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Pinter valued his relationships with mentors and peers in the theater world.
In his early years as a touring actor, Pinter enjoyed the mentor-ship of Anew McMaster, an influential actor-manager who had played many of Shakespeare's leading men. Pinter remembers McMaster fondly; he describing the latter as "proud, affectionate...merry", and faithfully recalls McMaster's manner of speaking in his autobiography, a stop-and-start style that is said to have inspired the "non-sequiturs and stop-and-start rhythms" of Pinter's written dialogue. (Thompson, 7-8)
Later in life, Pinter regularly maintained close friendships with the other playwrights of his time. He and his then-wife, Fraser, regularly met with Tom Stoppard. Pinter also met often with Samuel Beckett, who his wife Fraser says he "revered".
Pinter (L) at a game of cricket with Stoppard (R).
Text and Photo Source:
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser