Embers Duke of Yorks Theatre - London

Oscar and Tony award-winning actor Jeremy Irons will return to the London stage next year after an

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 Frayns 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 Vienn

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