Early acting experiences
 
Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Hackney Downs Grammar School, 26 - 28 March 1947.
 
Directed by Joseph Brearley
Macbeth - Harold Pinter
Lady Macbeth - Ronald Percival

"Master Harold Pinter made a more eloquent, more obviously nerve-racked Macbeth than one or two professional grown-ups I have seen in the part" Alan Dent, News Chronicle, March 1947, quoted in Michael Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, Faber and Faber, 1996, pp.13-14.
   
     
Harold Pinter (second left) as Macbeth.   Harold Pinter as Romeo
 

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Hackney Downs Grammar School, 1948.
Directed by Joseph Brearley
Romeo - Harold Pinter
Juliet - Betty Lemon

Dick Whittington and his Cat, Chesterfield Hippodrome, 1949-50 (minor role)

 
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