This version of Embers is the 2001 translation by Carol Brown Janeway. As always, perhaps something is lost in the translation of language, time, and culture. I can't help but feel that this would make a great one-act, one-room play if you pared down the General's monologues. As is, they're a bit overblown and overlong. The sections that are the General's internalized memories of the past can largely be cut wholesale.
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