Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jul 07, Rick rated it it was amazing. I love "A Slight Ache. It's a 3-character play, or actually 2, since it was originally designed to be performed on radio. The "silent" character is a roughly dressed, rather sinister match-seller, who never makes a sale because he constantly stands in an alley that leads only to the monastery.
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The other 2 characters are an upper-class English couple who lead sheltered suburban lives. The gentleman works up coura I love "A Slight Ache. The gentleman works up courage to speak to the matchseller and finds his tray of matches is all wet and moldy. This leads to one of the many memorable lines of the play; "You'll never get ahead in business if you don't take care of your goods!
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Sorry, these few lines can hardly hint at the delightful dialogue in this funny, tragic drama. Sep 08, Clint Davis rated it it was amazing Shelves: Another frightening, enigmatic look into the human psyche from Pinter. He really paints an ugly picture of the human condition.
The two characters - an aging married couple - exemplify the worst characteristics of insecurity and control. Fear of the unknown is a major theme, as Edward tries to trap and examine anything he doesn' Another frightening, enigmatic look into the human psyche from Pinter. Fear of the unknown is a major theme, as Edward tries to trap and examine anything he doesn't understand.
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A bit of dialogue and action in the opening pages is agonizing to read, as the couple debate over the best ways to kill a wasp that was unlucky enough to fly into their home. Pinter had the gift of finding unsettling terror in every corner of everyday life. He proves it again here and in just one act! A fascinating, quick read. Jul 09, Angela Randall marked it as to-read Shelves: We own this as part of a collection of plays in one book: Jan 25, tomwrote rated it really liked it Shelves: The dread coalesces through the play, growing more and more focused on a mysterious 'other' who comes to represent every fear, fantasy and lost hope.
Compact and absurd and extremely unsettling. Jul 08, Fateme Beygi rated it liked it Shelves: Jan 10, Fishsanwitt marked it as to-read Shelves: Dec 07, Issa rated it liked it Shelves: Another lovely play by Pinter. It's a long one-sided conversation with the matchseller. The language in here is irresistible.
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Jan 27, Danijel rated it liked it. I felt a bit insulted at the end May 10, Paulina rated it really liked it. Aug 24, Steven rated it it was ok Shelves: Another of those awkward, slightly sinister, Pinter radio plays. This is one of those things you read where you start to feel quietly alarmed about reality. That's all I'm gonna say. Erin Langley rated it it was amazing Mar 27, Rachel rated it really liked it Dec 10, Jorge Terrones rated it liked it Aug 18, Katherine rated it it was amazing Sep 19, Ali Farzanegan rated it liked it Sep 06, Nastaran rated it really liked it Dec 29, Unfortunately the play soon becomes drearily predictable, as a sinister, silent match-seller invades the couple's territory that recurring theme in Pinter reducing the husband first to bluster and then to abject terror, even as he succeeds in attracting the affections of the wife, who treats him as both lover and child.
The writing feels like Pinter by numbers, with its tiresomely insoluble air of enigma, and the portrayal of the wife as both mother and whore. Meanwhile the decision of director Iqbal Khan and designer Ciaran Bagnall to make the match-seller look like the victim of terrifying third-degree burns, his face and clothes charred to resemble a spent match, compound the impression that apart from its atypical opening, the play isn't much more than a musty relic of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Landscape is far more satisfying. A husband and wife sit at either end of a long table, in the kitchen of a great house where they were once employed as servants, though the place now appears to have been abandoned by its owner.
Russell Beale's rough-spoken Duff describes his day, in banal and often crude words, behind which one detects a desperate yearning to break into his wife Beth's reserve and re-establish intimacy with the woman whom he admits to having once betrayed. Clare Higgins's remote, memory-haunted Beth however, is entirely locked in her memories of a beautiful day by the sea when she was caressed by water and discovered her "one true love" asleep in the dunes and asked him if he would like a child before they made love.
As so often with Pinter I found myself irritated by the play's deliberate air of mystification. Who was Beth's lover?
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Her husband in his youth? The master of the house?
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