LATTE Theater proudly presents M*A*S*H
Plymouth Place Auditorium
315 N La Grange Road,
La Grange Park, IL
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MASH touched our hearts. It changed the face of television and entertainment as we knew it. And with good reason. The unforgettably complex characters made you laugh and cry, often at the same time. All while bringing to light the insanity of war through a medical triage team that created its own comedic bedlam so as not to go crazy. They cared about saving lives, no matter how angry, exhausted, and stretched they were. MASH shows the best of humanity. For it is a comedy, trauma, satire, and melodrama… all at once.
The teens of LATTE were stoked to take on the challenge of creating MAS*H for you, and at the same time, felt a huge responsibility to “do it right”. In LATTE, we truly dramaturg a show and do a deep dive into what it meant when it was written then, and how it resonates now. We met with and were privileged to listen to the real service experiences of the men and women of La Grange’s American Legion Post 1941. We had a wonderful field medic from Afghanistan who shared his story with us – while also teaching the teens different triage surgical movements to honor the surgeries that saved so many lives.
We discussed PTSD in war -and what the teens have to face feeling their schools could erupt into being a battle zone. They shared their honest thoughts on the potential of war nowadays, terrorism, and how diversity and genders had different powers now and then. And as one veteran shared, “I had no words to share with my family as to what I experienced…. Then I watched MAS*H. And we wept together.
The teens researched the Korean Conflict—shocked that it wasn’t officially called a war—and parents who selflessly served our military shared stories for the first time with their children as they all sat down to watch MASH together. Fifty years after it was originally created, we are honored to bring you MASH to the stage.
And now? No more spoilers! Thanks, a LATTE, for supporting the Arts and Youth in our program! You make such a difference!
Felicia Pfluger, Founder, Director, Producer of LATTE
Felicia Pfluger
Producer/Artistic Director
LATTE Theater
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