- (1994) His play, "The Kitchen," was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England with Lorraine Ashbourne, Christopher Fulford, Dimitri Andreas, Annette Badland, Sam Beazley, Ewan Hooper, Teddy Kempner, Dermot Kerrigan, and Timothy Kightly in the cast. Stephen Daldry was director.
- (1959) His play, "Roots," was performed at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, England in an English Stage Company/Coventry Belgrade Theatre production with Joan Plowright, Patsy Byrne, Charles Kay, Patrick O'Connell, Gwen Nelson, Alan Howard, and Brenda Peters in the cast. John Dexter was director.
- (1960) His plays, "Chicken Soup with Barley," "Roots," and "I'm Talking about Jerusalem," was performed as the Wesker Trilogy at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England with Kathleen Michael, Frank Finlay, Alan Howard, Mark Eden, Charles Kay, John Colin, Cherry Morris, Ruth Meyers, Michael Phillips, David Saire, Patsy Byrne, Joan Plowright, Gwen Nelson, Anthony Hall, Terry Palmer, and Jessie Robins in the cast. John Dexter was director. Jocelyn Herbert was designer.
- (June 12, 1962) His play, "Chips with Everything," was performed at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England with Frank Finlay and Corin Redgrave in the cast. John Dexter was director.
- (1963) His play, "Chips with Everything," was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in an an English Stage Company production with Gary Bond, Alan Dobie, Derek Fowlds, Terence Taplin, Frank Wylie, John Noakes, Howard Marion Crawford, Corin Redgrave, and Christopher Timothy in the cast. John Dexter was director.
- (1966) His play, "Their Very Own and Golden City," was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England with Iain Cuthbertson, Lucy Fleming, Jean Boht, George Howe, Sebastian Shaw, Avril Elgar, Dennis Waterman, Jeffry Wickham, and John Castle in the cast. Jane Howell and William Gaskill were directors.
- (1967) His play, "Roots," was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England with Thelma Whiteley, Trevor Peacock, and Bridget Turner in the cast. Jane Howell was director.
- The Merchant (1977). Written by Arnold Wesker. Directed by John Dexter. Plymouth Theatre: 16 Nov 1977- 20 Nov 1977 (6 performances + 8 previews). Cast: John Clements (as "Antonio Querini, A merchant of Venice") [final Broadway role], Joseph Leon (as "Shylock Kolner, A Jew of Venice"), Roberta Maxwell (as "Portia Contarini, An heiress of Venice"), Marian Seldes (as "Rivka Kolner, Shylock's sister"), Russ Banham (as "Venetian"), Mark Blum (as "Venetian") [Broadway debut], Philip Carroll (as "Venetian"), James David Cromar (as "Venetian"), Julie Garfield (as "Jessica Kolner, Shylock's daughter"), Gloria Gifford (as "Nerissa, Portia's maid"), Jeffrey Horowitz (as "Solomon Usque, A playwright") [Broadway debut], Leib Lensky (as "Moses of Castelazzo, a portrait painter"), Rebecca Malka (as "Servant"), Everett McGill (as "Lorenzo Pisani, Bassanio's friend"), Brian Meister (as "Venetian"), Riggs O'Hara (as "Graziano Sanudo, Antonio's assistant"), William Roerick (as "Girolamo Priuli, Doge of Venice"), John Seitz (as "Tubal di Ponti, Shylock's partner"), Nicolas Surovy (as "Bassanio Visconti, Antonio's godson"), Boris Tumarin (as "Abtalion da Modena, Shylock's Tutot") [Final Broadway role], John Tyrrell (as "Venetian"), Angela Wood (as "Rebecca da Mendes, Daughter of Portugese banker"). Produced by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman. Bernard B. Jacobs: President), The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Roger Berlind and Eddie Kulukundis. Produced in association with SRO Productions, Ltd. Note: During it's pre-Broadway tryout in Philadelphia, star Zero Mostel played Shylock at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia for one preview (2 Sep 1977). He died suddenly on 8 Sep 1977 and was replaced by Joseph Leon.
- (1970) George Farquhar's play, "The Recruiting Officer," and his play, "Chips with Everything," was performed in a Cambridge Theatre Company production at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, East Sussex, England with Ian McKellen, Julian Curry, Susan Fleetwood, Richard Morant, Trevor Peacock, John Woodnutt, Meg Wynn Owen, Jonathan Kent, and Nickolas Grace in the cast. Richard Cottrell was director.
- (1970) He directed his play, "The Friends," at the Roundhouse Theatre in London, England with John Bluthal, Anna Cropper, Susan Engel, Lynn Fairleigh, Victor Henry, Ian Holm, and Roy Marsden in the cast. Nicholas Georgiadias was designer.
- (1997) His play, "Chips with Everything," was performed in a Royal National Theatre production at the Lyttelton Theatre in London, England with Rupert Penry Jones, Julian Glover, Iain Mitchell, James Hazeldine, and Eddie Marsan in the cast. Howard Davies was also director.
- (1976) His play, "Shylock" was performed in Stockholm, Sweden.
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