Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 12 segments
Lindsay Wesker tells about the jounery from being the son of the world famous playwright Arnold Wasker, why he decided to turn his back on the 'arts' and go in a completely different direction. He…
For me, mental health isn't always about people falling apart and stuff like that because we all have those challenges.
So something within you made you feel that you needed to go down the path of not using his name.
then finding out what the result would be and then after that at some point you then almost made a complete left turn and went completely different what was going if you can answer this what was going through your mind over that period of time what do you think was was a your mental state, not saying a mental state from falling apart or whatever, but what was going on for you that made you make the decisions that you did?
That very first play that I referred to, which we performed for three nights at the Jackson's Lane Community Centre, just around the corner from where we lived.
And the person writing the review said, used the words, it feels a teeny bit repulsive.
And basically, they were under the impression that my dad had organised the whole thing on my behalf.
You know, they didn't know that I'd written the play, found the cast, rehearsed the cast...
And they all, five different actors who lived in five different parts of London.
And in order to do the rehearsals, I had to pick up all of them, rehearse, and then drop them all home.
And this reviewer immediately assumed that my father had organized everything.
That was the only reason, you know, there was an audience all down to my father.
And I suppose at that point I realized, uh, a lot of people were going to have that reaction.
If I achieved any degree of success, it was going to be only because I was Arnold Wesker's son.
For me, mental health isn't always about people falling apart and stuff like that because we all have those challenges.
So something within you made you feel that you needed to go down the path of not using his name.
then finding out what the result would be and then after that at some point you then almost made a complete left turn and went completely different what was going if you can answer this what was going through your mind over that period of time what do you think was was a your mental state, not saying a mental state from falling apart or whatever, but what was going on for you that made you make the decisions that you did?
That very first play that I referred to, which we performed for three nights at the Jackson's Lane Community Centre, just around the corner from where we lived.
And the person writing the review said, used the words, it feels a teeny bit repulsive.
And basically, they were under the impression that my dad had organised the whole thing on my behalf.
You know, they didn't know that I'd written the play, found the cast, rehearsed the cast...
And they all, five different actors who lived in five different parts of London.
And in order to do the rehearsals, I had to pick up all of them, rehearse, and then drop them all home.
And this reviewer immediately assumed that my father had organized everything.
That was the only reason, you know, there was an audience all down to my father.
And I suppose at that point I realized, uh, a lot of people were going to have that reaction.
If I achieved any degree of success, it was going to be only because I was Arnold Wesker's son.
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