The Room topic

The Room is the title of the first play written by Harold Pinter. Considered by critics the earliest example of Pinter's so-called Comedy of menace, this play has strong similarities to Pinter's second play, The Birthday Party, including features considered hallmarks of Pinter's early work: dialogue that is comically familiar and yet disturbingly unfamiliar, simultaneously or alternatingly both mundane and frightening; subtle yet contradictory and ambiguous characterizations; a comic yet... full article at wikipedia