Monash drama students will tell the story of a group of young Germans who dared to stand up to Hitler in their latest production, The White Rose.

Performers from the latest Monash student production, The White Rose.

It will then head to Singapore, where the 60-strong cast will perform four shows in the Esplanade Studio Theatre at the city-state's major performance venue.

The musical is based on the true story of a group of Munich University students, who formed an underground movement known as the White Rose in the 1940s, challenging the policies of Hitler and the Nazis. The students were executed for their actions in 1943.

The director of The White Rose, and of the Centre for Theatre and Drama Studies, Professor Peter Fitzpatrick, said the Monash cast identified with their historical German counterparts.

"These aren't distant martyrs, they were the same age as our students, only about 20, 21 and 22, getting up to the same crazy stuff that our students do. They were obviously very bright and brave."

"The production confronts our company with the question of what they would do in the same situation."

The story was written by Harry Allen, a lecturer in theatre studies at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, prominent Melbourne writer Craig Christie and composer Andrew Patterson.

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Monash drama students will tell the story of a group of young Germans who dared to stand up to Hitler in their latest production, The White Rose.