Theatre Royal Stratford East, London
Using photographs from an archive album of Auschwitz staff relaxing, this searing drama builds into an unforgettable inquiry

This play is based around a single photo album sent to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007. Inside were images from Auschwitz, not of the mostly Jewish prisoners but people working in the concentration camp, from top brass to those much further down the chain.

They are seen smiling, resting and putting up Christmas decorations. Whose album was this, who are the people in the photos and how can we ever fully know what led them here? In trying to reach its answers, this Pulitzer prize finalist, conceived by Moisés Kaufman, plays out like a profound, innovative and unique documentary detective drama.