A new play based on Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi’s memoir “Survival in Auschwitz,” adapted for the stage by Antony Sher. Writer and chemist Primo Levi was an Italian Jew, internationally famous for his many writings, the first being this 1947 memoir (originally published in English under the title of “If This Is a Man”), his account of the time he spent in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the final year of World War II.

“Primo” premiered in the fall of 2004 at London’s National Theatre, followed by a run in Cape Town before returning for an engagement in the West End.