HUNGER: IN BED WITH ROY COHN: 79% – SWEET

Barry Pearl in "Hunger: In Bed with Roy Cohn" at the Odyssey Theatre. Credit: Michael Lamont.

BITTERSWEET
Great direction and great cast provide a fascinating fresh look at an old demon. Even if the bad boy Cohn stays irritating and rotten – does he really go to heaven in the end?/ that’s right, this is only a fantasy! – he’s still somewhat amusing to watch.
Don Grigware – BroadwayWorld

SWEET
Waiting for judgment, Cohn is a little boy trying to be a big one. That core idea isn’t half as interesting as the kaleidoscopic swirl of history, so well performed and cleanly staged by Jules Aaron.
Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly

SWEET
Despite the disjointed presentation, Hunger is a very funny and ironic piece.
Keisha7 – LASplash

BITTERSWEET
Jules Aaron, who it seems directs half the shows in LA, does a commendable job of keeping things moving and extracting the humor. Still, trying to humanize Roy Cohn is not the most exciting or entertaining subject matter.
Robert Machray – Blog Critics

SWEET
It’s Aaron’s excellent direction, aided by Kay Cole’s captivating choreography, that makes this Brechtian leap, which Beber sets in purgatory, such a dazzling experience.
Dink O’Neal – Backstage

SWEET
The play in question is Hunger: In Bed With Roy Cohn, and if its avant-garde surrealism would under most circumstances prove too artsy for this reviewer’s tastes, its fact-based focus on fascinating 20th Century history-makers combined with one of the most stunning production designs in 99-seat-plan history and electric performances under Jules Aaron’s highly imaginative direction make Beber’s maiden effort one well worth taking a chance on.
Steven Stanley – StageSceneLA

BITTERSWEET
So the parade of imagery skillfully assembled by director Jules Aaron, choreographer Kay Cole and the design team for the production at the Odyssey Theatre often seemed like much ado about very little. Perhaps scholars of that era or Cohn in particular might have been fascinated, but the play needs a sturdier portal for general audiences.
Don Shirley – LA Stage Watch

HUNGER: IN BED WITH ROY COHN
Odyssey Theatre
2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., W.L.A.
Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m.; through March 11, 2012
Tickets: (310) 477-2055