A Slight Ache
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A Slight Ache is a play by Harold Pinter about a couple (Edward and Flora) who don't really love each other. Thus, Edward has fears that their marriage will break down which are reflected in the slight ache he feels constantly. Flora expects somebody to come. The Matchseller appears who arouses attraction in Flora. She finally treats him like a husband completely forgetting about Edward.
Main themes: dreams and desires, superiority and inferiority. Flora dreams about the Match Seller. Fears- a slight ache is only psychological, it represents Edward's fears.
Flora's husband sees himself as a man's man: master of his house, knows nothing about flowers and stuff. Outside a silent match-seller. Is he a threat? What does he want? The play is about fear and how you deceive yourself by trying to disarm the enemy: social reality is made sinister by an eerie sense of symbolism."The Sunday Times 'Culture' April 9 2006"
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| The Plays of Harold Pinter |
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| Plays : Ashes to Ashes, The Basement, Betrayal, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, Celebration, The Collection, The Dumb Waiter, The Dwarfs, Family Voices, The Homecoming, The Hothouse, A Kind of Alaska, Landscape, The Lover, Moonlight, Monologue, Mountain Language, A Night Out, Night School, No Man's Land, Old Times, One for the Road, Party Time, Remembrance of Things Past (with Di Trevis), The Room, Silence, A Slight Ache, Tea Party, Victoria Station, Voices (with James Clarke) Sketches : Apart from That, Applicant, The Black and White, Dialogue for Three, Interview, Last to Go, The New World Order, Night, Precisely, Press Conference, Request Stop, Special Offer, That's All, That's Your Trouble, Trouble in the Works |
