A PLAY based on an infamous Nazi doctor is coming to the Quay Theatre in Sudbury.

Mengele is a powerful psychological drama making connections between past and present.

The notorious Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele, was never caught and lived a full life, eventually drowning while swimming off a beach in Brazil in 1979.

The play imagines him washed ashore, where he meets the mysterious woman that he assumes has saved him.

Flattered and entranced by this enigmatic figure, Mengele is lured into attempting to defend the indefensible before the performance reaches a powerfully dramatic and violent conclusion.

First created in 2017, this play has since won extravagant praise worldwide, being an officially Sold-Out Show at Edinburgh and Adelaide fringe festivals, as well as being performed in New York as a Fringe Encore winner.

Revised and recast for 2019, this acclaimed play opened at the Rialto Theatre on the first weekend of the Brighton Fringe before embarking on a UK tour and back to Edinburgh in August.

Writer Tim Marriott said: “At a time when anger, hatred and racism seem once more to be on the rise, Auschwitz survivor Lydia Tischler’s words seem particularly apt – ‘the important thing is to remember so that this does not happen again, for all of us have the capacity to be sadistic and horrible to other people. The potential for destructiveness is in all of us’.”

Mengele, by Philip Wharam and Tim Marriott, is performed by Maria Alexe and Tim Marriott, and directed by David Calvitto.

It is at the Quay Theatre on May 17 at 7.30pm. Tickets are £13.