Hitler's Tasters

The Matrix
7657 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles

A dark comedy based on the largely unknown story of young German women conscripted to taste Adolf Hitler's food for poison, this fictional account explores the way girls navigate sexuality, friendship, and patriotism during the Third Reich. Using an anachronistic retelling of a historical footnote, Hitler's Tasters considers what girls discuss as they wait to see if they will survive another meal. Inspired by a 2014 interview with 94-year-old Margot Wolk who, for the first time, revealed her harrowing past as one of Adolf Hitler's food tasters. Margot, a German secretary at the time, was among fifteen young women selected for this "honor" at Hitler's Wolf's Lair.

Presented by Rogue Machine

Thru - Jun 3, 2024

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Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...Wait, where are we? Definitely in early-1940s Germany. But in Michelle Kholos Brooks' astoundingly funny, painfully real, and surprisingly current Hitler's Tasters, which opened last night at the Henry Murray Stage upstairs at the Matrix Theatre, anachronistic dialogue is used to normalize the frustrations of teenage girls - their meanness, insecurities, petulance, and quickness to bond - within the context of a world where people blindly follow a maniacal leader."

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- Tony Frankel

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...Playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks finds laughter even in the darkest of situations in her provocatively titled, fact-based H*tler’s Tasters, the latest uber-intimate “Upstairs at the Matrix” Rogue Machine hit."

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- Steven Stanley

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Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

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