Beckett's Embers concerned with fading memories

Samuel Beckett’s Embers is concerned with how memory fades, says Richard Fitzpatrick

THE Dublin theatre company, Pan Pan, who have produced some of Ireland’s most original theatre since their foundation in 1991, are staging Samuel Beckett’s radio play, Embers, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival this weekend. They produced another Beckett radio play, All That Falls, in 2011.

Beckett denied the Swedish filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman, permission to do Embers in 1963. But Pan Pan passed muster with his estate.