Embers

EMBERS by Christopher Hampton, adapted from the classic novel by Sandor Marai 
May 15-25, 2025, Carnegie Stage
Pittsburgh Premiere, directed by Andrew Paul, starring Sam Tsoutsouvas, Jack Wetherall, & Susie McGregor-Laine

“Elegant, elegiac, and psychologically penetrating, a study of two wasted lives that microcosmically echo the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.”
- The Guardian

A riveting new adaptation of the classic novel starring Broadway actors Sam Tsoutsouvas and Jack Wetherall.

A remote 18th-century Hungarian castle is the setting for a dramatic meeting. Henrik, a retired General, awaits the arrival of his childhood friend, Konrad. They have not seen one another for more than 40 years, when Konrad mysteriously disappeared from Vienna following a fateful hunting trip. What happened between them so many years before?  Where has Konrad been for all these years? And will their long-awaited reunion bring answers to the questions that have haunted Henrik's life with such intensity?

Sandor Marai's rediscovered novel of the 1940s, turned into a play by Christopher Hampton, tells a compelling story of love, friendship and betrayal set against a backdrop of war-torn Europe and the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.