Arena Theatre

Max is a gay man, sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He denies he is gay and gets the Jews' yellow label instead of the pink one. In camp he falls in love with fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink triangle with pride.

The subject matter of Bent - the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany - is highly charged and controversial. But it is, as Nicholas de Jongh described it in The Guardian, 'a play of importance, power and pathos which should concern us all'.

In its subtle characterisation and powerful analysis of human dignity under extreme duress, it is a play that transcends boundaries.