-
standing commitment on behalf of persecuted and
imprisoned writers. Returns to London. 8pm Mitsuko
Uchida, Robert Cooper.
19 (Mon) 8:30pm MBis: Orsino.
21 (Wed) 7:30pm Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes Donmar
Warehouse.
25 (Sun) 6:30pm Writers in Prison. 8:30pm KR: Orsino. Discusses
with AF possible sequel to OFR.
27 (Tue) Wedding anniversary: Savoy Grill (see Must: 244).
28 (Wed) 11pm H dinner.
29 (Thur) 7:30pm NM dress rehearsal.
30 (Fri) 7:30pm initial preview NM Ly.
December
1 (Sat) 7:30pm preview. 8pm MBis: Orsino.
3–6 (Mon–Thur) Rehearsals, previews NM.
11 (Tue) Sees screening of Robert Altman’s Gosford Park.
12 (Wed) 1pm Stephen Page, chief Faber executive: Orsino.
13 (Thur) HP ‘diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus ... changed
our lives forever’. 8pm KRs.
14 (Fri) ‘Months of chemo followed’ (Must: 241, 245).
18 (Tue) 1pm HG: Orsino. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert
Cooper.
20 (Thur) Noon Cromwell Hospital.
21 (Fri) Returns home. 6pm JD.
22 (Sat) Very weak. Buys AF present.
24 (Mon) 8pm Soros.
25 (Tue) 1pm Christmas lunch TPs.
26 (Wed) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8pm KRs.
27 (Thur) 11am initial chemo.
28 (Fri) 7:30pm NM.
30 (Sun) AF, HP by the Serpentine (Must: 247).
31 (Mon) 8pm SGs.
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Larkin: Poems, selected by HP; Poems by [HP], chosen by [AF], Greville Press
(BR: H65, I10).
January
4 (Fri) 1pm LM. 8pm EO. Reads AF ‘a sketch’.
5 (Sat) 6pm Gari Jones. 7:30pm KRs. ‘Sketch’ called Press Conference
(PC). HP tells AF ‘I’m not sitting here waiting to die’ (Must:
247–8).
6 (Sun) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8pm Jill Johnson’s birthday party:
Orsino. ‘The Day a Teenage Pinter Defied East End
Fascists’, Observer (BR: G114).
7 (Mon) 1:30pm JD: Le Colombier.
8 (Tue) 6pm Alan Wilkinson.
9 (Wed) 8pm SGs
10 (Thur) 8pm HW: Orsino.
11 (Fri) 8pm KRs.
12 (Sat) 1pm Michael Colgan, Robin Lefevre: Sheekey’s.
13 (Sun) 1pm Damian Fraser.
14 (Mon) 1pm Rana Seale: Orsino. 6pm m Cot, with HW. 8pm
KBs.
15 (Tue) 2:15pm NM Ly.
16 (Wed) 1pm JD. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
17–18 (Thur–Fri) Chemo, night in hospital.
19 (Sat) 8:30pm SGs
20 (Sun) 1pm DPh.
21–22 (Mon–Tue) Chemo.
21 (Mon) Correspondence with Alan Wilkinson regarding The
Catch (HPA; BR: H69).
24 (Thur) 1pm John Peter: L’Escargot. 7:30pm Peter Gill’s The York
Realist RC.
25 (Fri) 1pm HG.
26 (Sat) 8pm KRs.
27 (Sun) HP loses hair, and on ‘horrendous’ diets (Must: 248).
30 (Wed) 1pm CBr.
February
1 (Fri) 1pm JD. 8pm KRs.
3 (Sun) 8pm Fitzgeralds: Orsino.
5 (Tue) 8am endoscopy.
6 (Wed) 8pm KRs.
8 (Fri) Rehearsal Sketches. 6pm gives ‘magnificent performance

in [PC]’ Ly. 8:30pm FF, Fitzgeralds: Le Caprice.
9 (Sat) HP ‘totally exhausted’: acute indigestion.
11 (Mon) Rehearsal, performance Ly. 8:30pm Orlando Fraser, BFs:
Le Caprice.
12–20 (Tue–Wed) HP’s morale very low, ‘terrible days of sickness’ (Must:
250–1).
21 (Thur) 1:45pm Barry Foster’s funeral.
25 (Mon) 8pm KRs.
26 (Tue) HP, AF at Olympia Fine Art Fair.
27 (Wed) 1:30pm SG. 7:30pm Janet Munsil’s Smoking with Lulu
Soho Theatre. 9pm Peter Eyre: Ivy.
March
1 (Fri) 12:45pm Jill Johnson. 7:30pm KRs.
2 (Sat) HP potatoes, ice-cream diet.
4 (Mon) 7:30pm Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg Lyric
Hammersmith. 10pm SGs.
5 (Tue) 10pm Hugh Thomas.
7–8 (Thur–Fri) Chemo, night in hospital.
9 (Sat) 7:30pm KRs.
10 (Sun) 8pm BFs.
11 (Mon) Chemo, ‘bad day’ (Must: 252).
14 (Thur) 1pm JD. 6:30pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham. 8pm
Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper. Poem ‘Cancer Cells’ (BR:
C40).
16 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
17 (Sun) Family christening.
18 (Mon) CT scan. 7:30pm KRs.
21 (Thur) Operation recommended.
22 (Fri) Further hospital consultation. 6pm Arena interview (BR:
K43). 8:30pm SGs: Chez Moi.
23 (Sat) 7:15pm Julius Caesar Barbican.
24 (Sun) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8pm EO. Writes to Daniel to thank him
for asking a mutual friend about his health.
25 (Mon) 8pm KRs. Surgeon warns of ‘high-risk surgery’ (Must: 254).
27 (Wed) 11am Australian Broadcasting Company broadcast (BR:
H58).
29 (Fri) 11am HG.
31 (Sun) 1pm LM: Le Caprice. 8pm Oreskos.
April
Cancer of the oesophagus operation, followed by chemotherapy.
1 (Mon) 7pm Bellini’s La Sonnambula CGa.
2 (Tue) 2pm HG. 8pm KRs.
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5 (Fri) Hospital tests. 7:30pm KRs.
6 (Sat) Signatory Guardian appeal for Middle East peace (BR: H59).
7 (Sun) Bernhurst, attends plaque dedication to Longford’s Hurst
Green church. Composes haiku for AF (Must: 255).
9 (Tue) 11am hospital consultation. 6pm SR. 8:30pm SGs.
10 (Wed) 3pm Arena screening (BR: K43). 7:30pm last performance
NM.
11 (Thur) 1pm DJ.
12–19 (Fri–Fri) Imperial Hotel, Torquay ‘for [HP] to try and get some strength
back before the op’ to remove his tumour (Must: 256).
16 (Tue) NM, Edinburgh.
19 (Fri) London.
21 (Sun) 9pm BFs: Orsino.
22 (Mon) 1:15pm JD.
23 (Tue) NM, Sheffield. 9:30pm Soros.
24–8 May Royal Marsden Hospital.
(Wed–Wed)
24 (Wed) 10am HG. 2pm hospital.
25 (Thur) Operation.
26 (Fri) HP unconscious (Must: 257–8).
May
CE acting edition, Samuel French (BR: A57).
7 (Tue) AF takes HP out for lunch: Le Colombier.
8 (Wed) Discharged, returns home.
10 (Fri) 8pm SGs.
13 (Mon) 8pm KBs.
18 (Sat) 8:30pm Hugh Thomas.
20 (Mon) 6pm Jill Johnson. 8pm EO: Le Colombier.
21 (Tue) 8pm SGs.
23 (Thur) 8:30pm Gila Falkus.
24 (Fri) 7pm Strongs.
25 (Sat) HP walks properly for first time, BF takes him to Holland Park
(Must: 258–9).
26 (Sun) 8pm EO.
27 (Mon) 2:30pm Royal Marsden Hospital.
30 (Thur) 8pm KRs.
June
Awarded CH (Companion of Honour).
4 (Tue) 8pm KB: Ivy.
5 (Wed) 5pm JD.

7 (Fri) 8pm TPs.
11 (Tue) 2pm Euripides’ The Bacchae NT.
12 (Wed) 1:15pm JD: Orso.
13 (Thur) 2:30pm D OV Studio. 8pm RHs: Cibo.
14 (Fri) 8pm SGs: Chez Moi.
15 (Sat) 8pm EO: Chez Moi.
17 (Mon) 8pm MBis: Cibo.
19 (Wed) 11:30am Lucien Freud private viewing, Tate Gallery. HP in
wheelchair (Must: 261). 8pm Gila Falkus bridge.
20 (Thur) 1pm LM. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida: Chez Moi.
21 (Fri) 6pm JD.
22 (Sat) 1pm AKA Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. 8pm KRs.
25 (Tue) 8pm Lauren Bacall.
27 (Thur) 7pm Verdi’s Macbeth CGa. 10:30pm SR: Orso.
28 (Fri) Morning hears that he is ‘cured of cancer’ (Must: 261). 8pm
SRs.
July
1 (Mon) 7:30pm KRs.
2 (Tue) Morning Royal Marsden Hospital. 8:15pm EO: Chez Moi.
4 (Thur) 1pm Jill Johnson: Orsino. 6pm Faber party.
5 (Fri) 7:30pm KR goes to hospital. HP reads AF’s Diaries.
6 (Sat) 8:30pm Fuentes: Chez Moi.
8 (Mon) 1pm lunch for D company: Orsino. 9:30pm LM.
10 (Wed) 11:30am screening OFR.
12 (Fri) Morning HP ‘officially cleared of ... oesophageal cancer’ (Must:
262). 1pm Hugh Whitemore: Orsino.
13 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
14 (Sun) 1pm lunch Hugh Thomas.
15 (Mon) 1pm CBr: Orsino.
17 (Wed) 12:45pm JD.
18 (Thur) 1pm Aline Berlin: Chez Moi. 8:30pm Orlando Fraser: L’Etoile.
19 (Fri) 11:30am cutting room, Sketches (BR: W63).
20 (Sat) 8:30pm SGs.
23 (Tue) 7:15pm TS’s Voyage Ol. 10:30pm TS: Ivy.
24 (Wed) 6:15pm Picasso and Matisse exhibition, Tate Gallery, without
wheelchair. 8:30pm EO: Chez Moi.
25 (Thur) 2:30pm records reading from George Gissing’s New Grub
Street.
26 (Fri) 2pm HG. 6pm JD.
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30 (Tue) BFs.
August
3 (Sat) Fitzgeralds.
10 (Sat) Damian and Paloma Fraser.
13 (Tue) MBis. Signatory Daily Telegraph letter regarding represen-
tation of atheists on BBC programme (BR: H60).
14 (Wed) 1pm Naipauls.
16 (Fri) Francis Warner, EO.
17 (Sat) HP writes ‘Meeting’ poem (Must: 263–4; BR: C41).
19 (Mon) London.
20 (Tue) 7:30pm Much Ado About Nothing Haymarket Theatre.
22 (Thur) 12:30pm JD.
23 (Fri) 12:30pm TA.
24–26 (Sat–Mon) Edinburgh Festival (Must: 264).
25 (Sun) Speaks at Edinburgh International Book Festival (BR:
E51).
26 (Mon) London. Interviews on cancer recovery (BR: G115, 116).
27 (Tue) AF’s 70th birthday (Must: 264–5).
28 (Wed) Ramona Koval interview (BR: G117).
30 (Fri) 7:30pm Nicholas Wright’s Vincent in Brixton Wyndham’s
Theatre.
31 (Sat) Bernhurst, Elizabeth Longford’s birthday.
September
3 (Tue) Evening BFs: Ivy.
6 (Fri) 1pm JD.
7 (Sat) Noon Oreskos. 7pm Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito CGa.
9 (Mon) Morning D rehearsals. 1pm Jill Johnson. 8pm GW dinner for AF.
10 (Tue) 11am Arena interview (BR: K42).
11 (Wed) 1pm Michael Colgan: Orsino. 7pm dinner Philip Ziegler.
12 (Thur) 10am D read-through. 8pm SGs.
13 (Fri) 11am Kerry Crabbe. 6pm TA.
14 (Sat) David Greig’s Outlying Islands RC.
15 (Sun) 11am Getty XI v Heartaches XI.
16 (Mon) 1pm Roger Michell: Orsino. 8:30pm Fuentes, RHs: Le Caprice.
17 (Tue) 7:30pm KRs.
18 (Wed) Lunch SG: Chez Moi. 6pm JD. 8:30pm MBrs Le Caprice.
Signatory stay out of Iraq petition, Guardian (BR: H61).
19 (Thur) 7pm Brian Friel’s Afterplay Gielgud Theatre.
23 (Mon) Begins shooting D for BBC4 showing (7 November 2002).
6:30pm Sam Mendes’ film The Road to Perdition.
24 (Tue) Noon HG: Le Caprice. 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.

26 (Thur) 11am Arena BBC2 documentaries on HP. 1:15pm JD: Orsino.
27 (Fri) 1pm Jill Johnson: Belvedere. 8pm Rana Seale: Chez Moi.
28 (Sat) 7.30pm Caryl Churchill’s A Number RC.
October
1 (Tue) 7:30pm Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya Donmar Warehouse. The
Disappeared and Other Poems, Enitharmon Editions (BR: I11).
2 (Wed) 11am filming D, Shepperton Studios. 8pm KRs.
3 (Thur) 1pm Orlando Fraser: Le Caprice. 3:30pm HG.
4 (Fri) Royal Marsden Hospital.
5 (Sat) ‘After Lunch’ poem (BR: C42).
7 (Mon) 11am Arena HP celebration filming. 12:45pm JD. 7:30pm
Chekhov’s Ivanov Cot.
8 (Tue) 1pm lunch LM. 3:15pm Tony Bevan, painter, Stephen Stuart-
Smith, publisher, Enitharmon Editions. 8:30pm SGs: Chez Moi.
9 (Wed) 7pm Barbican HP film series, C screening. HP on-stage talk with
MBi, Barbican (BR: G119).
10 (Thur) 8pm RHs: Cibo, birthday.
11 (Fri) 11am D, Shepperton.
12 (Sat) 4pm The Servant.
13 (Sun) Noon JD: Ivy. 2pm screening LGD. 4pm GB Barbican.
14 (Mon) 5pm BBC meeting, Lord’s. 8:30pm KBs: Le Caprice.
15 (Tue) 10:30am cut for second part Arena. 7.30pm Westminster Hall
speech on Iraq War.
16 (Wed) 1pm Ian Rickson: Orsino.
18 (Fri) 1:15pm Ian Smith: Orsino. 7:30pm Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession
Shaw Theatre.
20 (Sun) 7pm plays tennis again (Must: 265).
21 (Mon) 1pm KI: Orsino. 7:30pm Berg’s Wozzeck CGa. 9:30pm SGs party.
22 (Tue) Bernhurst. Death of Elizabeth Longford (Must: 265).
23 (Wed) 6pm Red Pepper party. 8:30pm John Peter.
24 (Thur) 4pm Jeremy Paxman Newsnight interview BBC2.
26–27 For a fortnight, ‘HP at the BBC’ BBC2 Arena series: two-part
(Sat–Sun) portrait by Nigel Williams. BBC4: season of HP’s plays, films
and talks. Also items on BBC Radio, BBC1 (BR: K42, 43).
27 (Sun) Bernhurst.
28 (Mon) 10am funeral Elizabeth Longford.
29 (Tue) Signatory joint letter ‘Time to free Vanunu’, Guardian (BR: H63).
30 (Wed) 1pm lunch FF, Peter Soros.
November
1 (Fri) Lunch Hugh Whitemore: Orsino.
2 (Sat) 7pm Jill Johnson.
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4 (Mon) Evening Simone Warner and others.
5 (Tue) 7pm D screening. 9pm Chris Kerry: Cibo.
6 (Wed) 12:50pm made Companion of Honour, Buckingham Palace.
7 (Thur) 1pm Thelma Wax: Orsino. 8:30pm SGs.
10 (Sun) 6pm KR.
11 (Mon) 8pm SGs: Pharmacy.
12 (Tue) 1pm Mel Gussow: Orsino. 7:30pm Johannes von Saaz’s Death
and the Ploughman Gate Theatre. Signatory ‘Hard Choices about
War’, Guardian (BR: H64).
14 (Thur) 1pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham: Le Caprice. 6pm JD.
15 (Fri) 1pm Arena lunch: Orsino. SA Radio 4. 8pm Hugh Whitemore.
16 (Sat) 7:45pm John Whiting’s Saint’s Day Orange Tree Theatre,
Richmond.
18 (Mon) Speaks at University of East Anglia, Norwich.
19 (Tue) London.
20 (Wed) 6pm Stephen Page, Faber.
21 (Thur) 11:30am RH, then 1pm lunch: Orsino.
22 (Fri) 7pm Nicholas Hytner’s Handel’s Xerxes Coliseum.
23 (Sat) 1pm Orlando Fraser. 4pm Miller’s The Price Tricycle Theatre.
24 (Sun) 8pm Hugh Whitemore party for JD.
25 (Mon) 1pm Simone Warner. KR dies.
26–27 Turin.
(Tue–Wed)
27 (Wed) Honorary doctorate, University of Turin. Speech published
Daily Telegraph (BR: E54).
28 (Thur) London.
29 (Fri) Celebrates wedding anniversary (Must: 266–7). To Chewton Glen.
December
1 (Sun) London. Noon KR’s funeral. 6pm sees film of Greene’s The Quiet
American.
2 (Mon) 8pm Jonathan Aitken, former politician, and Elizabeth
(subsequently his second wife).
4 (Wed) 1pm NH: Orsino. 8pm dinner Orlando Fraser.
5 (Thur) 1pm lunch LM. 8pm Tricycle Theatre writers meeting.
6 (Fri) Ga drinks Windsor Castle pub.
7 (Sat) 1pm lunch Fitzgeralds.
8 (Sun) 1pm Gila Falkus: Orsino. 6:30pm sees Roman Polanski’s The
Pianist. 10pm KBs: Ivy.
9 (Mon) 7pm introductory speech Kurdish Human Rights Project 10th
Anniversary Lecture, given by Noam Chomsky, St Paul’s Cathedral
(BR: E53; Must: 267).
10 (Tue) 6:30pm HP Christmas reading for Cancer Relief. 9pm SGs:

Orsino.
13 (Fri) 8pm celebration cancer diagnosis anniversary: Wilton’s.
14 (Sat) 8pm Nigel and Suzanne Williams party.
15 (Sun) 1pm tennis, HP then gives up, finding it ‘too exhausting’ (Must:
268). 8pm Ariel Dorfman.
16 (Mon) 1pm Jill Johnson: Orsino. 3:30pm records reading of his poems,
Audio Workshop.
17 (Tue) 7:30pm Hugh Thomas drinks.
18 (Wed) 11am Today programme BBC studio. 1pm JD: Orsino.
19 (Thur) 1pm Christmas lunch. 8:30pm EO.
20 (Fri) 1pm Ossie Gooding funeral.
22 (Sun) 1pm Gila Falkus and others.
23 (Mon) 8pm SGs: Orsino.
24 (Tue) 6pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham. 8pm TPs.
25 (Wed) Visits Soros.
27 (Fri) London.
29 (Sun) 8pm EO.
30 (Mon) 8pm BF.
31 (Tue) 7pm Cole Porter’s Anything Goes Ol (Must: 268).
2003
HP endorses poems by Anne Wilkinson (BR: H69A).
January
1 (Wed) 1pm lunch Peter Eyre.
2 (Thur) Noon Oreskos. 8:45pm SGs: Pharmacy.
6 (Mon) 6pm CM, ED, Kerry Lee Crabbe, D adaptation.
7 (Tue) 8:30pm SRs.
8 (Wed) 1pm Hugh Whitemore, Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
9 (Thur) 1pm SG: Orsino. 7pm Verdi’s La Traviata CGa.
10 (Fri) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton, actress, bridge.
11 (Sat) Gainsborough exhibition, Tate Britain.
13 (Mon) 6:30pm Stephen Daldry’s film The Hours (screenplay by David
Hare).
14 (Tue) 1pm Penelope Wilton: Orsino. 7pm Jill Johnson.
17 (Fri) 1pm JD: Le Caprice.
20 (Mon) 8:30pm Julia Ormond: Le Caprice.
21 (Tue) 11am lunch CM, Kerry Lee Crabbe. 7pm speech at ‘Don’t Attack
Iraq’ rally (BR: E55).
22 (Wed) 1pm CBr: Orsino. ‘God Bless America’ poem (BR: C43).
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23 (Thur) 11am HG. 7:30pm Lauren Bacall: Hilton Hotel.

24 (Fri) 1pm Hugh Whitemore: Orsino. 8pm Dorfmans.
26–9 Feb (Sun–Sun) Barbados.
February
6 (Thur) HP, RH conversation, Independent (BR: G120).
10 (Mon) 8pm DPh.
12 (Wed) 11am Elizabeth Longford Memorial Service, Westminster
Cathedral. 8pm SGs.
13 (Thur) 1pm JD.
15 (Sat) 3:30pm Hyde Park, speech Anti-Iraq War rally. ‘The Bombs’
poem (BR: C44; Must: 268–9).
16 (Sun) 6pm LM birthday drinks.
18 (Tue) 8pm Vassily Sigarev’s Black Milk RC.
19 (Wed) 5:30pm Chris Bigsby. 7:30pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton, bridge.
21 (Fri) Joint letter ‘Send Aid to Gaza Now’, Guardian, 21 (BR: H66).
22 (Sat) 8pm SGs: Nanking.
23 (Sun) 6pm participates Arts Evening on ‘No War’.
25 (Tue) 11:30am BBC World Service discussion. 8pm EO, FWy: Le
Caprice.
26 (Wed) 1pm KB: Orsino. 7:30pm BBC4 dinner.
27 (Thur) 1pm NFT lunch. 6:30pm dinner Was.
28 (Fri) 1pm lunch Natasha Spender. 8pm Janáček’s The Cunning Little
Vixen CGa.
March
1 (Sat) 8pm Jewish Quarterly discussion, Royal National Hotel.
2 (Sun) 1pm KBs. 7:30pm poetry reading followed by dinner: Sheekey’s.
3 (Mon) ‘To A’ poem performs at Arvon Foundation’s ‘Promises to Keep’
event, Duke of York’s Theatre (BR: C45).
5 (Wed) 1pm Tom Sternberg, producer Sleuth, Jude Law: Orsino (see Must:
photo between 264–5). 6pm JD. 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton,
bridge.
6 (Thur) 1pm Michael Colgan: Orsino.
8 (Sat) 8pm SGs: Chez Moi.
9 (Sun) 8pm Damian Fraser, Rebecca Fitzgerald: Orsino.
12 (Wed) 8pm Brendels: Ivy.
13 (Thur) 8:45am Cromwell Hospital.
14 (Fri) 1pm Jill Johnson. 8:30pm Seavers: Orsino.
15 (Sat) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton, bridge.
‘Democracy’ poem (BR: C46).
17 (Mon) 10am D initial rehearsal Tricycle Theatre.
18 (Tue) 9pm SG: Chez Moi. Signatory ‘A Manifesto for Peace and
Progress’, Guardian (BR: H67).

20 (Thur) Poem ‘Weather Forecast’ (BR: C47).
21 (Fri) 1pm Stephen Page.
23 (Sun) 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.
24 (Mon) 1pm LM: Sheekey’s.
25 (Tue) 1pm MB: Orsino. 8pm Julia Pascal’s Crossing Jerusalem Tricycle
Theatre.
27 (Thur) Noon attends Roy Jenkins (politician) Memorial Service,
Westminster Abbey. 1:15pm lunch Simone Warner, Hugh
Thomas. 6:30pm David Cohen Literary Awards ceremony.
8:30pm SGs: Chez Moi.
28 (Fri) Noon D. 7:30pm Puccini’s Madame Butterfly CGa, with BFs.
29 (Sat) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8pm MBrs.
30 (Sun) 8pm Ga.
April
D novel adapted as a play, Faber (BR: H68).
1 (Tue) 8pm drinks Betsy Reisz.
2–25 (Wed–Fri) Paris (Must: 269).
5 (Sat) 8pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
7 (Mon) 6pm Jean-Louis Perrier, interview Le Monde.
8 (Tue) 10:30am Versailles.
9 (Wed) 5pm photographs, Le Monde. 8pm Austrian ambassador.
10 (Thur) 11:30am to Château de Maintenon, private residence of
Louis XIV’s second wife. 8pm Jean Pavans, French trans-
lator of CE, HP’s poetry and Art, Truth and Politics (ATP;
2006).
12 (Sat) 6pm Jean Pavans, Roger Planchon, French dramatist,
director, filmmaker.
13 (Sun) 1pm Orlando Fraser.
15 (Tue) 1pm Bruno Neveu, French historian. 6pm Jean Pavans.
16 (Wed) HP interview, Le Monde, with Jean-Louis Perrier.
17 (Thur) D initial preview.
20 (Sun) 8pm RHs.
21 (Mon) 1pm BB.
22 (Tue) 1pm Jean Pavans. 8pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
23 (Wed) 7pm D press night.
24 (Thur) 8pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni.
25 (Fri) London.
26 (Sat) 8pm D.
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27 (Sun) 8pm Rachel Billington: Orsino.

28 (Mon) 1pm JD: Orsino. 7:30pm Justin Butcher’s The Madness of George
Dubya Arts Theatre.
29 (Tue) 1pm FWy.
May
2 (Fri) 1pm HG: Orsino. 7:30pm Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s
Tale Coliseum.
5 (Mon) 3pm B initial rehearsal.
6 (Tue) 1pm lunch Simone Warner.
8 (Thur) 1pm Jill Johnson: Orsino. 7:30pm Polly Teale’s After
Mrs Rochester Duke of York’s Theatre. 10pm SGs: Chez
Moi.
9 (Fri) Lord’s, Middlesex v Lancashire.
10 (Sat) 1:45pm Visconti’s film of Lampedusa’s The Leopard.
11 (Sun) 8:30pm Gila Falkus and others: Orsino.
12 (Mon) 1pm LM.
13 (Tue) 8pm D.
14–15 (Wed–Thur) Tom Sternberg, Jude Law discuss Sleuth.
16 (Fri) 7pm Verdi’s Luisa Miller CGa.
18 (Sun) 1pm lunch Fitzgeralds. 8:30pm SGs: Orsino.
19 (Mon) 8pm Mamet’s Sexual Perversity Comedy Theatre.
20 (Tue) 8pm Gila Falkus bridge.
22 (Thur) 11am Hungarian TV interview.
23 (Fri) 1pm lunch John Peter. 7:30pm BL dinner.
24 (Sat) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton, bridge.
25 (Sun) 1pm tennis. 7pm John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer
BBC4.
26 (Mon) 8pm Albert Camus’ Caligula Donmar Warehouse.
28 (Wed) 1pm MG: Orsino. 7:30pm BL dinner.
29 (Thur) 2pm works on Sleuth. 8:30pm dinner Fuentes.
30 (Fri) 12:30pm Hugh Whitemore: Orsino. 2:30pm Sleuth.
8pm SR: Chez Moi.
31 (Sat) 8pm last night D.
June
2 (Mon) 2:45pm Sleuth.
4 (Wed) 1pm Aline Berlin, VR: Chez Moi.
5 (Thur) 11am B run.
6 (Fri) 4:30pm Today programme.
7 (Sat) Noon Writers’ Day. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
9 (Mon) 11am BBC TV Newsnight interview. 5.30pm Cromwell Hospital.
10 (Tue) 6pm NT reading. 8pm Stephen Page, Faber dinner.
11 (Wed) 8:30pm SG: Chez Moi.

12 (Thur) 6pm Pinter Centre launch, Goldsmiths College.
13 (Fri) 6pm Emma Thompson, Betsy Reisz, bridge.
14 (Sat) 12:30pm Frith Banbury. 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.
16 (Mon) 8pm SR, Padma Lakshmi.
17 (Tue) 1pm DJ.
18 (Wed) 6pm BF poetry party. 9pm BFs.
19 (Thur) 1pm JD.
20 (Fri) 7:30pm Ibsen’s The Master Builder Albery Theatre.
21 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
22 (Sun) 2pm Ga Oxted. 8pm SR, Padma Lakshmi.
25 (Wed) 6:30pm KR tribute NT. 7pm Jonathan Aitken wedding party.
26 (Thur) 1pm lunch Gari Jones: Orsino. 9.30pm RHs: Cibo.
27 (Fri) 7:30pm Alfred Brendel concert.
28 (Sat) 7:30pm John Adams’ El Niño Barbican.
29 (Sun) 9pm EO: Orsino.
30 (Mon) 12:30pm Patrick Stewart: Sheekey’s. 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
July
1 (Tue) 11am Tom Sternberg. 8pm HW: Orsino.
2 (Wed) 11am Tom Sternberg. 7:30pm Nick Dear’s Power Ol.
4 (Fri) 1pm Di Trevis: Orsino. 7:30pm first preview B, directed by PH, Bath.
5 (Sat) Noon TS party.
6 (Sun) 12:30pm plaque for Elizabeth Longford, Bernhurst.
7 (Mon) 1pm HG: Orsino. 8:30pm SGs: Cibo.
9 (Wed) Bath, first night, B Theatre Royal.
10 (Thur) London.
11 (Fri) 1pm JBa: Cibo. 8:30pm AB.
12 (Sat) Works on Sleuth.
14 (Mon) Noon French Embassy reception. 8pm Mamet’s Edmond Ol.
15 (Tue) Morning Sleuth. 1pm Simone Warner. 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya
Clayton.
16 (Wed) Sleuth. 1pm FF. 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.
17 (Thur) Cambridge. 8pm Trinity College dinner for VR.
18 (Fri) Scarborough, reading of War, ‘then in dialogue with’ AAy (Must:
271).
19 (Sat) London.
20 (Sun) 1pm Jill Johnson. 5:30pm OFR, PaT Battersea Arts Centre. 9pm
SGs.
21 (Mon) 1pm JD. 8pm Julia Ormond: Le Caprice.
22 (Tue) Noon RC International Playwrights. 1pm lunch Ian Rickson.
8pm BFs.
23 (Wed) 12:30pm lunch BF. 8pm bridge.
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24 (Thur) 1pm LM.

25 (Fri) 7:30pm Coriolanus OV. 10:30pm Patrick Stewart: Sheekey’s.
27 (Sun) 2pm Ga Virgin Nomads.
28–18 August Kingston Russell, works on Sleuth.
(Mon–Mon)
August
13 (Wed) Tom Sternberg, Jude Law.
18 (Mon) London.
21 (Thur) 3:30pm C meeting, Bristol Old Vic production.
24–28 (Sun–Thur) Abbey Hotel, Penzance, Cornwall, Sleuth (Must: 271).
27 (Wed) AF birthday dinner.
28 (Thur) London.
29 (Fri) 8pm SGs.
30 (Sat) 8pm Dorfmans.
September
Works on third draft of Sleuth.
1 (Mon) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
2 (Tue) 1pm JD Notting Hill Brasserie. 8pm BFs.
5 (Fri) 8pm Freeds: Cibo.
6 (Sat) Bristol. 7:30pm C Bristol Old Vic.
7 (Sun) London. 8pm EO.
8 (Mon) 1pm Jill Johnson: Belvedere.
9 (Tue) Noon attends Paul Getty Memorial Mass, Westminster Cathedral.
10 (Wed) 6pm James Clarke.
11 (Thur) 12:30pm Le Caprice.
12 (Fri) 8pm KBs.
13 (Sat) 7:30pm Tony Haygarth’s Dark Meaning Mouse Finborough
Theatre.
14 (Sun) 8:30pm dinner SGs.
15 (Mon) 7pm Mozart’s Don Giovanni CGa.
16 (Tue) 12:30pm Duncan Weldon: Luigi’s. 8pm Betsy Reisz, Gila Falkus.
17 (Wed) 1pm LM: Le Caprice.
18 (Thur) 6pm JD.
20 (Sat) 1pm Rana Seale. 7:30pm Michael Frayn’s Democracy Cot.
23 (Tue) 1pm Lindsay Posner, director: Cibo. 8pm Gila Falkus and others,
bridge.
24 (Wed) 1pm JD Notting Hill Brasserie.
27 (Sat) 8:30pm Oreskos.
28 (Sun) 8pm dinner SGs.

30 (Tue) 2:30pm B dress rehearsal.
October
Works on Sleuth.
1 (Wed) 11:30am BBC Radio interview on Sleuth. 7:30pm initial preview
B Duchess Theatre. 9:30pm JD: Ivy.
2 (Thur) 5pm B photo call. 9pm Tom Sternberg, Jude Law.
3 (Fri) 6:30pm Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov CGa.
4–12 Paris. HP enjoys himself, very involved in opposition to US Iraq
(Sat–Sun) policy.
5 (Sun) 1pm Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni and family. 8pm Rana and Patrick
Seale.
8 (Wed) B opens Duchess Theatre, directed by PH.
9 (Thur) 8pm BF.
10 (Fri) 8pm HP birthday dinner.
11 (Sat) 1pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
12 (Sun) London. 8:30pm SGs.
14 (Tue) 7pm B. 9pm cast dinner: Luigi’s.
15 (Wed) 12:30pm HG: Notting Hill Brasserie. Cheltenham Festival, reads
from his plays (Must: 272).
16 (Thur) 1pm JD: Cibo. 6pm Hugh Thomas, drinks, supper.
20 (Mon) 8pm Orlando Fraser: Le Caprice.
21 (Tue) 8pm MBrs: Ivy.
23 (Thur) 1pm FWy. 6pm Refugee Council event, St Paul’s Church.
24 (Fri) 6pm Ga.
28 (Tue) 1pm JD: Cibo. 8:30pm Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation NFT.
29 (Wed) 1:15pm LM: Wilton’s. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
31 (Fri) 7pm Nicole Garcia’s L’Adversaire BAFTA.
November
1 (Sat) 3pm Red Pepper meeting. 7:30pm Neil LaBute’s The Mercy Seat
Almeida. 9:30pm Sinéad Cusack.
3 (Mon) 8pm dinner Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
4 (Tue) 1pm MG and family: Cibo.
5 (Wed) 6:30pm John Peter party.
6 (Thur) 6:30pm FF party. The Catch: A Correspondence, Evergreen Press
(BR: H69).
7 (Fri) 1pm MBi: Cibo. 8pm Richard Norton-Taylor’s Justifying War
Tricycle Theatre.
9 (Sun) 1pm BFs. 8pm Hugh Thomas.
10 (Mon) 8:30pm SGs: Zen.
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11 (Tue) 1pm JD: Notting Hill Brasserie. Evening Cromwell Hospital

check-up.
12 (Wed) 7:30pm B and then Luigi’s.
13 (Thur) 12:30pm lunch AF: Simply Nico. 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.
14 (Fri) 11:15am JD. 8pm bridge.
17 (Mon) Morning hospital visit. 6pm on The World Today BBC.
18 (Tue) Afternoon visits doctor. 7pm rally against George Bush and Tony
Blair, Friends Meeting House. Letter addressed to President Bush,
Guardian (BR: F52).
19 (Wed) 6:30pm Ken Livingstone’s ‘peace party’, ninth floor of the
‘Gherkin’ (Must: 272–3).
20 (Thur) 6pm Tom Sternberg.
22 (Sat) 7:30pm SB’s Happy Days Arts Theatre, directed by PH.
23 (Sun) 1pm Jill Johnson.
24 (Mon) 7pm BFs.
25 (Tue) 7pm PEN: ‘Personal Wonderlands’, Bloomberg Auditorium,
Finsbury Square. Reads excerpt from Ulysses.
28 (Fri) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
29 (Sat) 7:30pm Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie Donmar Warehouse.
30 (Sun) 8:30pm SG: Zen.
December
Works on Sleuth.
1 (Mon) 4pm JD.
2 (Tue) 1pm Stephen Page.
5 (Fri) 1pm DPh. 2:30pm Sleuth discussion.
7 (Sun) 8pm Lauren Bacall: Wolseley.
10 (Wed) 1pm LM: Wolseley. 8pm Gila Falkus.
14 (Sun) 4pm SR, Padma Lakshmi. 8pm supper Fuentes.
15 (Mon) 7pm Jill Johnson.
16 (Tue) 5:30pm Lindsay Posner, Duncan Weldon. 7pm sees Anthony
Minghella’s film Cold Mountain.
17 (Wed) Dinner Orlando Fraser.
19 (Fri) 8pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni: Wolseley.
20 (Sat) 3pm O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra Ly.
21 (Sun) 8:30pm Hugh Thomas: Zen.
22 (Mon) 6pm JD. 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
24 (Wed) 8pm KBs: Cibo.
25 (Thur) Family Christmas lunch.
26 (Fri) 8:30pm SGs: Wolseley.
28 (Sun) 5:30pm BBC news regarding death of AB.
29 (Mon) 7:30pm Joanna Laurens’ Five Gold Rings Almeida.
31 (Wed) 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
2004
January
1 (Thur) Bernhurst.
2 (Fri) London.
3 (Sat) 4pm Oreskos. 7:30pm Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman Cot.
4 (Sun) 1pm Hugh Thomas. 8:30pm SGs: Wolseley.
5 (Mon) 8pm bridge.
6 (Tue) 1pm JD: Notting Hill Brasserie.
8 (Thur) 1pm Aline Berlin, Peter Eyre. 6:30pm The Catch drinks.
10 (Sat) 8pm dinner EO.
11 (Sun) 1pm BFs. 10pm AF, Almeida.
12 (Mon) Initial rehearsal DW, and other HP pieces, Oxford Playhouse.
15 (Thur) 1pm CBr: Le Caprice. 7:30pm David Hare’s The Permanent Way
Cot.
17 (Sat) 7:30pm B Duchess Theatre. 9pm company dinner: Luigi’s.
18 (Sun) 8:30pm SGs.
19 (Mon) 1pm JD: Cibo.
20 (Tue) 8pm Betsy Reisz: Wolseley.
23–6 Feb Barbados.
(Fri–Fri)
26 (Mon) Coral Reef Hotel, Barbados, with SGs. HP requests to direct new
SG play The Old Masters (OM; Must: 273).
February
6 (Fri) London.
9 (Mon) 1pm JD: Cibo. 6:30pm film interview with Peter Florence, BL.
12 (Thur) 7:30pm initial preview DW, directed by Douglas Hodge. 7:30pm
Thomas Adès’ The Tempest CGa.
14 (Sat) 7:30pm R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End Comedy Theatre. Opinion
on Iraq War (BR: H70).
17 (Tue) 7:30pm press night DW Oxford Playhouse.
18 (Wed) 11:30am interview for WSG Radio (Saratoga and Albany,
New York). 1pm Roger Michell: Ivy. 7pm BF then dinner: Sheekey’s.
19 (Thur) 6pm Dinah Wood, Faber drama editor.
20 (Fri) 1pm Tom Sternberg, Jude Law: Cibo. 8:30pm SGs: Wolseley.
21 (Sat) 6pm ED.
22 (Sun) 1pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham, KBs. 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya
Clayton.
23 (Mon) 12:45pm lunch NH. 8pm Jill Johnson.
24 (Tue) 4pm St Paul’s Girls’ School.
25 (Wed) 1pm lunch: Natasha Spender. 6pm SG. 8pm bridge.
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27 (Fri) 3:30pm ED, SG OM.

29 (Sun) 8pm BFs.
March
1 (Mon) 8pm SG.
3 (Wed) 8pm KBs.
4 (Thur) 6pm ED and others.
6 (Sat) 6pm DJ. 7:45pm ED.
7 (Sun) 8pm dinner SGs.
10 (Wed) 1pm JD: Notting Hill Brasserie.
11 (Thur) 1:30am Newsnight special recorded interview. 1:15pm Edward
Fox, SG: Notting Hill Brasserie. 7:30pm Neil Bartlett’s Oliver
Twist Lyric Hammersmith.
16 (Tue) 1pm Peter Eyre. 9pm BBC Newsnight debate on Iraq (Must: 274).
17 (Wed) 1pm ED. 8pm bridge.
18 (Thur) 3pm SG: Odin’s. 6pm Ned Chaillet.
19 (Fri) 5pm JD.
22 (Mon) 6pm ED. 7pm SG then dinner.
23 (Tue) 1pm Roger Michell: Ivy. 8pm sees Michell’s film Enduring Love,
based on Ian McEwan’s novel.
24 (Wed) Milan. 7pm awarded Diploma ‘ad Honorem’, Teatro dei
Filodrammatici.
25 (Thur) London.
26 (Fri) 8pm SGs.
28 (Sun) 1pm Roy Strong.
30 (Tue) 6:30pm Michael Holroyd drinks.
31 (Wed) 1pm JD. 6pm Barbara Jefford, actress.
April
3 (Sat) 8pm ED: Ivy.
4 (Sun) 7:30pm Ga dinner.
5 (Mon) 7pm Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk CGa.
6 (Tue) 8pm RHs: Wolseley.
7 (Wed) 7pm Edward Fox, PH: Groucho. 9:30pm LM: Odin’s.
8 (Thur) 1pm Jill Johnson: Bush Bar. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert
Cooper.
9 (Fri) 8:30pm Hugh Thomas.
13 (Tue) 8pm SB’s Endgame Albery Theatre.
14 (Wed) 6:15pm Roger Michell, William Dudley, designer, upcoming
Donmar Warehouse OT production.
15 (Thur) 8pm BF Bush Bar.
16 (Fri) 1pm EO.

17 (Sat) Noon JD. 6pm EO.
19 (Mon) 6:30pm reads Philip Larkin’s poems BL.
20 (Tue) 6:30pm Was drinks.
21 (Wed) 6:30pm SG drinks.
23 (Fri) 8pm bridge.
24 (Sat) 9pm SGs.
25 (Sun) 6pm SG.
26 (Mon) 8pm Orlando Fraser party.
27 (Tue) Morning initial rehearsal B prior to going on tour. 8:30pm SR.
28 (Wed) 6pm ED.
29 (Thur) 6pm Geordie Greig.
30 (Fri) 6pm JD.
May
1 (Sat) SG.
2 (Sun) 1pm Hugh Thomas. 7:30pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
3–7 (Mon–Fri) Rehearsals OM.
3 (Mon) 11am ED.
12 (Wed) Noon Westminster School talk.
14 (Fri) 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.
15 (Sat) 7:30pm Hamlet OV.
16 (Sun) 2pm Ga Old Westminster.
18 (Tue) 7:30pm reads three poems from War and by Stephen
Spender at Spender Memorial Trust reading QEH. B at
Richmond.
22 (Sat) 2:30pm OM initial run.
23 (Sun) 5:30pm SG.
24 (Mon) 8pm SGs.
25 (Tue) 8pm Orlando Fraser.
26 (Wed) 8pm HW: Cibo.
28–29 (Fri–Sat) 2:30pm rehearsal run OM.
31–10 June HP Hyatt Hotel, Birmingham for OM (Must: 275).
(Mon–Thur)
June
1 (Tue) Initial preview OT Donmar Warehouse.
10 (Thur) London.
11 (Fri) 8pm SGs.
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14 (Mon) 1pm JD. 7:30pm KBs.

15 (Tue) Dublin. 8:30pm British Embassy.
16 (Wed) 11:30am awarded Honorary Doctor of Literature,
National University of Ireland, Dublin.
17 (Thur) 7:30pm Dublin Writers’ Festival. 9pm Colgans.
18 (Fri) London.
21 (Mon) 8pm Red Pepper evening.
22 (Tue) 1pm OT set. 5:45pm JD office. 6pm MBis: Wolseley.
23 (Wed) Noon Edward Hopper exhibition, Tate Modern. 3pm OT
run. 8pm Betsy Haya.
24–25 (Thur–Fri) Technical details OM Comedy Theatre.
25 (Fri) 7:30pm Freeds.
26 (Sat) 2pm dress rehearsals. 7:45pm initial preview OM.
27 (Sun) 2pm Ossie Gooding, Ga Memorial Match. Writes poem
‘To My Wife’ (Must: 275–6; BR: C48).
28 (Mon) Previews OM.
29 (Tue) 7pm sees film Fahrenheit 9/11.
30 (Wed) Preview OM.
Spring/summer
‘Waiting for Godot: An Unpublished Letter’, Areté, 14: 88–90.
July
1 (Thur) 4pm rehearsal OT, initial preview, Donmar Warehouse. 7pm OM
press night.
3 (Sat) 7:30pm OT preview.
4 (Sun) 8:30pm Hugh Thomas: Bush Bar.
5 (Mon) 3pm OT meeting.
7 (Wed) 7pm OT press night. ‘My Sadness Over Son Who Won’t Speak to
Me’, Evening Standard (BR: G123).
8 (Thur) 12:30pm Jill Johnson. 6pm Faber party. 8:30pm SGs.
9 (Fri) 7:30pm Conor McPherson’s Shining City RC.
12 (Mon) Lunch LM: Bush Bar. 7pm Chilean Embassy reception to mark
centenary of birth of Pablo Neruda.
13 (Tue) 8pm dinner for FWy.
14 (Wed) 1pm Aline Berlin, VR, AF: Wolseley. 6pm BFs.
15 (Thur) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
16 (Fri) 3pm ‘Voices’ BBC. 8pm SGs.
17 (Sat) Evening Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton. HP unwell.
18 (Sun) Emergency medical appointment. ‘The Great Fear is not dead
but sleepeth’ (Must: 276).
19 (Mon) 1pm JD: Notting Hill Brasserie. 6pm BFs.
22 (Thur) 5:45pm BF poetry reading, City of London.
23 (Fri) 8pm Gila Falkus, Betsy Reisz.

26 (Mon) Noon Writers’ Day RC.
27 (Tue) OM rehearsal. 7:45pm Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis Ly.
28 (Wed) 1pm Jonathan Miller, NH: Notting Hill Brasserie. 7:30pm OT,
then cast dinner: Ivy.
29 (Thur) 9pm Damian and Paloma Fraser: Ivy.
August
Geordie Greig interview, Tatler (BR: G124).
2–22 (Mon–Sun) Kingston Russell.
4 (Wed) Awarded Wilfred Owen prize for anti-war poems (Must: 276).
9 (Mon) Noon James Clarke.
17 (Tue) 1pm Naipauls.
19 (Thur) EO, FW.
23 (Mon) London.
24 (Tue) 8pm OM.
25 (Wed) 1pm JD: Notting Hill Brasserie. 4pm rehearsal OM. 8pm
Wolseley.
26 (Thur) 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
27–30 (Fri–Mon) Chewton Glen.
27 (Fri) 8pm AF birthday dinner.
28 (Sat) Last performance OM Comedy Theatre.
29 (Sun) 1pm picnic with BFs. Interview with Kate Kellaway,
Observer (BR: G125).
30 (Mon) London. 7:30pm Fitzgeralds.
31 (Tue) 1pm Roger Michell, William Dudley: Ivy. 7:30pm Betsy
Reisz, Haya Clayton.
September
2 (Thur) 12:30pm Michael Colgan: Ivy. 7:30pm OT.
4 (Sat) Evening OT cast, final performance, Donmar Warehouse.
6 (Mon) 7:30pm Joe Penhall’s Dumb Show RC. 9pm dinner Douglas
Hodge, actor.
7 (Tue) 1pm Terence Rigby: Getti. 8pm dinner SGs.
8 (Wed) 1pm Thelma Wax: Wolseley. 6:30pm National Portrait Gallery.
9 (Thur) 7pm Jill Johnson. Poem ‘The “Special Relationship”’ (BR: C49).
12 (Sun) 8pm dinner JD.
13 (Mon) Lunch Clive Donner: Cibo. 6pm NH.
17 (Fri) 1pm LM: Wilton’s. 8pm supper RHs.
18 (Sat) 7:30pm Euripides’ Hecuba Donmar Warehouse.
22 (Wed) 11am cricket Cross Arrows, Lord’s. 8pm reception French Embassy.
23 (Thur) 11am Julian Rota, bookseller. 1pm lunch HG. 6:30pm partici-
pates in debate on Iraq War, Imperial War Museum (Must: 277).
24 (Fri) 1pm JD: Cibo.
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25 (Sat) 11am Jude Law.

26 (Sun) 1pm Dorfmans. 4pm run-through, then at 7pm
participates in AB Memorial Tribute RC.
27–7 Oct (Mon–Thur) Paris.
27 (Mon) 8pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni.
28 (Tue) 8pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
30 (Thur) 1pm Patricia Losey.
October
3 (Sun) 8pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
5 (Tue) 8:30am Dorfmans.
6 (Wed) 7pm Sofia Coppola.
8 (Fri) London.
11 (Mon) 1pm JD. 7:30pm David Hare’s Stuff Happens Ol.
12 (Tue) 11am HP, Jude Law act out Sleuth.
13 (Wed) 1pm PW. 8pm Gila Falkus.
15 (Fri) 12:15pm hospital scan. 3pm David Inshaw exhibition
with new cricket picture (Must: 277).
16 (Sat) 7:30pm Jill Johnson.
17 (Sun) 1pm Fuentes.
18 (Mon) Dinner Lauren Bacall.
19 (Tue) 7:30pm Molière’s Don Juan Lyric Hammersmith.
22 (Fri) 2:30pm rehearsal.
26 (Tue) 1pm Steve Price, academic: Edera. 7:30pm Becky Mode’s
Fully Committed Arts Theatre.
27 (Wed) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
29–31 (Fri–Sun) Bernhurst.
30 (Sat) Letter ‘Bush and Blair “terrorists”’, Spectator (BR: F54).
November
1 (Mon) 11:30am BBC World Service programme. 8pm O’Casey’s Shadow of
a Gunman Tricycle Theatre.
2 (Tue) 4:30–5pm participates in ‘Naming the Dead’ ceremony, Trafalgar
Square.
3 (Wed) 4pm Roger Michell: Ivy. 9:30pm MB, SGs: Edera.
4 (Thur) 6pm Ga drinks.
5 (Fri) 1pm John Peter: L’Escargot.
6 (Sat) 6pm Gari Jones.
7 (Sun) 7:30pm LM: Princess Garden.
8 (Mon) 11:30am reading of Kenneth Jupp’s Tosca’s Kiss Theatre Royal
Haymarket. 8:30pm MBrs: Ivy.
9 (Tue) 11am rehearsal. 1pm Jupp’s Tosca’s Kiss Theatre Royal Haymarket.
10 (Wed) 8pm dinner EO.

11 (Thur) 1pm JD.
12 (Fri) 7pm RHs.
14 (Sun) 6:30pm PEN. 8:30pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
15 (Mon) 6:30pm remake of The Manchurian Candidate Soho Hotel.
16 (Tue) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
17 (Wed) 7:15pm RH’s adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s Being Julia Sony
House, Golden Square.
18 (Thur) 1pm Maurice Stoppi: Le Caprice. 8:30pm SGs: Edera.
19 (Fri) 1:30pm Michael Colgan: Edera. 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.
21 (Sun) 1pm BFs.
22 (Mon) 1pm CBr: Edera. 8pm JD.
23 (Tue) 7:45pm Stephen Sewell’s Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi
Germany and Contemporary America Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.
24 (Wed) 1pm DPh.
25 (Thur) 8pm EO. HP ‘suffering from diminished energies ... spends a lot
of the day just sitting, not even reading. Worrying’ (Must: 279).
26 (Fri) Chewton Glen.
27 (Sat) HP, AF anniversary. 8pm BFs and others.
28 (Sun) London. 8pm dinner Jung Chang.
30 (Tue) 2:30pm Primo Levi’s Primo, adapted by Antony Sher, NT.
December
1 (Wed) 9:30pm LM: Odin’s.
4 (Sat) 9pm SG: Edera.
5 (Sun) 7pm gala for Rose Theatre, Richmond.
7 (Tue) 6pm TA.
9 (Thur) 7:30pm Jill Johnson.
10 (Fri) 8pm Gila Falkus.
11 (Sat) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
14 (Tue) 3:45pm Hard Talk BBC TV.
15 (Wed) 1pm JD: Belvedere. 8pm KBs: Le Colombier.
16 (Thur) 8pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre Cavassoni: Cibo.
18 (Sat) Final OM Comedy Theatre, then SGs: Le Caprice.
20 (Mon) 1pm lunch FWy.
21 (Tue) 7:45pm Alan Bennett’s The History Boys Ly. 9pm Orlando Fraser:
Wolseley.
22 (Wed) 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
23 (Thur) 4pm HG. 8:30pm RHs: Le Colombier.
24 (Fri) HP cleared of cancer and his leukemia hasn’t extended.
25 (Sat) Family lunch (Must: 279).
26 (Sun) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8:30pm SRs: Wolseley. South East Asian tsunami.
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27 (Mon) 8pm Gila Falkus.

29 (Wed) 6pm BF.
30 (Thur) 8pm EO.
31 (Fri) 7:30pm sees Round the Horne ... Revisited The Venue, Leicester
Square, then dinner: Ivy.
2005
‘Dawn of 2005 [HP] in rather frail health’ (Must: 280).

January
1 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
2 (Sun) 1pm Oreskos, LM. 8pm SRs.
3 (Mon) 1pm JD. 8pm GWs: Wolseley.
5–19 (Wed–Wed) Barbados.
8 (Sat) HP, AF 30 years together.
10 (Mon) HP develops bad chest and cough. ‘Torrential rain’ in
Barbados, where joined by SGs.
11 (Tue) HP ‘reading Chekhov interleaved with Anthony Sampson’
on South African oil companies (Must: 280–1).
20 (Thur) London.
21 (Fri) 1pm JD.
23 (Sun) 1pm Fitzgeralds. 8pm SRs party.
24 (Mon) 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
25 (Tue) 1pm Kenneth Jupp (HP’s tennis partner): Timo.
26 (Wed) 7pm King Lear Albery Theatre.
27 (Thur) 3:30pm HG. 7:45pm O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars
Barbican with BFs then GSQ.
28 (Fri) 6pm Mark Batty.
29 (Sat) 7:30pm Schiller’s Don Carlos Gielgud Theatre. GWs.
February
1 (Tue) 1pm Ian Rickson: Timo.
5 (Sat) 8:30pm SGs: Edera.
7 (Mon) 10:30am initial rehearsal BP.
10 (Thur) 1pm Ian Smith. 6pm Stephen Page, Dinah Wood. News of
Arthur Miller’s death (Must: 282).
11 (Fri) 7:45pm bridge.
12 (Sat) 8:30pm SGs.
15 (Tue) 12:30pm Michael Colgan.
16 (Wed) 8pm RHs: Le Colombier.
17 (Thur) Duncan Weldon: Luigi’s. 7:30pm Rattigan’s Man and Boy Duchess
Theatre, starring David Suchet. 10:30pm dinner Suchet: Luigi’s.
18 (Fri) 1pm JD: Edera.

19 (Sat) 8:30pm SGs: Timo.
21 (Mon) 7pm Caravaggio exhibition, National Gallery.
22 (Tue) 6pm JD.
23 (Wed) 1pm LM: Wolseley.
24 (Thur) 5:30pm Ian Smith, RC. 8pm dinner NH.
25 (Fri) 2:30pm BP. 6pm JD. 8pm DPh.
27 (Sun) Noon Guantanamo gathering. 8pm bridge.
28 (Mon) 7pm RH’s The Dresser Duke of York’s Theatre.
March
3 (Thur) 1pm Jill Johnson: Cotto.
4–6 (Fri–Sun) Aldeburgh Book Festival.
5 (Sat) 5:30pm enacts C (Must: 283).
6 (Sun) London. 8:30pm SGs.
8 (Tue) 1pm JD.
11–12 (Fri–Sat) Birmingham for Lindsay Posner’s BP production.
15 (Tue) 8pm bridge.
18 (Fri) 6pm receives Wilfred Owen Award for poetry.
19 (Sat) 8pm EO Edera.
20 (Sun) 1pm BFs. 8:15pm Hugh Thomas: Timo.
21 (Mon) 6pm JD.
22 (Tue) 1pm HW: Timo. 7:45pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
23 (Wed) 1pm David Inshaw: Belvedere.
24 (Thur) 7:20pm Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler Almeida.
25 (Fri) 1pm BFs: GSQ.
26–1 April (Sat–Fri) Paris.
27 (Sun) 8pm Rana and Patrick Seale.
28 (Mon) BP opens, Bath. 12:30pm BB. 5pm French TV inter-
view. 8pm dinner Gallimard publishers.
30 (Wed) 7pm JD. 8:30pm C opens, Paris, directed by Roger
Planchon.
April
Following return from Paris, HP’s health takes a turn for the worse (Must: 286).
4 (Mon) 6pm Tony Benn’s 80th birthday party. BP, Malvern.
5 (Tue) 7:30pm Tony Harrison’s version of Euripides’ Hecuba Albery Theatre.
6 (Wed) 6pm JD.
7 (Thur) 1:15pm RH: Ivy.
9 (Sat) 9pm supper: DPh.
10 (Sun) 8:30pm Lauren Bacall: Wolseley
11 (Mon) BP, Cambridge.
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12 (Tue) 1pm Max Hastings, journalist: Luigi’s. 3pm interview with

Lawrence Pollard The Culture Show, broadcast BBC2, 21 April,
then to Cambridge to see BP.
13 (Wed) 1pm Jill Johnson. 7:30pm MBrs: Wolseley.
14 (Thur) 1pm JD: Cibo. 7pm Lauren Bacall party.
15 (Fri) 1pm lunch: Edera. 9pm SGs: Edera.
17 (Sun) 7pm PEN meeting Tricycle Theatre.
18 (Mon) 1:15pm Michael Colgan, JD: Groucho. 8pm bridge.
19 (Tue) 1pm lunch: Edera. 6pm GWs.
20 (Wed) 7:30pm initial preview BP Duchess Theatre.
22 (Fri) 6pm BFs.
23 (Sat) 7pm Fitzgeralds buffet.
25 (Mon) 7pm press night BP.
26 (Tue) Noon Pinter Studio, Queen Mary College. 7:30pm Alan Rickman’s
and Katharine Viner’s My Name is Rachel Corrie RC. 10pm BP cast
dinner.
28 (Thur) 6:30pm BF poetry reading.
30 (Sat) 8:30pm SGs: Edera.
May
Final bound draft of Sleuth (HPA).
3 (Tue) 6pm Stephen Page. 8pm Natasha and Jean-Pierre
Cavassoni.
5 (Thur) 8:30pm MBr General Election party.
6 (Fri) 6pm Jude Law.
7 (Sat) 6pm JD. 8pm bridge.
8 (Sun) 2pm Ga Wycombe House. 9pm SGs.
10 (Tue) 1pm KI: Hilton. 10pm MBrs: Luigi’s.
11 (Wed) 1pm David Hare: Sheekey’s. 6pm Ian Rankin, crime
writer, drinks then dinner.
12 (Thur) 8pm Orlando Fraser party.
17 (Tue) 12:45pm JD: Kensington Place.
18 (Wed) 8pm Gila Falkus: Cibo.
19 (Thur) 1pm Philip Mansel, historian: Green’s.
20 (Fri) 1pm Ian Smith: Kensington Place.
22 (Sun) 1pm Bob Gottlieb. 6pm Jude Law.
24 (Tue) 1pm JD Edera. 8:30pm Michael Caine, Jude Law.
28 (Sat) 1pm SR.
29–1 June (Sun–Wed) Chewton Glen.
June
1 (Wed) London.

4 (Sat) TS garden party.
6 (Mon) 12:30pm lunch TA.
7 (Tue) 6pm PA plaque, Westminster Abbey. Was.
8 (Wed) Noon Frida Kahlo exhibition, Tate Modern. 8pm bridge.
9 (Thur) Morning Cromwell Hospital. 8pm Orlando Fraser.
10 (Fri) 1pm SR: Notting Hill Brasserie.
11 (Sat) 8pm SGs.
12 (Sun) 8pm dinner EO.
15 (Wed) 8:30pm dinner Soros.
17 (Fri) 12:30pm CBr, Clive Donner: Cibo. 8pm bridge.
20 (Mon) Morning Cromwell Hospital. 8:30pm SGs.
21 (Thur) 6pm Dinah Wood. 8pm dinner Jung Chang, Jon Halliday.
22 (Wed) 12:45pm JD: Notting Hill Brasserie. 8pm Damian and Paloma
Fraser.
23 (Thur) 7:30pm BP cast drinks. 10:30pm Lindsay Posner: Luigi’s.
24 (Fri) 11am working with Harry (Matthew) Burton and other actors
(Working With Pinter, Burton’s 2007 DVD).
25 (Sat) 5pm Harry Burton discussion. Final performance BP. 8:30pm
Hugh Thomas.
27 (Mon) Finds poem to celebrate Clarissa Avon’s 85th birthday. 7:30pm
BL dinner.
28 (Tue) 1pm LM: Le Colombier. 7:30pm Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls
Piccadilly Theatre.
30 (Thur) 8:30pm RHs: Le Caprice.
July
3 (Sun) 11:30am Mel Gooding Memorial Ga match.
4 (Mon) 6:30pm Aline Berlin.
11 (Mon) Morning doctor. HP coughing badly.
12 (Tue) 1pm BF: Sheekey’s. 7pm dinner Roy Strong.
13 (Wed) 11am Michael Colgan. 1pm Martin Smith Ga: Kensington Place.
8:30pm SGs.
17 (Sun) 1pm Hugh Thomas. 8pm Fuentes: Le Colombier.
18 (Mon) 6pm Alastair Macaulay drinks. 7:30pm As You Like It Wyndham’s
Theatre, then Damian and Paloma Fraser: Sheekey’s.
20 (Wed) 11am Julian Rota. 4pm PH, South Bank.
21 (Thur) HP’s health worse, eats little (Must: 287–8).
23 (Sat) 7pm Michael Holroyd, Margaret Drabble drinks.
24 (Sun) 8pm Oreskos.
25 (Mon) 12:30pm JD. 8pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton.
27 (Wed) 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.
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28 (Thur) 8pm Damian and Paloma Fraser: Le Caprice.

29–11 Aug (Fri–Thur) Kingston Russell.
August
1 (Mon) 1pm KBs.
2 (Tue) Fitzgeralds.
5 (Fri) 1pm David Inshaw.
7 (Sun) 1pm KBs.
10 (Wed) BFs.
12 (Fri) Returns to London to see doctor.
13–19 (Sat–Fri) Kingston Russell.
15 (Mon) Naipauls, FWy, EO.
19 (Fri) London.
22 (Mon) 6pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
24 (Wed) 6pm HG. 8:30pm SGs.
27 (Sat) AF’s 73rd birthday, Bernhurst. HP ‘really worse, eats
nothing ... [has] lost his voice, coughs and splutters all
night long’ (Must: 288).
29 (Mon) London.
30 (Tue) 8:30pm SGs.
31 (Wed) Princess Grace Hospital.
September
14 (Wed) Returns home from hospital following Pemphigus treatment.
16 (Fri) Sees Dr Chris Bunker, dermatologist.
17 (Sat) 6pm Julian Sands, actor.
25 (Sun) 1pm Orlando Fraser. 8pm BFs.
26 (Mon) Noon sees Dr Bunker. HP very unwell, uses a stick; owing to the
steroids his feet start swelling and voice very croaky.
27 (Tue) Gila Falkus, bridge.
October
1 (Sat) 8pm joins AF and Sofia Coppola: Ivy (Must: 288–90).
4 (Tue) 2pm JD: Lucio’s. 8pm KBs.
5 (Wed) 1pm Julian Rota: Ivy. 9:30pm B Radio 3.
6–10 (Thur–Mon) Dublin Pinter Festival.
6 (Thur) Private plane to Dublin. 6pm Michael Colgan. 8pm OT
Gate Theatre.
7 (Fri) 6pm FV.
8 (Sat) 6pm C. HP then reads his ‘Paris’ poem (Must: 290–1).
9 (Sun) 4pm readings from HP’s poetry and prose. 8pm HP 75th
birthday party.
10 (Mon) Afternoon very bad fall, VIP lounge Dublin Airport; to casualty,
needs stitches. 9:30pm VV Radio 3.
12 (Wed) London. HP ‘scarcely able to walk, heavily dependent on a
stick, with a white patch over one eye and a sailor’s cap’ (Must:
291).
13 (Thur) Morning learns won the Nobel Prize, ‘Transforms [his] life forever’.
14 (Fri) Dealing with the media. Afternoon medical check.
16 (Sun) HP exhausted (Must: 291–3). 8:30pm SGs.
17 (Mon) Noon Royal Marsden Hospital, stitches removed.
18 (Tue) 6pm MGa.
19 (Wed) 1pm HG: Lucio’s. 6pm Julian Rota.
20 (Thur) 5:30pm VV RC. 8pm Harry Burton: Le Colombier.
21 (Fri) Morning Royal Marsden Hospital. 1:30pm Lindsay Posner:
Lucio’s. 9pm SG birthday dinner.
22 (Sat) Noon Dr Bunker. 1pm Fitzgeralds.
23 (Sun) 1pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham, BFs.
24 (Mon) 1pm JD: Essenza. 4pm stitches removed.
26 (Wed) Awarded Franz Kafka prize, Prague.
28 (Fri) Reads first draft of Nobel Prize speech to AF (Must: 296). Hospital
tests.
29 (Sat) 1pm GWs: Lucio’s. Works on speech.
30 (Sun) 1pm lunch: Connaught. 8pm Mitsuko Uchida, Robert Cooper.
31 (Mon) Works on speech. 8pm AF: Ivy.
November
Working on draft of Nobel speech, hospital visits.
1 (Tue) Noon Dinah Wood. 1:15pm Jill Johnson: Lucio’s.
3:30pm Dr Bunker. 8pm Gila Falkus, bridge.
2 (Wed) 8:30pm Hugh Thomas: Odin’s.
5 (Sat) Noon JD. 6pm DJ. 8pm Damian Fraser.
6 (Sun) 1pm Alastair Macaulay, LM. 6pm MK.
7–13 (Mon–Sun) Chelsea and Westminster then Royal Marsden
Hospital, intensive care: ‘A terrible period.’
7 (Mon) Prior to hospitalization completes second draft of his
Nobel speech.
9 (Wed) HP out of danger.
15 (Tue) 6pm SGs, JD.
18 (Fri) Noon hospital visit. 5:30pm Michael Colgan. 8pm Jill
Johnson.
19 (Sat) 8pm Michael and Mimi Pakenham.
21 (Mon) 1pm JD (HP’s office).
25–13 Dec (Fri–Tue) Returns to hospital following bad home fall (Must:
295–6).
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December
2 (Fri) Royal Marsden Hospital.
3 (Sat) 2pm SG.
4 (Sun) 3pm records Nobel speech.
7 (Wed) Nobel Prize speech ‘Art and Politics’.
13 (Tue) Returns home, where treated daily by a professional nurse.
14 (Wed) 8pm SGs.
16 (Fri) 6pm Stephen Page, Dinah Wood.
18 (Sun) 6pm HW.
19 (Mon) 6pm JD.
20 (Tue) Noon Swedish ambassador. 6pm Julian Rota.
21 (Wed) 1pm JD.
22 (Thur) 6pm HG.
23 (Fri) 7pm Jung Chang, Jon Halliday.
26 (Mon) 8pm SGs.
28 (Wed) 6:30pm TPs, KB.
30 (Fri) 7pm SRs.
31 (Sat) 6:30pm EO. 7:30pm Betsy Reisz, Haya Clayton. HP ‘This is the
worst year I’ve ever had’ (Must: 298–9). Final entries in his ‘Diaries’.
2006
January
Early January Faber prints limited edition of Nobel Lecture, ATP.
8 (Sun) Gives AF special gifts.
29 (Sun) Letters to and from Tony Blair (HPA).
February
18 (Sat) HP goes to his study to write (Must: 300).
March
10–14 (Fri–Tue) Turin conference ‘Pinter: Passion, Poetry, Politics’.
12 (Sun) In Turin, receives European Theatre Award: in
conversation with MBi ‘I’ve written 29 damn plays.
Isn’t that enough’ (Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk/
stage/2006/mar/14/theatrestage).
27–6 May (Mon–Sat) In Celebration of Harold Pinter Gate Theatre, Notting
Hill. Performances of SA, AKA.
27 (Mon) Lunch Ian Rickson, agrees to perform SB’s Krapp’s
Last Tape, directed by Rickson.
April
9 (Sun) HP painful leg ulcer.
14 (Fri) Cromwell Hospital.
May
Paris: accompanies AF (Must: 302).
9 (Tue) Rehearsal sketch ‘Apart from That’ (Areté, 20, Spring/Summer 5–8).
11 (Thur) Reads ‘Apart from That’ with AF at poetry reading raising money
for young offenders.
June
Late June, with AF sees for second time John Adams’ Nixon in China Coliseum.
23 (Fri) Reads ‘Apart from That’ RC. Interview Kirsty Wark, BBC Newsnight.
July
3 (Mon) Interview David Robinson ‘I’m written out’, Scotsman.
18 (Tue) Celebrates Nobel Prize, takes a box at Lord’s.
25 (Tue) Westbrook House, near Weymouth, for summer holiday.
August
15 (Tue) Ian Rickson visits to discuss Krapp’s Last Tape. Visit leaves
HP ‘very exhausted’ (Must: 304–5).
25–26 (Fri–Sat) At Edinburgh Book Festival.
25 (Fri) Performs scene from BP. Evening ‘Meet the Author’ discus-
sion with Ramona Koval (see www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/
stories/2006/1746077.htm#) (Must: 305).
October
11 (Wed) Dress rehearsal for Krapp’s Last Tape RC.
12–21 (Thur–Sat) HP in a wheelchair ‘amazing’ performance, Krapp’s Last
Tape.
18 (Wed) HP eczema raging in his foot.
21 (Sat) AF gives ticket to Dustin Hoffman who has lengthy post-
performance talk with HP.
24 (Tue) Last Krapp’s Last Tape performance.
November
21 (Tue) BL lunch marking ‘purchase of HP archive’ (Must: 307–8).
25 (Sat) HP ‘“Laughter”, The Saturday Poem’ (Guardian, Review, 23).
December
NWO performed in Polish, Kielce, Poland.
2007
The year plagued by medical problems.

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January
Early January HP and AF at Chewton Glen, HP fell down the stairs and ‘very
shaken’. Subsequently spends a day filming Sleuth, but most of his time
spent reading.
17 (Wed) French Embassy, receives Légion d’honneur, ‘the high point of
what one might term his endgame’.
30 (Tue) Pinter’s People, revue sketches, short HP prose works, runs for a
month, opens Theatre Royal Haymarket.
February
9 (Fri) Harry Burton’s production of DW opens Trafalgar Studios, runs to
24 March.
March
9 (Fri) HP as Max, Radio 3 production of H.
23 (Fri) HP ‘bad day health-wise’.
April
9 (Mon) Accompanies AF ‘special “Tudor Tour”’ National Portrait
Gallery (Must: 309–12).
12–15 (Thur–Sun) Attends with AF ‘Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of
Performing Pinter’, University of Leeds.
12 (Thur) HP receives honorary degree. Evening HW
performs m.
13 (Fri) Pm Belarus Free Theatre performs Being Harold Pinter,
introduced by TS.
14 (Sat) Pm HW and others in The Room.
May
31 (Thur) B Donmar Warehouse opens, runs to 21 July.
June
Reads from Arthur Wellard at Lord’s Taverners’ evening.
July
Writes poem ‘To A’ (Must: 313). ‘The Mirror’, Areté, 23 (Summer/Autumn
2007) [59] prose piece.
11 (Wed) Ho opens Ly, runs to 27 October.
August
8 (Wed) In Dorset, listens to late-night Promenade concert of Bach canta-
tas. This leads AF, HP into a discussion of ‘belief in God’.
September
30 (Sun) Hears Mitsuko Uchida play Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27
Barbican.
October
10 (Wed) HP’s 77th birthday.
11 (Thur) Special showing of Sleuth in Soho. Six Poems for A, Warwick: The
Greville Press, arrives.
12 (Fri) Dinner with KBs, collapses, HP taken to casualty at St Mary’s fol-
lowed by eight days of intensive care. Suffering from ‘prolonged
internal bleeding’ (Must: 315–16).
November–December
Prepares archive for BL transfer.
December
BL completes purchase of HP archive.
16 (Sun) Pre-Christmas lunch.
31 (Mon) Dines with SGs: Café Anglais. SG ‘one of the people in the world
[HP] really loved’ (Must: 318).
2008
January
HP writes brief ‘Introduction’, dated ‘January 2008’, to ‘Fortune’s Fool’:
The Man Who Taught Harold Pinter: A Life of Joe Brearley, TwigBooks, on
behalf of the Clove Club, Association for Former Pupils of Hackney Downs
School: 7–9.
15 (Tue) Attends Granta party, Westbourne Grove. Speaks to Ian McEwan,
Martin Amis.
February
13–27 (Wed–Wed) Production The Lover, Co Comedy Theatre.
March
15 (Sat) Officially hands over archive to BL. Accompanies AF to Birtwistle’s
The Minotaur CGa.
April
30 (Wed) HP among 105 prominent Jews who said ‘We ... will not be
celebrating’ Israel’s May 2008 60th anniversary.
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May
18 (Sun) 50th anniversary performance BP Lyric Hammersmith.
August
7 (Thur) Death of SG. HP, AF at Westbrook House, Dorset. Has profound
impact upon HP.
15 (Fri) At SG’s funeral, reads from T.S. Eliot, then HP, AF organize SG’s
wake at their home. Subsequently HP instructs AF concerning his
own funeral arrangements.
26 (Tue) NM opens Gate Theatre, Dublin. HP, AF attend, MGa in leading
role.
September
8 (Mon) HP shares ‘memories of post-war British theatre’ with Harry
Burton, at The Golden Generation conference, BL.
October
Agrees to become President, honorary fellowship, Central School of Speech
and Drama.
7 (Tue) Dublin production NM transfers to Duke of York’s Theatre, London,
runs to 3 June 2009.
November
3 (Mon) HP ordered to give up drinking alcohol.
11 (Tue) HP has cancerous tumour on his liver (Must: 321–5).
21 (Fri) Very ill.
28 (Fri) Lunches at Luigi’s to celebrate Edward Fitzgerald’s CBE.
30 (Sun) Lunches at Scott’s for Sebastian Barry, Irish dramatist.
December
17 (Wed) Not long to live, can drink again.
21 (Sun) Lunches at Scott’s with KBs and others. Evening watches DVD of
David Hare’s The Reader.
22 (Mon) Collapses, taken to Hammersmith Hospital.
24 (Wed) Early evening HP dies.
31 (Tue) Secular burial for HP at Kensal Green Cemetery. Readings by
MGa from NM and HP’s poem ‘Death’; Stella Powell-Jones
reads a love poem by HP to AF; Matthew Burton reads Francis
Thompson’s ‘At Lord’s’; Penelope Wilton reads from T.S. Eliot’s
‘Little Gidding’; AF reads Horatio’s tribute to Hamlet: ‘Now
cracks a noble heart / Goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of
angels sing thee to thy rest!’ Afterward, drinks at HP’s home, EO,
RH, HW, MB, Michael Colgan and others.
Important dates post-2008
2009
Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2008, London: Faber,
2009.
February
16–20 (Mon–Fri) Radio 3 week of ‘Essays’: tributes to HP. Speakers include
MBi, Harry Burton, Michael Colgan.
22 (Sun) Radio 3 ‘Words and Music: Harold Pinter’: chosen read-
ings and music.
June
7 (Sun) ‘Harold Pinter: A Celebration’ Ol, directed by Ian Rickson.
16 (Tue) Hackney Empire, Harold Pinter Room and Studio naming.
Spring/summer
‘Harold Pinter’ special issue, Areté (Spring/Summer), 160pp., edited by Craig
Raine.
September
27 (Sun) Ga Lord’s Taverners match at Lord’s, followed by ‘A Tribute to
[HP]’, Long Room, Lord’s.
2010
January
11 (Mon) AF Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson.
20 (Wed) ‘Hearing Noise in the Silence: A Celebration of the Life and
Theatre of Harold Pinter’, University of Pittsburgh.
Summer
Collection of HP’s writing translated into Chinese and published by Yilin Press.
2011
Remembering/Celebrating Harold Pinter: The Pinter Review Memorial Volume,

edited by Francis Gillen, University of Tampa Press.
August
8 (Mon) Julian Sands and John Malkovich ‘A Celebration of Harold Pinter’,
Edinburgh Festival.
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October
13 (Thur) ‘Comedy Theatre’ renamed ‘Harold Pinter Theatre’.
2012
September
22 (Sat) AF unveils HP plaque at 19 Thistlewaite Road, Hackney.
Who’s Who
Dame Edith Margaret Emily (Peggy) Ashcroft (1907–91)

Born in Croydon, Surrey. A great actress, when she came on the stage, in the words of
John Gielgud, ‘it was as if all the lights in the theatre had suddenly gone up’. Active in
her commitment to liberal causes, especially the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
she encouraged Pinter to believe that as a dramatist and public figure his political cam-
paigning would have considerable influence. She and Pinter were very close in the late
1960s and early 1970s. Pinter chose her rather than his then wife, Vivien Merchant, to
play the role of Beth in Landscape on the radio in April 1968, directed by Guy Vaesen,
and Ashcroft subsequently appeared in the role in July 1969 at the Royal Shakespeare
Company under Peter Hall’s direction. She was the second voice in Family Voices,
broadcast on Radio 3 in January 1981, and at a National Theatre Platform Performance
under Hall’s direction a month later. Pinter and Hall gave addresses at her memorial
service held in Westminster Abbey, 30 November 1991. She was awarded the CBE in
1951 and in 1956 became Dame Peggy.
Anthony (Tony) Astbury (1940–)

A preparatory schoolmaster at Emscote Lawn School, Warwick, where he taught from
1966 to 1999. Following his foundation in 1975 of the Greville Press, largely devoted
to poetry, Astbury invited Pinter to give a poetry reading in Warwick. Pinter, Lady
Antonia Fraser and he had similar poetic tastes. For example, they considered George
Barker and W.S. Graham to be very important poets: Astbury published their poems
and wrote memoirs of them. The Press, with the help of the Pinters, organized read-
ings by eminent poets at the Purcell Room in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South
Bank in September 1979. Pinter, Lady Antonia and Astbury met regularly, and Pinter
co-edited two Greville Press/Faber anthologies: 100 Poems by 100 Poets (1986) and 99
Poems in Translation (1994). Pinter financed more than 20 volumes published by the
Press, including his own and Lady Antonia’s work and selections from others such as
Poems by Philip Larkin (2002). Just before Pinter’s death the Greville Press published
Six Poems for A [Lady Antonia] (2007).
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (1939–)

Highly successful, prolific comic dramatist, admired for his dramatic construction.
Born in Hampstead, London, he has written and produced over 75 full-length plays.
Between 1972 and 2009 he was artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre,
Scarborough. Since his hit Relatively Speaking, at the Duke of York’s Theatre in 1967,
over 40 of his plays have been produced in the West End, at the National Theatre or
by the Royal Shakespeare Company. He directed his own company at the National
Theatre and was involved during the 1980s, in common with Pinter, in the National
Theatre’s affairs. As was Pinter, he is a great believer in repertory theatre. He played
the role of Stanley in Pinter’s 1959 direction of The Birthday Party in Scarborough. For
Ayckbourn’s recollections of working with Pinter and this production see Observer,
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6 March 1994 (and Ayckbourn’s website: www.alanayckbourn.net). In Must You Go?

Antonia Fraser describes Ayckbourn as ‘extremely amiable’. He was awarded the CBE
in 1987 and knighted in 1997.
(Baroness) Joan Bakewell (1933–)

TV presenter, newsreader, journalist. She was born in Stockport, Cheshire, and edu-
cated at Newnham College, Cambridge. A powerful account of her early years, of her
experiences in the male-dominated media world and of her seven-year affair with
Pinter from 1962 to 1969, conducted whilst each was married to other partners, is
found in her autobiography The Centre of the Bed (2003). The affair with Pinter formed
the basis for his Betrayal (1978) and they continued to meet until just before his death.
Between 1965 and 1972 she presented BBC2’s Late Night Line-Up cultural programme.
A lifelong Labour Party supporter, she was awarded a CBE in 1999, a DBE in 2008 and
in 2010 a life peerage.
Michael Bakewell
Radio and television producer, director, and formerly Head of Plays at the BBC. He
was married to Joan Bakewell from 1955 to 1972 and they had two children. An
early BBC advocate of Pinter’s work, he supported the broadcasting of the 30-minute
unproduced Something in Common in 1958 and The Dwarfs as a radio play, broadcast
in December 1960. He produced the Third Programme broadcast of The Examination
in June 1962 and Pinter’s Revue Sketches (nine sketches) on radio in May 1964. He also
produced Pinter’s reading of Tea Party as a short story on BBC Radio in April 1964 and
was involved with supporting the TV production of A Slight Ache in February 1967.
His friendship with Pinter concluded with Betrayal. However, in 1995 he adapted
Pinter’s Proust Screenplay into a two-hour radio play. For his recollections of working
with Pinter, see Billington: 266–7.
Sir Alan Arthur Bates (1934–2003)

Distinguished actor, born in Derby. Bates won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art. A founding member of George Devine and Tony Richardson’s English
Stage Company at the Royal Court, he was cast as Mick in the Arts Theatre Club pro-
duction of The Caretaker, which opened on 27 April 1960 before transferring to the
Duchess Theatre. Bates subsequently appeared in the 1963 screen version (retitled in
the USA, The Guest). Bates played Ted in Pinter’s cinematic adaptation of L.P. Hartley’s
The Go-Between (1970). In 1976 he played James in a TV performance of The Collection,
which also starred and was produced by Laurence Olivier. Bates had a lengthy associa-
tion with Simon Gray, appearing in 11 of his plays for stage and television. Directed
by Pinter, Bates appeared in Gray’s Butley (1974), and also in the 1974 film version,
Gray’s Otherwise Engaged (1975) and Life Support (1997). Earlier in 1984 he appeared
under Pinter’s direction in One for the Road in the role of Nicolas, and as the driver in
Victoria Station at the Lyric Studio Hammersmith. He was profoundly affected by the
death of his son Tristan in 1990, in whose memory in 1994 he established the Tristan
Bates Theatre, and two years later by his wife’s death. He was awarded a CBE in 1995
and knighted in 2003. Bates died of pancreatic cancer late in 2003.
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906–89)
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He was born in Foxrock,
Co. Dublin, the second child of a quantity surveyor and a dominating mother.
Descended from middle-class Protestant Anglo-Irish stock, Beckett grew up having
the best of both worlds: the urban and the rural. As a youth he showed no fear, rid-
ing motorcycles and was an active sportsman. In 1927 he gained a first-class degree
from Trinity College Dublin where he had read French, Italian and also English lit-
erature. In 1931 his study of Proust was published and he devoted himself to writing.
In 1934 his novel More Pricks than Kicks was published. He began the novel Murphy
whilst in London and this was finally published in 1938 after going the rounds of
the publishers. In that year he settled in Paris and nearly died after being stabbed by
a pimp. During this period he had several affairs and met Suzanne, whom he finally
married in 1961.
In 1940 Beckett joined the Resistance, acting as a liaison officer. His cell was
penetrated and he was on the run with Suzanne from the Nazis in rural France
where he wrote Watt, which was not published until June 1953. Decorated for his
war work, the immediate postwar period was one of frenetic creativity. Waiting for
Godot, written in French in 1948–49, the work that made his reputation for a wider
audience, was performed in January 1953. Peter Hall directed the play, with Samuel
Beckett’s English translation, at the Arts Theatre Club in August 1955. Pinter and Jill
Johnson went to see this production. Before then Pinter was familiar with Murphy
and Watt. He initially encountered Beckett’s work in Poetry Ireland, edited by David
Marcus, in which he found a fragment of Watt and was ‘stunned’ by it. He removed
a copy from Battersea Public Reserve Library and also took out Murphy in 1951 from
the Central Library, Bermondsey, which he kept, and regarded as his only criminal
act. In fact Beckett’s importance to Pinter is seen in the fact that 62 Beckett works
were in Pinter’s library at the time of his death, by far the longest run of a single
author in his collection.
During their first meeting, in Paris, Pinter was rescued by Beckett, who found him
a bicarbonate of soda in the early morning in order to overcome the consequences
of a drinking bout. Beckett’s correspondence with Pinter is to be found in the Pinter
Archive at the British Library (Add. Mss 88880/7/2). Pinter opened the Samuel Beckett
Exhibition at the University of Reading Library on 19 May 1971. Beckett’s profound
influence upon Pinter is demonstrated for instance in Pinter’s work with Barbara
Bray, who was very close to Beckett, on Proust. Pinter appeared in Beckett’s plays and
in radio readings. His last performance on the stage just prior to his death was the
intense, sold-out solo performance in Krapp’s Last Tape in October 2006 at the Royal
Court Theatre Upstairs.
Kevin Billington (1939–)

Theatre, film and television director, from 1961 to 1964 he was a producer on the
BBC Tonight programme. Billington subsequently became a documentary producer for
the BBC and Associated Television from 1964 to 1967 and then freelanced. Billington
produced the first London revival of The Birthday Party (Shaw Theatre, 1974), simi-
larly The Caretaker (Shaw Theatre, 1976) and The Homecoming at the Garrick Theatre
and Jerusalem Festival in 1979. He produced The Lover and A Slight Ache for the
Vienna English Theatre and also the Young Vic in 1987, and Old Times at Dublin’s
Gate Theatre in 1993. His other productions include the national tour of Simon
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Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms in 1992. In 1967 Billington married Antonia Fraser’s sister
Rachel, the eminent novelist and children’s writer, who served as the English PEN
President from 1998 to 2001. They have four children and five grandchildren.
Michael Keith Billington (1939–)

Distinguished drama critic, and biographer of subjects relating to the British theatre,
and broadcaster. The influential The Guardian drama critic since October 1971, he is
known as ‘Britain’s longest-serving theatre critic’, and is Pinter’s authorized biogra-
pher. Born in Leamington Spa, he went to Warwick School and then St Catherine’s
College, Oxford. From 1965 to 1971 he worked for The Times reviewing television and
films; from 1968 to 1978 (the year he married Jeanine Bradlaugh) he also reviewed
films for The Birmingham Post and other papers. In the 1980s he served as an arts
correspondent for The New York Times and, from 1988, as drama critic for Country Life.
Billington presented and participated in BBC Radio 3’s Critics’ Forum and Radio 4’s
Kaleidoscope arts programme. He has also appeared on many radio and TV arts and
drama broadcasts, and moderated many public forums in which Pinter appeared.
A visiting Professor in Drama at King’s College, London and at American universities,
he organized the international symposium ‘Pinter: Passion, Poetry’, celebrating the
award of the Europa Theatre Prize to Pinter in Turin, March 2006. Billington’s critical
work and biographies include Alan Ayckbourn (1984), Stoppard: The Playwright (1987)
and Peggy Ashcroft (1988). His definitive authorized biography The Life and Work of
Harold Pinter appeared in 1996 and a new revised updated edition Harold Pinter in
2007. Billington’s State of the Nation: British Theatre won the 2007 Theatre Book Prize
from the Society for Theatre Research. He was awarded the OBE in 2013.
Claire Bloom (1931–)

The actress Claire Bloom was born in Finchley, North London. She went to the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Central School of Speech and Drama.
She has had many radio and TV, theatre and film appearances on both sides of
the Atlantic, and gained acclaim early in her stage career in 1948 as an outstand-
ing Ophelia. She appeared as Miss Bolton in the October 1976 Broadway revival of
William Archibald’s The Innocents under Harold Pinter’s direction. She gained a BAFTA
Award for best actress as Joy Gresham, C.S. Lewis’ wife, in Shadowlands (1985). She was
a longtime companion of Philip Roth, whom she married in 1990; they divorced in
1995. Her Leaving a Doll’s House: A Memoir (1996) describes in considerable detail her
relationship with Roth and others. He responded with I Married a Communist (1998).
She appears in Antonia Fraser’s Must You Go? as a dining companion, often with Roth.
(Baron) Melvyn Bragg (1939–)

Broadcaster, novelist, prose fiction writer, producer. Bragg was born in Carlisle and
read Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the BBC in 1961, where
he worked until the mid-1970s. Bragg gained acclaim for his London Weekend TV arts
programme The South Bank Show (1978–2010) and for Start of the Week on BBC Radio 4
(1988–98). His TV and film screenplays include The Music Lovers (1970). Remember Me
(2008) belongs to a series of autobiographical fictions. A Labour Party supporter and
friend of the Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, he was granted a life peerage in 1998
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and sits in the House of Lords. His first wife, whom he married in 1961, committed
suicide in 1971; he remarried in 1973. Bragg frequently visited the Pinters’ home and
was a regular dining companion.
Barbara Bray (1924–2010)

Translator, critic, producer and close friend of Samuel Beckett, with whom she
enjoyed a triangular relationship after his marriage. Barbara Jacobs grew up in Maida
Vale, West London, and Harrow. She read English at Girton College, Cambridge,
and also studied French and Italian. She gained a first-class degree and married the
Australian-born John Bray. In 1953 she became a script editor for the BBC Third
Programme where she commissioned and translated avant-garde writing, including
Beckett and others. She greatly encouraged the early work of Pinter and he was grate-
ful to her throughout his life for her crucial early support. She commissioned for radio
A Slight Ache, A Night Out and The Dwarfs, which she directed as a radio play late in
December 1960. From 1961 onward she lived in Paris as a freelance translator, known
for translating Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, Julia Kristeva, Jean Genet and others. She
was awarded the PEN translation prize in 1980 and was four times the recipient of
the prestigious Scott Moncrieff translation prize. She worked with Joseph Losey and
Pinter on their Proust translation: the screenplay was not filmed but she assisted with
the 1995 radio production. Later on in her career she co-founded a Paris-based theatre
company where she directed lesser-known works by Pinter and Beckett.
Joseph ( Joe) Brearley (1909–77)

In his Introduction to ‘Fortune’s Fool’: The Man Who Taught Harold Pinter: A Life of
Joe Brearley (2008) Pinter remembers that his teacher ‘was an inspirational force’.
From a strongly Methodist Yorkshire middle-class family, Brearley was educated at
Batley Grammar School. He gained a place at St John’s College, Cambridge to read
English, came under the influence of I.A. Richards and F.R. Leavis and also spent
time in Germany. He was a lover of music, especially of Bach and Wagner, and
had a fine voice. Brearley started his teaching career at Collyer’s School, Horsham,
where he taught from 1932 to 1939. He then moved to Hackney Downs Grammar
School. During the war he was called up to serve in the RAF. After being torpedoed
at sea Brearley suffered from malaria. Returning to Hackney Downs after the war,
in 1953 he became deputy head of the school. Following retirement in 1971 he
moved to Germany where he met the much younger Mara: they spent the rest of
his life together. His pupils at Hackney Downs included Pinter, Henry Woolf, Moishe
(Morris) Wernick and a host of others whose debt to him is expressed in Fortune’s Fool.
Brearley cast Pinter in leading roles in Macbeth (1947) and then in Romeo and Juliet
the following summer. During Pinter’s schooldays, Brearley and Pinter embarked
on a series of long walks in North London, which continued for years, and they
remained great friends. Initially their lives were dominated by Shakespeare; how-
ever, as Pinter comments, ‘the revelation which Joe brought with him was John
Webster’. Brearley supported Pinter’s decision to register as a conscientious objector.
When Pinter started to write plays Brearley’s ‘reactions to them were immensely
rich’. Brearley visited Pinter in Worthing in 1964 and praised The Homecoming.
When Brearley died, Pinter wrote one of his most moving poems entitled ‘Joseph
Brearley 1909–1977 (Teacher of English)’.
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Dr Christopher Brookes (1945–)

Educated at Manchester and Leicester Universities, he has been employed in various
organizations, in various locations. He is the author of two books on cricket. The
first, English Cricket: The Game and Its Players through the Ages (1978), was based on
his University of Leicester doctoral thesis. The second was His Own Man: The Life of
Neville Cardus (1985). Brookes first met Pinter in late 1972 at the Middlesex County
Cricket Club indoor school in North London. Brookes writes that it was ‘a wet, cold
Saturday morning and I was feeling terrible. Harold – who had just taken over the
captaincy of the Gaieties Cricket Club – assessed my potential for some time before
concluding that I might become a member of his team. We shared both a deep love
of cricket and an often decidedly irreverent view of many aspects of formal conven-
tion. In 1976 I succeeded him as captain after a slight disagreement during a match,
an event that – despite what others might have assumed – did nothing to undermine
a close friendship that lasted until his death in 2008. In addition to cricket, we also
played tennis and bridge together on many, many occasions, and lunched together
frequently. Through him, I came to enjoy and appreciate worlds and people that other-
wise I could never have expected to experience. For that, as for his friendship, I will
always be greatly in his debt’ (personal communication, 17 April 2013).
Michael Victor Codron (1930–)

Eminent theatrical and film producer, director and theatrical impresario, Codron
grew up in North London. He was educated at St Paul’s School and Worcester College,
Oxford, where, as Codron documents in his biography written with Alan Strachan,
Putting It On: The West End Theatre of Michael Codron (2010), he spent most of his time
in the theatre rather than reading History. In January 1958 he met Pinter through
the good offices of Jimmy Wax, and gave Pinter a ₤50 option on what became The
Birthday Party. He also supported the young Pinter by commissions to contribute to
revues such as Pieces of Eight in 1959 and agreed to put on The Caretaker at the Arts
Theatre: its commercial success came at a difficult time for Codron. He also produced
The Dwarfs (1960) and The Lover (1962) in a double bill. This led to an estrangement
between Codron and Pinter: they reconciled when Codron asked Pinter to direct
Simon Gray’s Butley in 1971. Codron was also a formative influence and support
in the careers of Tom Stoppard, Gray, David Hare, Alan Ayckbourn and others. The
recipient of three Tony Awards and numerous nominations, in 2010 Codron was
given the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement, for being ‘one of the
West End’s most influential producers’ and ‘discovering Harold Pinter’. From 1983 to
1996, with his partner David Sutton, Codron owned the Vaudeville Theatre and cur-
rently owns the Aldwych in the West End. Codron was awarded an OBE in 1989, and
was Professor of Contemporary Drama at Oxford 1992–93.
Judy Daish
Literary agent. A protégée of Jimmy Wax, for whom she worked for five years prior to
setting up her own agency, she became Pinter’s agent in 1983 following Wax’s death.
Ever protective of Pinter, he dedicated his novel The Dwarfs to her. She represents his
estate as well as Antonia Fraser’s dramatic rights. Other clients include the late Simon
Gray and Ronald Harwood.
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Eileen Diss (1931–)

A distinguished television, film and stage production designer, Eileen Diss was edu-
cated at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (St Martin’s). She began working for
the BBC in the early 1950s, specializing in children’s television. Married with three
children, she became, in Michael Codron’s words, Pinter’s ‘most regular designer, with
a special gift for giving a fairly conventional setting a crucial dislocation or nudge
from naturalism’ (Putting: 217). She first met Pinter when working on the television
production of Tea Party (1964) and subsequently worked on The Basement (1967) and
for Pinter when he directed Exiles at the Mermaid Theatre (1970). She continued to
design for him until 2000, with Celebration at the Almeida. Diss also worked with a
host of other dramatists, including Simon Gray, Ronald Harwood and David Mamet.
She also has an impressive lengthy list of film credits.
Jack Emery (1945–)

Director, writer, producer for stage, TV and radio. Emery was educated at Keele
University where he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters (2011) for ‘a body
of work, both as original writer and producer, which is distinguished by scholar-
ship and scrupulous research’. He directed Pinter’s The Examination for Inter-Action
Productions at the Ambience Lunch-Hour Theatre Club in 1978. When married to
Joan Bakewell, from 1975 to 2001, he frequently met Pinter. His BBC TV production
of Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code won the Best Single Drama Award of the
Broadcasting Press Guild in 1996.
Martin Julius Esslin (1918–2002)

Drama critic and BBC producer. Born Julius Pereszlényi in Budapest, from a Jewish
secular background, he was educated at the University of Vienna, where he studied
philosophy and English and attended Max Reinhardt’s seminars on dramatic art.
He left for Brussels in 1938 and then moved to the UK. In 1940 he joined the BBC
European Service as a scriptwriter, director and producer. In 1947 he married Renate
Gerstenberg (d. 2002), with whom he translated many of Pinter’s early work into
German. In 1963 he succeeded Barbara Bray as Head of Radio Drama, a position he
held until 1977 when he left the BBC to become Professor of Drama at Stanford;
subsequently he returned to London. He was awarded an OBE in 1972 and received
various honorary doctorates from American universities. His time as Head of BBC
Radio Drama witnessed many innovative dramatic broadcasts, including Ionesco’s
Rhinoceros and Beckett’s drama. Esslin’s first study of Harold Pinter appeared in 1967
and the second book on Pinter, The Peopled Wound, by 1992 was in its fifth edition
and with several name changes. Esslin wrote many other influential books, including
Brecht: A Choice of Evils (1959) and The Theatre of the Absurd (1962).
Christopher Falkus (1940–95)

Publisher and Antonia Fraser’s first editor at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Falkus taught
Harold Pinter the art of bridge. Following Falkus’ early death, his widow Gila con-
tinued to play the game on a regular basis with the Pinters. He was the son of Hugh
Falkus (1917–96), a daring wartime RAF pilot, prisoner of war, and eminent writer on
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angling and other naturalist sporting activities. Falkus’ The Life and Times of Charles II
was published by Weidenfeld (1972), while The Folio Society produced his The Private
Lives of the Tudor Monarchs (1974) and his collection of P.G. Wodehouse’s Short Stories
(1983). Macmillan published his Spanish Armada (1972) and with his wife Gila he
wrote the posthumously published Life Behind the Great Wall (1996).
Barry Foster (1927–2002)

Film, TV and theatre actor. The son of a toolsetter, born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire,
Foster grew up in the Hayes and Hillingdon area of West London. He attended
Southall Grammar School, and worked as a plastics organic chemist before being
trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he met Pinter. They were
members of Anew McMaster’s company in Ireland in the early 1950s and formed a
lifelong friendship. Foster married Judith Shergold in 1955; they were married for
over 40 years and had three children. Foster appeared in various Pinter plays and
under his direction in Gray’s The Rear Column and Giraudoux’s The Trojan War Will
Not Take Place.
Dame Antonia Fraser (1932–)

A distinguished author, Lady (now Dame) Antonia Fraser was Pinter’s partner and
closest influence upon him from August 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve in
2008, and she was the dedicatee of many of his works. They married on 27 November
1980. Lady Antonia’s moving account of their relationship is found in her Must You
Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter (2010). The daughter of Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of
Longford (1905–2001), and Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford (1906–2002),
she was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. From 1956 to 1977
Antonia Fraser was married to Sir Hugh Fraser MP. She has three sons, Benjamin
(‘Benjie’, banker and poet), Damian (managing director of an investment banking
firm in Mexico) and Orlando (barrister who specializes in commercial law); and three
daughters, Rebecca, wife of the barrister Edward Fitzgerald QC, Flora and Natasha,
wife of Jean-Pierre Cavassoni – all three daughters are writers. She has 18 grand-
children. Writer of history, biographies and detective novels, notably the Jemima
Shore series, and television and radio drama, a former President of the English PEN
(1988–89) and broadcaster, Antonia Fraser was made CBE in 1999 and DBE in 2011
for services to literature.
Benjamin (‘Benjie’) Fraser (1961–)

Banker and poet, son of Antonia and Hugh Fraser, close to Harold Pinter. He married
Lucy Roper-Curzon in July 1991.
Flora Fraser (1958–)

Historical biographer, daughter of Antonia and Hugh Fraser, close to Harold Pinter.
At the age of 21 and still at Oxford she married Robert Powell-Jones, a barrister, with
whom she had a daughter. He died in 1998. Her second husband was Peter Soros, with
whom she had two children. They separated in 2009.
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Sir Michael John Gambon (1940–)

A pre-eminent actor, Gambon was born in Dublin. His engineer father moved to
North London after the war to work on the rebuilding of the city. Educated as a strict
Roman Catholic, Gambon attended St Aloysius’ College, Highgate, but left school
at 15 to become an apprentice toolmaker. By the age of 21 he was a fully qualified
engineer with a passion for collecting clocks, watches, antique guns and classic cars.
At 18 he went to RADA and then joined the Gate Theatre, Dublin, making his debut
in 1962. Recruited by Olivier, Gambon joined the National Theatre, leaving after
four years to gain repertory experience. He became widely recognized in 1974 as the
melancholy vet in Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests. Subsequently returning to the
National he triumphed in Peter Hall’s production of Pinter’s Betrayal, establishing
himself as a leading Pinter performer. Other notable Pinter performances include
Davies in Patrick Marber’s The Caretaker revival (2001). In 2008 he was Hirst in No
Man’s Land at the Gate Theatre; the production subsequently transferred to the Duke
of York’s in the West End. On Radio 3 he was Jerry in Betrayal and in 2007 Sam in The
Homecoming. Gambon appeared too in Pinter’s memorable TV and screen adaptation
of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day (1989), and also in Turtle Diary (1985). Pinter
selected Gambon to read at his funeral on 31 December 2008 from Hirst’s monologue.
Gambon also participated in the special Pinter tribute in Words and Music on BBC
Radio 3, transmitted on 22 February 2009. Gambon was made a CBE in 1990 and
knighted in 1998.
Sir Arthur John Gielgud (1904–2000)

Great actor and director, in the words of his ODNB entry (by Sheridan Morley and
Robert Sharp), ‘Gielgud was born into the most remarkable generation of classical
actors in history. If Olivier was the soldier of that generation and Richardson its
common man, Gielgud was its high priest.’ Born in South Kensington, the third
of four children, his mother was from an eminent theatrical family, his father,
of Polish aristocratic roots, a stockbroker. Noted for Shakespearean roles such as
Richard II and Hamlet in the pre-war period, he directed and appeared in many
films and was a pre-eminent force in the British theatre. Knighted in 1953, made
a Companion of Honour in 1977 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1996, he
is one of the very few actors to have been awarded an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy
and a Tony Award. In 1994 the Globe Theatre in the West End was renamed the
Gielgud Theatre. ‘He and Richardson again teamed up at the Old Vic for Harold
Pinter’s No Man’s Land (1975), the last high-water mark of both their stage careers:
Gielgud played Spooner, a seedy, garrulous, failed poet in what he later described as
his happiest theatrical experience’ (ODNB). Gielgud’s final acting performance was
in the film adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe opposite Pinter and directed
by David Mamet.
Geoffrey Godbert (1937–)

Poet, author of over 15 poetry collections and editor of poetry magazines, he worked
with Anthony Astbury as publisher of the Greville Press. Selected with Pinter
and Astbury are 100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology (1986) and 99 Poems in
Translation (1994).
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Michael (Mick) Goldstein (1930–)

The dedicatee of four of Pinter’s works – Other Places: Three Plays (1982), Other Places:
Four Plays (1984), Poems (1968) and Poems, Second Edition with Nine Added Poems,
1971) – Mick Goldstein’s friendship with Pinter lasted for more than 50 years and they
regularly corresponded. He and Pinter didn’t go to the same school but were obsessive
table-tennis players at Hackney Boys’ Club. As a member of what Henry Woolf called
‘Harold’s gang’, Mick and Pinter were very close. Indeed Len Weinstein, the music-
loving porter in Pinter’s The Dwarfs, is probably based on Mick. Pinter sought his
advice in the early 1950s when he was close to marrying Pauline Flanagan, and during
school days he and Pinter would go to Lord’s to see the opening game of the cricket
season. After having settled in Australia and when returning to London to visit, Pinter
and Mick would always meet. Following Pinter’s death, Goldstein was an important
source of recollections for Pinter’s early years.
Simon Gray (1936–2008)

Dramatist, diarist, novelist, academic, Gray was the dedicatee of Pinter’s Betrayal
(1978). Pinter directed nine of Gray’s plays and following their initial meeting in
1971, when Pinter directed Butley, they collaborated professionally and became close
friends, meeting, dining or, during the cricket season, watching cricket together on an
almost weekly basis until Gray’s death. Gray’s eight volumes of diaries are an impor-
tant source of information about Pinter. Gray was born on Hayling Island, Hampshire,
the second son of a Scottish GP. Gray read English at Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia and then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he was
influenced by F.R. Leavis. In 1965 he was appointed to a lectureship at Queen Mary
College, resigning from this in 1985. In 1965 he married Beryl Mary Kevern, by whom
he had two children; the marriage was dissolved in 1997 following an eight-year affair
with Victoria Katherine Rothschild (b. 1953), who also taught at Queen Mary. They
married in 1997. Gray smoked 60 cigarettes a day for at least 50 years, he also drank
alcohol to excess. Diagnosed with cancer in 2007, he died a year later. He was awarded
the CBE in 2004 for services to drama and literature.
John Gross (1935–2011)

Eminent man of letters and author, Gross edited the TLS from 1974 to 1981, and was
senior book editor and book critic for The New York Times between 1983 and 1989,
and Sunday Telegraph theatre critic (1989–2005). Born in the East End of London, he
was educated at Wadham College, Oxford where he gained a first in English. He then
went to Princeton. From 1962 to 1965 he was a Fellow at King’s College, Cambridge
and subsequently taught at Queen Mary College, London. Gross married the liter-
ary editor and broadcaster Miriam May in 1965: they divorced in 1988. Younger
than Pinter, they grew up in the same area, and had their Bar Mitzvah in the same
synagogue.
Sir Peter Hall (1930–)

Film, theatre and opera director, the dedicatee of Old Times, Hall was born in Bury
St Edmunds, Suffolk. Following National Service in the RAF he read English at
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St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. In 1955 Hall directed the first English premiere of
Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the Arts Theatre, London, which he ran from 1956 to
1959. A year later he founded the Royal Shakespeare Company (1960–68) and then
ran the National Theatre (1973–88). His time at the National is recorded in Peter Hall’s
Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle, edited by John Goodwin (1983), the source of
much information on Pinter and their relationship. Hall and Pinter were close person-
ally and professionally during this period and Hall directed many of Pinter’s plays at
the RSC and the National and also on the radio. They went their separate ways from
1985 to 1990 and then partly reconciled. Hall was made CBE in 1963 and knighted
in 1977 for services to the theatre.
Ian Hamilton (1938–2001)

Poet, biographer and literary editor, Hamilton was born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
Following National Service he went to Keble College, Oxford, where he founded
the literary magazine Tomorrow, which ran for four issues. The final issue pub-
lished Pinter’s A Slight Ache (1960). Subsequently Hamilton launched what became
the influential poetry magazine The New Review (1962–72). From 1965 he began
working for the TLS, becoming its poetry editor, also poetry editor of the Observer,
and was involved with the founding of the London Review of Books. In 2009 Faber
published Hamilton’s Collected Poems with an introduction by Alan Jenkins. Pinter
contributed to Another Round at the Pillars: Essays, Poems and Reflections on Ian
Hamilton (1999).
Sir Ronald Harwood (1934–)

Dramatist, director and author. Born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, South Africa, he
moved to London in 1951 to pursue an acting career. He first met Pinter in 1953 when
they auditioned to be in Sir Donald Wolfit’s theatrical company of which he was a
member from 1953 to 1958. Subsequently Harwood wrote a biography of Wolfit (1977).
Friend of Pinter for more than 50 years, they regularly played fiercely competitive
squash and tennis against each other and shared a mutual love of cricket. Harwood
and his wife Natasha (Riehle), whom he married in 1959, were frequent visitors at the
Pinters’, who also stayed with them. Pinter directed Harwood’s Taking Sides (1995),
a play concerning the complex situation of the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
(1886–1954) during the Nazi period. Harwood won an Oscar for his screenplay
The Pianist (2002) and he was President of English PEN (1989–93) and of PEN
International (1993–97). Other positions include President of the Royal Literary
Fund (2005–). Appointed CBE in 1999, he was knighted in 2010 for services to the
theatre.
Jeremy Irons (1948–)

Actor who took the lead roles in the 1983 film of The French Lieutenant’s Woman,
for which he won a BAFTA Best Actor Award, in Betrayal (1983), Langrishe, Go Down
(1978) and Simon Gray’s The Rear Column (1978). He played a prominent part in
Pinter’s 75th birthday celebrations at the Gate Theatre, Dublin and in the celebra-
tions surrounding the Europa Award to Pinter in Turin in 2006. He is married to the
actress Sinéad Cusack.
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Kenneth Ives (1934–)

Actor turned director, his television productions of Pinter include A Kind of Alaska
(1984), The Dumb Waiter (1985) and The Birthday Party (1987). He also directed Other
Places at the Duchess Theatre in 1985.
David Jones (1934–2008)

Stage, film and television director, educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he
was influenced by F.R. Leavis. In the 1960s and 1970s he was heavily involved with the
Aldwych and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His association with Pinter included
directing Old Times at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, Surrey and Theatre
Royal Haymarket (1985 and on American tour), No Man’s Land in New York (1994),
The Hot House at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, and the Comedy Theatre (1995),
and The Caretaker (2003). Jones’ Pinter film and TV productions include Langrishe, Go
Down (1978), Betrayal (1983) and The Trial (1993). Jones also played McCann in the
first London revival of The Birthday Party at the amateur Tower Theatre, Islington in
May 1959. This led to a long friendship with Pinter.
Elia Kazan (1909–2003)

Controversial Greek-American director of The Last Tycoon, for which Pinter wrote the
screenplay commissioned by Sam Spiegel.
Michael Kustow (1939–)

Writer and producer, educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He was a member of
the Royal Shakespeare Company (1962–67), Director of the ICA (1968–72) and
Associate Director of the National Theatre (1973–80). In 1982 he was the initial arts
commissioning editor for TV’s Channel 4. Kustow created National Theatre Platform
Performances, and directed Pinter’s plays.
Joseph Losey (1909–84)

Film director, born La Crosse, Wisconsin. A McCarthyite exile, he settled in England
in 1952. Losey enjoyed a long collaboration and close friendship with Pinter that
included The Servant (1963), The Accident (1967) and The Go-Between (1971). They also
worked on The Proust Screenplay for a long time but the finances were not found for
filming. His fourth wife, Patricia, whom he married in 1970, remained a close friend
of Pinter’s following her husband’s death.
Louis Marks (1928–2010)

BBC producer, director and scriptwriter. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, his inter-
est in medieval history gained him an Oxford DPhil. Marks worked with Pinter on
The Hot House (1987) and pre-eminently on the 1993 adaptation of Kafka’s The Trial.
David Mercer (1928–80)

Dramatist, born in Wakefield, Yorkshire. The son of a railway engine driver, he left
school at 14 but later gained a degree in fine art from King’s College, Newcastle upon
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Tyne, part of the University of Durham. He was noted for his TV trilogy of plays in the
early 1960s, and wrote A Suitable Case for Treatment (1962), filmed as Morgan: A Suitable
Case for Treatment (1966), directed by Karel Reisz. He was close to Pinter during the
1960s and early 1970s.
Vivien Merchant (Ada Thompson) (1929–82)

A fine actress, and Pinter’s first wife. They married in 1956 and their son Daniel was
born in 1958. Born in Manchester as Ada Thompson, she and Pinter met in repertory
theatre. She appeared in many of Pinter’s early plays, the last being as Anna in Old
Times in 1971. Following Pinter’s moving in with Antonia Fraser, they finally divorced
in 1980. She suffered from depression and alcoholism, dying two years later.
Christopher Morahan (1929–)

Stage, television director and production executive, he joined the National Theatre
in 1977 and became co-director of the Olivier Theatre. In 1972 Morahan directed The
Caretaker at the Mermaid Theatre, monologue in 1973 (BBC TV), Pinter’s television
adaptation of The Heat of the Day in 1989 and The Dwarfs at the Tricycle Theatre in
April 2003. He was awarded a CBE in 2011 for his services to drama. He married his
second wife, the actress Anna Carteret, in 1974.
Mike Nichols (1931–)

German-born American film, stage and television director who has won Emmy,
Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. Nichols wished to direct Pinter’s screenplay adap-
tation of Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day, but this failed to materialize. He worked with
Pinter on The Last Tycoon (1976).
Edna O’Brien (1930–)

Irish-born, London-based poet, novelist and dramatist. She was a long-standing friend
of Pinter. Her first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960 and a memoir,
Country Girl, appeared in 2012.
(Baron) Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

One of the most famous English actors and directors of the twentieth century.
Knighted in 1947, he was one of the founders and the inaugural director of the
National Theatre. In 1970 he was created a life peer and in 1981 was awarded the
Order of Merit. Olivier controlled the National Theatre during the period that Pinter
and Peter Hall were involved with it. He married his third wife, the actress Joan
Plowright, in 1961.
Diana Phipps
A close friend of Antonia Fraser, of Czech origin, and a former countess, she is an
interior decorator and author. Phipps offered Antonia Fraser and Pinter a country
retreat during the initial period of their relationship and accompanied them on
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visits to Prague and what is now the Czech Republic. She is the author of Affordable
Splendour: An Ingenious Guide to Decorating Elegantly, Inexpensively and Doing Most of It
Yourself (1982).
Frances Pinter (née Moskowitz) (1904–92)

Pinter’s mother, eldest of four from a large, secular Jewish family. She married Jack
Pinter on 9 June 1926. She went with Pinter, her only son, to Reading in 1941 when
they were evacuated from London during the Blitz. She didn’t totally approve of
Pinter’s relationship with Pauline Flanagan or his marriage to Vivien Merchant. She
died of cancer in a Brighton hospital in October 1992.
Jack Pinter (1902–97)

Pinter’s father, a lady’s tailor, had a strong hand with Pinter as he grew up, and they
continued to argue, especially over politics. Jack, a life-long Zionist, unlike his son,
was reluctant to criticize Israel. From artistically a musically inclined family, on
hearing his son’s school exam results he successfully challenged the local education
authority and had the results overturned. He encouraged Harold’s poetry and paid the
fines levied when his son refused military service. Jack died after a lengthy illness in a
Hove nursing home. Pinter’s powerful poem ‘Death: Births and Registration Act 1953’
was written as a response to his father’s death.
Donald Pleasence (1919–95)

Distinguished actor, born Worksop, Nottinghamshire, the son of a station master. He
joined the Royal Air Force in 1942 and became a prisoner of war. Pleasance played
the role of Davis in The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre in 1960, on tour, in the film
and again in 1990. A neighbour of Pinter in Chiswick, he drove him home after the
initial rehearsals of The Caretaker and they formed a close friendship. His films include
a role in Kazan’s The Last Tycoon. Pinter moved in with Pleasence and his family in
their Chiswick home when he left Vivien Merchant. With Robert Shaw and Pinter he
helped stage Shaw’s The Man in the Glass Booth (1967). He appeared in The Basement
and Tea Party at the Duchess Theatre in 1970. He died at Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
from heart failure. Pleasence married four times, and had five daughters.
Karel Reisz (1926–2002)

Major cinematic director, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, he came to England in
1938. Reisz’s parents died in Auschwitz. He went to Leighton Park School, Reading,
served in the RAF and then went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A social realist
filmmaker, he is noted for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). His other films
include This Sporting Life (1963) and he directed Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
(1966). He worked with Pinter on The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981) and they
formed a close friendship lasting until his death. In 1963 he married the American-
born actress Betsy Blair (1923–2009) who, after her husband’s death, continued to
play bridge with Pinter and remained a close friend. From 1991 to 2001, Reisz directed
at the Almeida and elsewhere. Reisz encouraged Pinter in 1987 to work on the screen-
play of Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale; he directed the restaged Moonlight at the May
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1994 Dublin Festival and also on Broadway in 1995. In 2001 at the Lincoln Center he
directed Landscape and A Kind of Alaska.
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902–83)

Eminent actor, born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, his father was a schoolmaster.
His parents split up when he was very young, and he was brought up as a Catholic
by his mother. In the 1940s he ran the Old Vic company with Olivier. Subsequently,
in a distinguished career, he turned down Peter Hall’s request to play Estragon in
the English premiere of Waiting for Godot. Richardson appeared frequently with
Gielgud and in 1974 played the part of Hirst to the latter’s Spooner in No Man’s Land.
Richardson was knighted in 1947 for services to the theatre. He married twice.
Philip Roth (1933–)

American/New Jersey novelist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He was mar-
ried to Claire Bloom (1990–95), with whom he had a lengthy relationship, including
a period living in London. Bloom’s 1996 memoir Leaving a Doll’s House describes in
considerable detail their fraught relationship; part of Roth’s rebuttal may be found in
I Married a Communist (1998).
Victoria Rothschild (1953–)

The second wife of Simon Gray, with whom she had an eight-year affair before mar-
rying him in 1997, she lectured at Queen Mary College, London.
Sir Salman Rushdie (1947–)

British-Indian novelist, knighted in 2007 for services to literature. Educated in
Mumbai, Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge, he won the Booker Prize in 1981 for
Midnight’s Children. He was part of Antonia Fraser and Pinter’s ‘June 20 Society’ that
met in the late 1980s to discuss politics, and he was protected by them following the
fatwa declared on Rushdie in 1989 for The Satanic Verses (1988). In February 1990
Pinter delivered the Herbert Read Memorial Lecture at the ICA on Rushdie’s behalf.
He has been married four times: to Clarissa Luard (1976–87), Marianne Wiggins
(1988–93), Elizabeth West (1997–2004) and Padma Lakshmi (2004–7). All four accom-
panied Rushdie to meetings with Pinter.
Oliver Sacks (1933–)

British-American neurologist and writer. Born in London, he was educated at Queen’s
College, Oxford and UCLA and has lived in New York since 1965. His books include
Awakenings (1973, revised edition 1990), which influenced Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska
and subsequently Moonlight. Pinter read Awakenings when it was first published and
was deeply moved by it; he sent the manuscript of A Kind of Alaska to Sacks in 1982.
Sacks has been described as ‘the poet laureate of medicine’. He is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters and Sciences, and was appointed CBE in 2008.
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Jerry Schatzberg (1927–)

American photographer and film director, born in the Bronx, New York. He directed
the film Reunion, with a screenplay by Pinter, based on Fred Uhlman’s autobiographi-
cal novella set in Stuttgart. It tells the story of a pre-World War II friendship between
two 16-year-old boys, one Jewish and the other a member of an old aristocratic family,
and of the Jewish boy Hans’ return after many years to Stuttgart.
Alan Schneider (1917–84)

Russian-born, American theatre director responsible for the American premieres of
The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter, The Collection and Other Places. He is also noted
for his association with Beckett. At the time of his death in London in a road accident
he was taking a rest from directing Other Places. Schneider was close to Pinter, who
felt that he had betrayed Schneider by giving the 1981 American production of The
Hothouse to Kevin Billington. Pinter subsequently sent Schneider a lengthy letter of
apology.
Robert Shaw (1927–78)

Novelist and actor born near Bolton, Lancashire. His father was a GP, who commit-
ted suicide in 1939. After a period as a teacher he went to RADA. Shaw married three
times and had ten children. The actress Mary Ure (1933–75), his second wife, died
from an overdose. Shaw’s novel The Sun Doctor won the Hawthornden Prize in 1962.
A close friend of Pinter, with Donald Pleasence they formed Glasshouse Productions
to stage Shaw’s novel The Man in the Glass Booth (1967), directed by Pinter.
Sam Spiegel (1901–85)

Charismatic film producer, born in Jaroslav, Galicia (now in Poland), and educated at
the University of Vienna. In 1938 he left Europe for Mexico and subsequently the USA.
A committed Zionist, his legacy includes large financial contributions to the Israeli
film industry. His many awards include three Academy Oscars for Best Picture. A close
friend of Pinter, their first contact included negotiations with Joseph Losey over obtain-
ing the rights from Spiegel for Accident in the early 1960s. Spiegel commissioned Pinter
for the screenplay of The Last Tycoon and he produced the film of Betrayal (1983). One
of Pinter’s initial encounters with Antonia Fraser was at an Art benefit Spiegel hosted in
1970, and Spiegel made his Grosvenor House flat available to Pinter when he left Vivien
Merchant in April 1975. Spiegel’s widow Betty remained a friend, and Antonia Fraser’s
daughter Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni wrote his biography (2003).
Roger Stevens (1910–88)

American theatrical producer, arts administrator and real-estate executive. He was born
in Detroit and educated at the University of Michigan. He was founding chairman of
the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts,
and with his wife Christine founded the Animal Welfare Institute in 1951. His numerous
awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1988). He produced The Caretaker in
1961, for which he held the rights, as well as The Homecoming and Old Times. All three
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were Stevens’ property, following a deal arranged by Jimmy Wax after the failure of The
Birthday Party at its initial production.
Sir Tom Stoppard (1937–)

Dramatist, screenwriter and adaptor, journalist and activist. He was born in Zlin,
Czechoslovakia, and settled in England in 1946. Knighted in 1997, other honours
include the Order of Merit (2000). He is the winner of numerous Tony Awards and
an Academy Oscar for Best Screenplay (Shakespeare in Love 1999) and was a friend of
Pinter from the mid-1960s. Twice married, to Josie Ingle (1965–72) and Miriam (née
Stern) from 1972 to 1992, he then had a relationship with the actress Felicity Kendal
(1992–98).
Guy Vaesen (1912–2002)

Painter, BBC radio producer, theatrical manager and lifelong friend of both Pinter
and Vivien Merchant, with whom he was especially close. He first met Pinter when
he was director of production and company manager at the Palace Court Theatre,
Bournemouth, where Vivien was appearing. He co-directed with Pinter The Lover and
The Dwarfs at the Arts Theatre Club in September 1963. He also directed the (uncen-
sored) premiere of Landscape (BBC Third Programme, April 1968). Vaesen looked
after Vivien during the spring and summer of 1975 following the final break-up with
Pinter. The published version of Family Voices (1981), originally written for radio,
contains seven of Vaesen’s illustrations.
(Baron) William Waldegrave (1946–)

A former Conservative politician, member of the Cabinet (1990–97) and Provost of
Eton College (2009–), he was educated at Eton, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and
Harvard. Waldegrave married Caroline Burrows (1952–) in 1975. He played tennis
with Pinter and Antonia Fraser and also bridge.
Sir Fred Warner (1918–95)

A senior British diplomat, Ambassador to Japan, businessman and Conservative
politician. Warner was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Magdalen
College, Oxford. He married, in 1971, Simone Georgina de Ferranti (née Nangle).
Emanuel ( Jimmy) Wax (1912–83)

Leading literary agent, he founded ACTAC (Theatrical and Cinematic Limited) in
1946 after serving as a judge in the British Army of Occupation in postwar Europe.
He took a first in law at New College, Oxford. In July 1957 he wrote to Pinter propos-
ing that he represent him, which he did until his death, when he was succeeded by
Judy Daish whom he had trained for five years. He introduced The Room, following an
unsuccessful attempt at a BBC production, to Michael Codron and sold Night Out for
production on ABC’s TV Armchair Theatre in 1959. Wax approached Roger Stevens
to support Pinter following the Birthday Party debacle. He supported Pinter and others
Who’s Who 323
with Shield Productions in their attempt to produce new plays in the West End in
1970. Pinter contributed to Jimmy (Pendragon Press 1984), a book of commemorative
anecdotes and memoirs of Wax.
(Baron) George Weidenfeld (1919–)

Publisher, philanthropist and journalist, born in Vienna and educated at the
University of Vienna. He came to London in 1938 and worked for the BBC. In 1948 he
founded the publishing firm of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, which published Nabokov’s
Lolita and other notable works. In 1985 he acquired the Grove Press. Knighted in
1969, he was made a life peer in 1976. He married his fourth wife, the former concert
manager Annabelle Whitestone, in 1992.
Morris (Moishe) Wernick (1930–2012)

Pinter’s lifelong friend since childhood, a member of his ‘Hackney gang’. He spoke
up for Pinter at the tribunal examining his conscientious objection and in the sum-
mer of 1949 they hitchhiked together around Cornwall. He did his national service
in the Royal Artillery. In 1956, following his marriage to Kathleen, he left for Canada,
where he taught English and history in Montreal. He returned for a holiday in 1964
to introduce his wife and children to his parents: this has been taken to be Pinter’s
stimulus for The Homecoming.
Peter Willes (1913–91)

An actor who became head of drama at Associated Rediffusion. He was educated at
Stowe School, and was noted for his habit of acquiring expensive suits: Pinter wore
one following Willes’ death for the role of Roote in The Hothouse (1995). Willes was
instrumental in getting The Birthday Party screened in 1960 and he and Pinter became
close friends.
Heathcote Williams (1941–)

Dramatist, actor, poet and artist, he was educated at Eton. Pinter and Al Pacino,
amongst others, were enthusiasts for his work, including his play The Local Stigmatic.
The film of the play was made in the late 1980s, produced by and starring Al Pacino,
and developed a cult following. His long poem Whale Nation (1988) was a bestselling
attack on whaling. Pinter appears in a documentary film on Williams: ‘Every Time I
Cross the Tamar I Get into Trouble’ (1993).
Henry Woolf (1930–)

Lifelong friend of Pinter, also educated at Hackney Downs School, and part of Pinter’s
‘Hackney gang’. He served in the RAF, from which he was invalided out. Educated
at the University of London, he took a postgraduate course in directing at Bristol
University where he stimulated Pinter to write his first play, The Room, which he
produced and also played the role of Mr Kidd. He gained a postgraduate diploma
from the College of William and Mary, Virginia. In 1965 Woolf married the actress
324 Who’s Who
and director Susan Williamson. In 1978 they moved to Canada, where he taught at
the University of Alberta drama department, then subsequently at the University of
Saskatchewan from 1983 to 1997. Pinter dedicated monologue (1993) to Woolf, who
continues to perform the role of the solitary Man. In 2007, to mark the 50th anniver-
sary of the original Bristol production, Woolf repeated the role of Mr Kidd.
Francis Wyndham (1924–)

Novelist and short-story writer, educated at Eton. Following a year at Oxford he was
drafted into the army in 1942 but was demobbed after it was found he suffered from
tuberculosis. A regular TLS and New York Review of Books reviewer, during the 1950s he
worked as a critic and editor for Queen. From 1960 to 1980 he worked for The Sunday
Times. His novel The Other Garden won the Whitbread First Novel Award (1987). The
Complete Fiction was published in 2009.
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Index of Works by Harold Pinter
Audio-visual materials ‘Wednesday Magazine’, 12, 14

Pinter People, 35
‘The Actor’, CBS Television Special, 28 ‘Without Walls: Celebration of
Director: film: Simon Gray, Butley, 40–3, Sir Donald Wolfit’, 211
45–51, 53, 55–6, 58, 63, 66, 75
Harold Pinter with Benedict
Nightingale, 120, 144
Fiction
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:
The Homecoming, 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,
‘Tea Party’, 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 Jeremy Isaacs, 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 The South Bank Show: ‘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 Silence’ (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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328 Index of Works by Harold Pinter
‘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
‘The Guardian 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 ‘The Observer Profile’ (J. Rayne), 251
‘Harold Pinter: Interview Donée au ‘Old Times’ (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
‘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 Ashes to Ashes’
(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
‘Pinterview’, 14
Miscellaneous: minor pieces,
‘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
‘Hollow Reforms in Turkey’ [joint letter], ‘Umbrellas’, 11

224 ‘Vanunu and Israel’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 Applicant, 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 The Basement, 19, 23–4, 29, 30, 38–9
99 Poems in Translation, 211 Betrayal, 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’ The Collection, 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 Family Voices, 99–101, 103–4, 105, 109,
Rights’ [joint letter], 233 118–19, 154, 156, 161, 297
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
A Kind of Alaska, 21, 112, 119, 131, Trouble in the Works, 10, 12, 30
133–5, 137, 139, 169, 177, 235, Victoria Station, 112, 119, 129, 131, 139,
243, 254, 267, 274, 299 242
Landscape, 26, 28–35, 51–3, 101, 116–17,
121, 211–12, 216–18, 223, 231, Poetry
267
Last to Go, 10, 30
Collections
The Lover, 15–18, 20, 33, 67, 143, 155–9,
188, 194, 234–5, 243, 262, 302 The Disappeared and Other Poems, 276
Mixed Doubles, 30–1 I Know the Place, 87
monologue, 48, 50–1, 63–4, 267, 271, 301 Poems (1968), 28
Moonlight, 201–3, 205–12, 215, 218,
222–3, 238–9, 257, 261 Published shorter poems
Mountain Language, 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
Night School, 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
Precisely, 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
‘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’
[speech: Hamburg 1970], 36
Prose non-fiction: essays,
‘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 Talent’, 188
‘Blowing up the Media’, 196 ‘Censorship’ [letter], 263
‘Caribbean Cold War’, 227 ‘Dear President Bush’, 285
‘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 King Lear, 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 Turtle Diary, 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
‘Waiting for Godot’, 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
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
Index of People
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,
The Tempest, 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 Bedroom Farce, 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; Taking Steps, 100;
Appelfield, Aaron, 165 Woman in Mind, 151
Appet, Mercy, 18 Ayer, A.J., 177
335
336 Index of People
Bacall, Lauren, 70, 100, 139–46, 157, Butley, 45; The Caretaker, 11; Hamlet,
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 The History Boys, 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
Index of People 337
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
338 Index of People
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
Index of People 339
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; Serious Money, 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; Otherwise Engaged, 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 Three Sisters, 27, Cookson, Cherry, 133
156, 182; Uncle Vanya, 35, 72, 94, Cooney, Ray
116, 165, 175; Wild Honey, 134 Two into One, 136
340 Index of People
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 Westminster, 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
Index of People 341
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
342 Index of People
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; The Bacchae, 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,
Index of People 343
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; Copenhagen, 244; Democracy,
260, 269–73, 275, 283, 285–6, 283; Donkey’s Years, 68; Noises Off,
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; Oxford 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
344 Index of People
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 Peter Hall’s Diaries, 316
Gilliatt, Penelope, 164 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 199
Gillott, Jacky, 38, 42 Gordimer, Nadine, 156, 180, 213–14
Gilman, Rebecca Gordon, Lois, 38
Index of People 345
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
346 Index of People
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; Racing Demon, 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; The Dresser, 97, 127, 294; Hickey, William, 62
Equals Divided, 246; A Family, 84; Hicks, Grant, 196–8
Index of People 347
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 Janáček, Leoš
Hutton, Len, 32 The Cunning Little Vixen, 204, 279;
Hytner, Sir Nicholas, 269 Jenůfa, 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
348 Index of People
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, Kapuściński, 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; Volpone, 73 Kennelly, Karen, 135
Jordan, Neil, 235 Kennerly, K., 139
Joseph, Stephen, 5 Kenny, Sir Anthony, 249
Index of People 349
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 Philip Larkin, 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, Stanley, 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
Angels in America, 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
350 Index of People
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 Tamburlaine, 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 Martinů, Bohuslav
Maclaren-Ross, Julian, 248–9 The Greek Passion, 258
MacNeice, Louis Marx Brothers
Autumn Journal, 93 A Night At the Opera, 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
Index of People 351
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
The Pillowman, 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
Dublin Carol, 256; Port Authority, 264; Miles, Sir Bernard, 35, 42, 44, 47, 50
Shining City, 289; The Weir, 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
352 Index of People
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,
Another Country, 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; The Real Thing, 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;
Index of People 353
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, The Entertainer, 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
354 Index of People
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
Index of People 355
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 Rachel Corrie, 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
356 Index of People
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
Index of People 357
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; Coriolanus, 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; Julius Caesar, 72, 272; King John, 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; Othello, 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
358 Index of People
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; Arcadia, 203; Dirty The Playboy of the Western World, 215
Linen, 67; Enigma, 268; Hapgood, Szabó, István
163; Invention of Love, 248; Jumpers, The Trial, 188
Index of People 359
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
360 Index of People
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
Spring Awakening, 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
Index of People 361
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
Index of Places
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
Radio Drama, 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 British Academy, 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,
362
Index of Places 363
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
British Film Institute (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 Hráčdecek, 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
Canada, 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,
Carlisle, 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
364 Index of Places
France – continued Hayling Island, 315

Monte Carlo, 32 Pylewell, 190, 204, 228, 213, 221
Nice, 57, 76 Hay Festival of Literature, 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
Index of Places 365
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
University of Leeds, 301 Chelsea, 52, 133, 151, 171, 298
Leicester, 101 Chelsea Arts Club, 119, 257
Liverpool, 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
366 Index of Places
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
Garrick Club, 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
House of Lords, 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
Index of Places 367
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 University of London, 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 Adelphi Theatre, 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 Aldwych Theatre (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
368 Index of Places
London theatres – continued Haymarket Theatre, see Theatre Royal

Ambiance Almost Free Theatre, 50, Haymarket
67, 80, 312 Jermyn Street Theatre, 237
Apollo Theatre, 11, 42, 128, 156 Jerwood Theatre, see Royal Court
Arts Theatre Club, 11–12, 16, 307–8, Theatre
316, 321 King’s Head Theatre, Islington, 143
Bush Theatre, 51, 89, 113, 129, 185, King’s Theatre, Hammersmith, 6
193 Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), 9–10,
Cambridge Theatre, 33, 37, 40, 102 130, 136, 139, 144, 171, 198,
Comedy Theatre, 13, 30, 85, 103, 233–4, 264, 272, 287, 291, 303
186–7, 189, 193, 201, 207, 222, Lyric Studio, 116, 130–1, 139, 258,
226, 249, 261, 264–5, 268, 281, 307
286, 289–90, 292, 302, 305, 316 Lyric Theatre, Haymarket, 180
Cottesloe Theatre (National Theatre) Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre)
(Cot), 73, 78–9, 83, 86–7, 90, (Ly), 66–7, 71–2, 81, 84, 86, 88,
100–2, 109, 115, 119–22, 126, 90, 92–3, 95, 98, 101, 110, 113,
136, 146, 152, 155, 158, 165, 168, 116, 120–3, 132, 134, 143, 165–6,
175, 179, 196, 198, 216, 218, 226, 168, 172, 209–10, 214, 231–4,
232, 241–4, 262–5, 269, 271, 276, 236–7, 246–7, 269–72, 285, 290,
283, 286, 294 292, 301
Criterion Theatre, 12, 36, 40, 43, Mayfair Theatre, 59, 76
220–3 Mermaid Theatre, 37–9, 46–7, 50, 55,
Crown Theatre, Wardour Street, 75 59, 82, 113, 137, 147, 312
Donmar Warehouse, 44, 76, 156, National Theatre (NT), 27, 34, 37, 45,
208–9, 213, 239–44, 251, 255, 48, 50–9, 63–7, 69–89, 91–4,
257, 264, 270, 276, 281, 285, 100–2, 104–5, 107, 109, 112,
287–90, 301 117–18, 121–2, 125, 147, 152,
Duchess Theatre, 11, 13, 38, 138–9, 157–8, 163, 165–9, 171–2, 174–6,
235, 284, 286, 293, 295, 307, 317, 180, 183–4, 203, 207, 210–12,
319 214, 216, 219, 224, 228, 230–1,
Duke of York’s Theatre, 25, 110, 134, 235, 238, 241, 246–8, 250, 252,
206–7, 209, 212, 254, 279, 281, 258, 260–2, 268, 274, 281–2,
294, 303, 306, 314 292, 306, 314, 316–18; see also
Ealing Street Theatre, 23 Cottesloe Theatre; Lyttelton
Finborough Theatre, 283 Theatre; Old Vic; Olivier Theatre
Garrick Theatre, 54, 81–2, 85, 113, New Theatre, 34
122, 125, 127, 138, 154–5, 158, Old Vic (OV), 25, 45, 49, 52–4, 57–8,
177, 202, 207–8, 215, 247, 308 60, 64, 68, 74, 113, 136, 156, 166,
Gielgud Theatre, 242, 275, 293, 314 172, 225, 254, 258, 274, 283, 288,
Globe Theatre, 45, 55, 68, 79, 96, 105, 314
179, 314 Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
Greenwich Theatre, 40, 52, 64, 107, (Ol), 69, 72–3, 79–80, 85–6,
123 89–90, 98, 100, 102, 105, 112,
Hampstead Theatre, 30, 97, 99, 105–6, 114, 118–19, 138, 154–5, 157,
109–11, 117, 120, 122–3, 126, 163, 191, 231, 263, 274, 278, 282,
130, 133–4, 146, 149–51, 161, 183, 291, 304
198, 225, 237, 242, 245, 259, 264 Open Space Theatre, Tottenham Court
Hampstead Theatre Club, 10, 20, 57, Road, 40
80, 90, 125, 157, 165, 244 Phoenix Theatre, 86, 161, 163, 173,
Harold Pinter Theatre, 305 181
Index of Places 369
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 Wales 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
Vaudeville Theatre, 94, 106, 151, 165, World Trade Center, 268
181, 196, 311 WNDT-TV Channel 13, 25
370 Index of Places
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
Morosco Theatre, 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
Index of Places 371
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
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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
Index of Places 373
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 University 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
374 Index of Places
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 Wolverhampton, 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

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General Editor: Norman Page, Emeritus Professor of Modern English

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Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

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General Editor’s Preface vi

Who’s Who 306

Most biographies are ill-adapted to serve as works of reference – not

a bibliography of the principal sources of information. In the chronology

Pinter was prolific in many forms. Unfortunately word limitation pre-

Places’, which concludes A Harold Pinter Chronology. However, the matches

his last-known dramatic work, Celebration, first performed at the Almeida on

AAy Alan Ayckbourn

Works by/adapted by Harold Pinter

ATP Art, Truth and Politics

3P Third Programme (BBC radio); later BBC Radio 3

CGa Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Other books and sources

Billington Michael Billington, Harold Pinter (London: Faber and Faber,

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

Evacuated with mother to Reading, lodges with a factory worker’s family. HP

Brief evacuation to Yorkshire: the source for lifelong support of Yorkshire

Falls in love with 14-year-old girl, a neighbour. The unhappy relationship

Radio performances on BBC’s Focus on Football Pools and Focus on Libraries;

September 1951–Autumn 1952

With Donald Wolfit’s company, King’s Theatre, Hammersmith: adopts the

Casual jobs such as waiter, dishwasher, bouncer, writing, acting in provincial

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

Writes ‘The Examination’ as a short story (BR: W4). Acting in Colchester

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

Writes The Caretaker (C; BR: W14).

Spring, early summer

27 (Wed) First American production of BP opens at the Actors’ Workshop,

A Night Out informally published as a radio script, first broadcast by 3P. DW

30 (Mon) Personal Anthology, introduces and reads his own choice of

HP and Christopher Fry contribute ‘Foreword’ to Eugène Labiche’s Two Plays,

Moves to 14 Ambrose Place, Worthing. Writes screenplay of The Pumpkin

Working on screenplay of Nicholas Mosley’s Accident (A) directed by JL.

Working on screenplay of Elleston Trevor’s (‘Adam Hall’) The Quiller Memo-

10 (Tue) 6pm PEN dinner Cock Tavern, Fleet Street.

8 (Sat) First Paris performance H.

24 (Mon) Afternoon rehearsal of H: VM, Ian Holm replacements take over.

6 (Fri) Lunch RS: Savoy Grill. Evening JB.

27 (Wed) Sees Strindberg’s Dance of Death.

4–15 (Tue–Sat) H Palace Theatre, Watford, HP as Lenny.

25 (Fri) Noon John Whiting Award ceremony for Howard Brenton’s

12 (Sat) 11:30am Peter Gill, director.

11 (Thur) Records radio version of C. Patricia Brent interview on Today, BBC

25 (Tue) Flies to Berlin.

BP film released, directed by William Friedkin.

4 (Sat) Morning nets. 7pm PW.

14 (Sun) Plays cricket.

8 (Sat) Morning Timothy West, actor.

14 (Mon) Lunch Feliks Topolski. 8pm John Mortimer’s A Voyage

Film GB released, directed by JL.

20 (Sat) Evening MG.

24 (Thur) 6pm Robert Bryan discusses Bu lighting Criterion Theatre.

HP, JL and BB adapting Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu as a

15 (Tue) BB, works on ‘Proust’.

3 (Wed) Lunch VM and Maximilian Schell, Swiss actor. Evening

11 (Tue) Lunch JW: Odin’s. Evening Ralph Richardson (RR) and PA in

24 (Fri) Lunch EO.

m first edition, standard issue, Covent Garden Press (BR: A35a¹).