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image: Quentin Crisp sitting at a table with his right hand touching his chin.
For those who admired him for his Intellect, Humanity and Courage.
 Dedicated to the memory of
Quentin Crisp
"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. "
- Quentin Crisp

Plays about Quentin

There have been four plays about Quentin. The first Resident Alien, premiered just days before his death.



Tea 'N' Crisp

Tea 'N' Crisp - back by popular demand!

Image: Richard Louis James as Quentin Crisp in Tea 'N' Crisp. Richard will be performing a third run of his play Tea 'N' Crisp at the The San Francisco Playhouse every Sunday during July and August.
Read about the play 'Tea 'N' Crisp'.


Richard Louis James interviewed by Nigel Kelly

Now with a second run of his show in San Francisco in February 2008, I thought it would be interesting to find out more about this gifted actor who is so able to get under the skin of someone as unique as Quentin Crisp.
Read Richard's interview


Ghost of Quentin Crisp

David Alexander Nahmod's excellent article about Tea 'N' Crisp and Richard Louis James is now also in the Bay Area Reporter.
Read the article Ghost of Quentin Crisp.
Or just read the text version.


Tea 'N' Crisp
Richard Louis James interviewed by Tim Gaskin

Watch the interview.

The Return Of A Gay Icon

David Alexander Nahmod has written an excellent article in the February issue of OnBayArea.com about Tea 'N' Crisp and Richard Louis James.
Read the article 'Return of a Gay Icon'.

Tea 'N' Crisp in San Francisco

Image: Richard Louis James as Quentin Crisp in Tea 'N' Crisp. Richard performed the second run of his play at The San Francisco Playhouse on 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th of February 2008.
The success of the play was such that the theatre asked him to extend his run, but he had to go into preparation for A Mid Summer Night's Dream. So instead he will be returning to the theatre in June/July/August 2008 for a third run of Tea 'N' Crisp.
Read about the play 'Tea 'n' Crisp'.

Tea 'N' Crisp Promotional video

Image: Promotional DVD of Richard Louis James as Quentin Crisp in Tea 'N' Crisp. Richard Lewis James has just produced a promotional video of his show.
Read about the promo

Tea 'n' Crisp

Image: Richard Louis James as Quentin Crisp in Tea 'N' Crisp. Richard Louis James' one man play debuted at the Ashby Stage on 21-23 June 2007.
Read about the play 'Tea 'n' Crisp'.


Carved In Stone

Carved In Stone - Second Run

Image: Poster from the play 'Carved in stone'. Jeffrey Hartgraves and Leon Acord are hoping to put their play on in Los Angeles in the next 9-12 months.
Read more about the play 'Carved In Stone - Second Run'

Leon Acord interviewed by Nigel Kelly

Image: Leon Acord. Leon played Quentin Crisp in the highly acclaimed play Carved In Stone.
Read Leon's interview

Carved In Stone

Image: Poster from the play 'Carved in stone'. The play features Leon Acord as Quentin Crisp. Written by Jeffrey Hartgraves, directed by John Fisher and Co-Produced by Leon.
Read more about the play 'Carved In Stone'

Becoming Quentin Crisp

Leon Acord has written about his path to Becoming Quentin Crisp in The Quentin Crisp Archives


Quentin & I

David Leddick interviewed by Nigel Kelly

Image: David Leddick. David played Quentin in his own one man show "Quentin & I: The New Mini Musical".
Read David's interview

Quentin & I

Image: Poster for the play Quentin & I. David Leddick knew Quentin for twenty years and created this stage musical which debuted in March 2006.
Read more about the play 'Quentin & I'

Quentin & I: The New Mini Musical - DVD

Image: Quentin & I: The New Mini Musical - DVD David Leddick has produced a DVD of his performance.
Check it out on his own site

Becoming Quentin

Image: Front cover of dvd Becoming Quentin.
Becoming Quentin is a documentary which followed David Leddick's process of creating his one man show Quentin & I.
It also includes rare footage of Quentin Crisp performing his own one-man show.
You can purchase Becoming Quentin from Amazon.com


Resident Alien

Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp Explains it all.

Image: picture of Betty Bourne as Quentin Crisp. Dramatist Tim Fountain wrote this stage play based on Quentin's life and writtings.
Read more about the play 'Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp Explains it all'.

Resident Alien is now available for touring in 2007/8

Read details from Tim Fountain's site.