Abstract
The next four years of Pinter’s acting-career, from 1954 to 1958, were to be spent in provincial repertory, working, as he put it, ‘all over the place’. In 1954 Pinter changed his name (professionally) to David Baron and worked intermittently in the Whitby and Huddersfield repertory companies as well as touring quite extensively with one particular play; in 1955 he played a full season at Colchester and a summer season in his favourite Ireland; in 1956 he played in Bournemouth and Torquay; in 1957 he acted in Torquay, Birmingham and Palmers Green; and in 1958 and 1959, now based in London, he played in Palmers Green and Richmond.
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Notes
Arnold P. Hinchliffe, The British Theatre 1950–70 (1974) p. 26.
R. C. Shcrriff, No Leading Lady (1968) p. 57.
Terence Rattigan, Preface to Collected Plays, vol. ii (1953) pp. xii, xiii.
Norman Marshall, ‘The Repertory Theatres’, The Other Theatre (1947) p. 192.
Ibid, (quoting St John Ervine), p. 192.
Richard Findlater, The Unholy Trade (1953) pp. 83–4.
Ibid., p. 84.
Ibid., p. 89.
Ronald Hayman, The Set Up (1973) p. 185.
Ibid., p. 186.
Leslie Smith, ‘Pinter the Player’, Modern Drama, Dec 1979, pp. 352–3.
Acting in the Sixties, ed. H. Barker (1970) p. 47.
Michael Billington, The Modern Actor (1973) pp. 173–6.
Pinter, in Twentieth Century, Feb 1961, pp. 172–3.
Pinter, in New Yorker, 25 Feb 1967, p. 36.
Information from Kathleen Tynan, ‘In Search of Harold Pinter’, Evening Standard, 25 Apr 1968, p. 7; and Bragg interview.
Harold Pinter, ‘New Year in the Midlands’, Poems and Prose 1949–1977 (1978) p. 1. The poem was written while Pinter was in a pantomime, Dick Whittington and his Cat, at the Hippodrome, Chesterfield, 1949–50.
Harold Pinter, ‘The Drama in April’, ibid., p. 14.
Harold Pinter, ‘The Second Visit’, ibid., p. 19.
Marshall Pugh, ‘Trying to Pin Down Pinter’, Daily Mail, 7 Mar 1964.
Tynan, in the Evening Standard, 25 Apr 1968.
Interview with the writer, 19 Sep 1983.
S. Pugh, in the Daily Mail, 7 Mar 1964.
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Thompson, D.T. (1985). Enter David Baron. In: Pinter. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07277-4_3
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