A STARK production about the life of two men in a Nazi death camp will be performed in Darlington on Tuesday as part of events marking National Holocaust Memorial Day.

Ashes to Ashes, which will be staged at the arts centre at 1.30, is an award-winning play by the Badac Theatre Company.

On Monday - the day on which nationally the Holocaust is commemorated - the actors will take a workshop in the afternoon at Eastbourne Comprehensive School.

The play, written by Steve Lambert after a visit to Auschwitz/Birk-enau, is a moving story celebrating the power of the human spirit to transcend cruelty and hatred.

It tells, rather than shows, what went on in death camps from 1940 when the Nazi government began building the single greatest killing centre ever conceived by mankind.

People from all over Europe were shipped to Auschwitz/Birkenau to be either gassed on arrival or worked to death. 1,500,000 men, women and children are known to have died there.

The memorial day was established at the start of this century to provide a national mark of respect for the victims of Nazi persecution and to ensure that the crimes committed during the Holocaust are neither forgotten nor repeated.

The day also provides a focus for learning and reflection in schools and arts organisations.

Tickets for Ashes to Ashes are £8 (£6 discounts). A special ticket offer of £3.50 is available for students. For school or college parties, there is one free teacher ticket available for every ten booked.

For further information and tickets, contact the box office on 01325 486555.