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Oscar and Tony award-winning
actor Jeremy Irons will return to the London stage next
year after an absence of 17 years. He will co-star in
Embers, a new play being brought to the West End by
a multi-award-winning team.
Based on the novel by Sandor Marai, Embers is
written by Christopher Hampton and directed by Michael
Blakemore.
Exploring themes of love, friendship and betrayal,
Embers is set in war torn Europe in 1940, in a
Hungarian castle, where a retired general Henrik (Irons)
awaits the arrival of Konrad, a friend he has not seen
for several decades.
Like Michael Frayn's COPENHAGEN, which Michael Blakemore
directed to great acclaim in the West End and on
Broadway (winning a Tony award for it as Best Director)
this new play concerns a key event in the past that was
pivotal in the lives of the protagonists.
In EMBERS, the fateful day was over 30 years before when
Konrad had abruptly deserted a hunting party he was on
with his lifelong friend Henrik. The following day
Konrad mysteriously fled Vienna leaving behind his two
inseparable friends - Henrik and his beautiful wife
Kriztina. The passing of so many years has not dulled
Henrik's memory of that day nor answered the questions
that still haunt him.
Hampton adapted the play from the late Hungarian writer
Sandor Marai's recently re-discovered novel which became
an international best-seller on its publication in
English and German in 2002. Michael Blakemore is one of
the UK's leading directors. His productions include the
premieres of plays by writers such as Peter Nichols,
David Hare, Arthur Miller and eight by Michael Frayn.
Christopher Hampton's plays, musicals and translations
have garnered three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards,
four Evening Standard awards and the New York Theatre
Critics Circle Award while prizes for his film and
television work include an Academy Award, two BAFTAs, a
Writer's Guild of America Award, the Prix Italia and a
Special Jury Award at the Cannes film festival. Eric
Abraham (Producer) - is a film, television and now
theatre producer. He is best known for producing the
Academy Award and Golden Globe winning film KOLYA (Best
Foreign Language Film) in 1997.
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