A MOVING drama based around the evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany is being staged in Kidderminster next week.

But Kindertransport doubles up as a study of a mother-daughter bond and the feelings of possessive love, harmful guilt and distractions which get in the way of healthy relationships.

Diane Samuels' drama arose from extensive research into the evacuation of Jewish children in the run-up to the Second World War and autobiographical accounts of kindertransport survivors.

And audiences on Thursday and Friday, May 15 and 16, will have the chance to take part in a "talk-back" with the cast immediately after the production as part of a developing community programme at the town's Rose Theatre by resident group The Nonentities.

The play tells the story of Eva, who is sent to England by her mother Helga when she is nine to live with Lil.

In middle age Eva has to deal with the departure of her own daughter Faith into the wider world, a time of emotional turmoil which raises spectres of the past.

Faith is determined to understand her family history - but maybe her mother does not want to re-open past wounds.

Director Martin Drury said: "This is a lovely complex play that combines a particular area of national social history with folklore and a thorough examination of how one cannot wipe out the past; indeed how one needs to embrace it if progress is to be made towards the future."

Tickets are available by calling 01562 743745.