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- Embers is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English in 1957. First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 24 June 1959, the play won the RAI prize at the Prix Italia awards later that year. Donald McWhinnie directed Jack MacGowran – for whom the play was specially written – as "Henry", Kathleen Michael as "Ada" and Patrick Magee as "Riding Master" and "Music Master". The play was translated into French by Beckett himself and Robert Pinget as Cendres and was published in 1959 by Les Éditions de Minuit. The first stage production was by the French Graduate Circle of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, 1977." The most recent version of Embers was broadcast in 2006 on BBC Radio 3 and directed by Stephen Rea. The cast included Michael Gambon as Henry, Sinéad Cusack as Ada, Rupert Graves, Alvaro Lucchesi and Carly Baker. This production was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 16 May 2010 as part of a double bill with a 2006 production of Krapp's Last Tape. Opinions vary as to whether the work succeeds. Hugh Kenner calls it "Beckett’s most difficult work" and yet maintains that the piece "coheres to perfection," John Pilling disagrees, remarking that Embers "is the first of Beckett’s dramatic works that seems to lack a real centre," whereas Richard N. Coe considers the play "not only minor, but one of [Beckett’s] very few failures." Anthony Cronin records in his biography of Beckett that "Embers met with a mixed reception [but tempers this comment by noting that] the general tone of English criticism was somewhat hostile to Beckett" at the time. The author's own view was that it was a "rather ragged" text. He said that it was "not very satisfactory, but I think just worth doing … I think it just gets by for radio." For all his personal reservations the play won the RAI prize in the 1959 Prix Italia contest, not, as has been often reported, "the actual Prix Italia … which went to John Reeve’s play, Beach of Strangers." (en)
- Ceneri (in lingua inglese Embers) è un radiodramma breve in un atto unico scritto nel 1958 dal drammaturgo irlandese Samuel Beckett per la BBC e stampato per la prima volta sulla rivista "Evergreen Review", X, novembre-dicembre 1959, quindi nella raccolta Krapp's Last Tape and Embers, Faber and Faber, London 1959. La traduzione francese dell'autore in collaborazione con l'amico Robert Pinget, fu pubblicata prima sulla rivista "Les Lettres Nouvelles" del 30 dicembre 1959 e quindi dalle Éditions de Minuit in La dernière bande suivi de Cendres (1960). Quella italiana, di Carlo Fruttero, in Teatro, presso Einaudi nel 1968. L'opera fu trasmessa per la prima volta il 24 giugno 1959 con la regia di Donald McWhinnie, il protagonista era Jack MacGowran. Vinse il Prix Italia. La prima italiana, per la regia di Giorgio Bandini, con Salvo Randone, fu trasmessa dalla RAI il 29 gennaio 1960. (it)
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- Embers is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English in 1957. First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 24 June 1959, the play won the RAI prize at the Prix Italia awards later that year. Donald McWhinnie directed Jack MacGowran – for whom the play was specially written – as "Henry", Kathleen Michael as "Ada" and Patrick Magee as "Riding Master" and "Music Master". The play was translated into French by Beckett himself and Robert Pinget as Cendres and was published in 1959 by Les Éditions de Minuit. The first stage production was by the French Graduate Circle of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, 1977." (en)
- Ceneri (in lingua inglese Embers) è un radiodramma breve in un atto unico scritto nel 1958 dal drammaturgo irlandese Samuel Beckett per la BBC e stampato per la prima volta sulla rivista "Evergreen Review", X, novembre-dicembre 1959, quindi nella raccolta Krapp's Last Tape and Embers, Faber and Faber, London 1959. La traduzione francese dell'autore in collaborazione con l'amico Robert Pinget, fu pubblicata prima sulla rivista "Les Lettres Nouvelles" del 30 dicembre 1959 e quindi dalle Éditions de Minuit in La dernière bande suivi de Cendres (1960). Quella italiana, di Carlo Fruttero, in Teatro, presso Einaudi nel 1968. (it)
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