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Thu 20 Nov

Landscape and A Slight Ache

by Harold Pinter

Landscape

So sweetly the sand over me.
Tiny the sand on my skin. (Pause)
So silent the sky in my eyes.
Gently the sound of the tide. (Pause)
Oh my true love I said.

‘In Landscape, Pinter is writing, beautifully and graphically, about physical nearness and emotional separation…One of Pinter’s best-written and most deeply felt plays.’
The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, Michael Billington

A middle-aged couple describe the vital scenery of their lives in a series of monologues.

A Slight Ache

Flora: Have you noticed the
honeysuckle this morning?
Edward: The what?
Flora: The honeysuckle.
Edward: Honeysuckle? Where?

A Slight Ache takes an oblique view of a long-married couple, the irascible Edward and his frustrated wife Flora, when the arrival of a statuesque silent stranger splinters their loveless bourgeois marriage. Simon Russell Beale and Clare Higgins play the couple in this early work by Harold Pinter.

Clare Higgins and Simon Russell Beale play two couples in this double bill by Harold Pinter.

Approx. running time for Landscape 40mins
Approx. running time for A Slight Ache 50mins
There will be an interval between the two plays.