The conversation no parent wants to have and there's no right way to have it. We would do anything to protect our children and there doesn't seem to be a way for us to guarantee they won't be harmed. The best we can do is prepare them for the reality of what could happen. Powerful and well done.

I saw Permission at the Secret Theatre's Act One: One Act Festival and it blew me away! Carnes perfectly captured the dance we must do when parenting a teenage daughter. Nothing truly prepares us for how intensely our past experiences dictate our parenting styles, until we're confronted with it. And Carnes' play absolutely illustrates this.

I saw this tense, terse play tonight at The Secret Theatre’s One Act Festival, and was quite taken with Carne’s multi-layered portrait of a hover mother trying desperately to keep the trauma of her past from feeding her fear for her daughter’s future. A truthful, moving, and timely play.