Quentin and Harold Pinter
In the summer of 1955 while Quentin was living in Beaufort Street in London, Harold Pinter, then twenty four years old, together with some other guests from a party in another room, called on Quentin. He was then living with George Taylor.
Pinter later recalled that Quentin was wearing
"a voluminous open-necked shirt with a Peter Pan collor, purple baggy linen trousers and open sandals",
had
"exquisite hands which he used exquisitely"
and spoke
"as if he had just woken from sleep".
He later told Quentin that it was at this moment that he was first inspired to write a play.
The play 'The Room' is set in a
"snug, stuffy, rather down-at-heel bed-sit with gas fire and cooking facilities"
and
"an aura of self-containment".
It opens with a large man sitting at a table being served bacon and eggs by a small slightly built man wearing a filthy dressing gown. (Quentin was famed for never washing his dressing gown.)
Pinter later recalled that Quentin was wearing
"a voluminous open-necked shirt with a Peter Pan collor, purple baggy linen trousers and open sandals",
had
"exquisite hands which he used exquisitely"
and spoke
"as if he had just woken from sleep".
He later told Quentin that it was at this moment that he was first inspired to write a play.
The play 'The Room' is set in a
"snug, stuffy, rather down-at-heel bed-sit with gas fire and cooking facilities"
and
"an aura of self-containment".
It opens with a large man sitting at a table being served bacon and eggs by a small slightly built man wearing a filthy dressing gown. (Quentin was famed for never washing his dressing gown.)