H*tler's Tasters
Off Bway, New Light Project at Theatre Row
Reviewed by Linda Buchwald
BOTTOM LINE: A timely dark comedy that is as fun as it is terrifying.
Teenage girls will be teenage girls, whether in present-day America or Nazi Germany. So, in the play H*tler's Tasters, when the teenage girls from good German stock who have been selected to taste Hitler's food for poison take breaks for selfies on their cell phones, the anachronisms don't feel that out of place. Sometimes as they gossip in their teen speak it's easy to forget where they are, but then the conversation will take a turn to what is really happening...
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