Perdition is a 1987 stage play by Jim Allen.It deals with a libel action in Israel a few years after the Second World War, which looks into alleged collaboration during the War between the leadership of the Zionist movement in Hungary and the Nazis.Its starting point of research comes from the trial of Rudolf Kastner, a leading member of the Budapest Aid and rescue committee whose job it was to help Jews escape from the clutches of the Nazi’s in Hungary.