Freud on Cocaine Reviews

LA Splash- Highly Recommended

"...Kudos to the four principals, who do a bang-up job of portraying Freud, Martha, Emmeline, and his best friend Ernst. Skora attempts to stick to the facts while twisting and turning them into very funny lines. In reality, Freud used up to a gram of cocaine daily for at least a decade – a decade which saw him become the king of cocaine – but also a decade which largely preceded his seminal work on dreams, psychoanalysis, and the id, ego, and superego."

On Stage Los Angeles- Highly Recommended

"...Howard Skora's World Premiere Comedy "Freud on Cocaine" .. if for no other reasons than to enjoy Michael Mullen's spectacular costumes is a snow trip not to be missed. (Little hip reference there, eh?)"

Night Tinted Glasses- Highly Recommended

"...I wish my words could easily portray just how dizzyingly fun this play is, especially given what is after all some extremely serious subject matter. Yet after all do we not laugh in order not to cry? Or, sometimes, to let ourselves go enough to allow a real weeping bout when we need it? Anachronisms abound, often delightfully so. While we laugh often and loudly we also feel the pain of these people who keep trying to win, to make it right, to learn, to escape and yet accept responsibility. It makes for a deliriously dysfunctional mess, both comedy and tragedy in equal parts."

Stage Raw- Highly Recommended

"...A drug-fueled theatrical romp unlike any other has taken the stage at Whitefire Theatre: Freud on Cocaine by Howard Skora, the fourth of Skora’s works to be produced at the venue."

The Hollywood Times- Recommended

"...Howard Skora's play is a comedy and, as such, dances over the surface of things without delving too deeply into the complexity of Freud's own mind or his densely theoretical musings. There are many faces to Freud and, depending one's own exposure to his writings and one's own experience with any like of psychological counseling or therapy, the way we look at Freud will vary hugely. Skora has good fun with the excesses of Freud's early career, and perhaps, that is the best way to handle this interesting topic of Freud and cocaine."