A Permanent Image Reviews
LA Splash- Recommended
"...Kudos to the actors in this play. Their performances are especially strong as they interact with and dance around family secrets"
Stage Scene LA- Recommended
"...Still, like the greatest of American playwrights before him, Hunter creates characters (and reveals universal truths) that we all can identify with, and time spent in the bleak, frigid Idaho that inspires him is time well spent."
Examiner- Recommended
"...Shakespeare in Geer is typically Shakespeare for a general audience and the post-Civil War set production of As You Like It directed by company matriarch Ellen Geer is no exception."
Cultural Weekly- Recommended
"...A Permanent Image comes loaded with plenty of surprises, the biggest of which is that it has a stoic spine that holds up a heavy subject and many laughs. One can rejoice that Rogue Founding Artistic Director John Perrin Flynn's unflinching staging of a piece on a hotly controversial topic gives three fine performers permission to dive in, pulling no punches."
Showmag- Recommended
"...Under Matt Walker's exquisitely detailed direction "� with the skilled contributions of a design team that makes this Franco-infused farce a pristine jewel of a production, including Christopher Scott Murrillo's elegant scenic design, Kim DeShazo's fetching costumes, Jeremy Pivnick's well-worked lighting motif and Mark McClain Wilson's perfectly timed sound effects " "Heir Apparent"� is a pleasing enactment of what playwright Ivey's describes as a "translaptation" (part translation; part adaptation) of Regnard's original script, by a reliable crew and a charming cast."
Theatre Spoken Here- Not Recommended
"...When the play ended with Mom taking the potion, the audience burst into applause. Have we really sunk so low that a pointless suicide merits applause?"