Bent at South London Theatre

Martin Sherman's shattering drama set in the Third Reich. Max, a promiscuous gay man in 1930s Berlin, is at odds with his wealthy family because of his homosexuality. One evening, much to the resentment of his boyfriend Rudy, he brings home a handsome Sturmabteilung man. But Hitler has just decided to get rid of the Sturmabteilung corps, which was infamous for same-sex inclinations among its ranks. The Sturmabteilung man is discovered and killed by SS men in Max and Rudy's apartment and the two have to flee Berlin. Max and Rudy are found and arrested by the Gestapo and put on a train headed for Dachau concentration camp.