Prince Max at The Den Theatre

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...Struve invents a Prince Max (Heather Riordan) who's a tourist, a dandy, and a true believer in scientific progress-but also a precursor to the bad old days of head-measuring anthropology, and Struve never lets us forget it. Bodmer (Charlee Cotton) mopes around the virgin landscape, wishing he could go home. Taking a principled stance against the racism of 19th-century explorers isn't a hard or very interesting thing to do, but the play, a revisionist fiasco, barters its whimsy for armchair sociology early on and never recovers."

Picture This Post - Recommended

"...This crystallizes in Max's repeated question to Bodmer and himself: do you see human beings as separate from one another, or as endless variations on a theme? A timeless query between two men as unalike as can be yet bound together in the same quest, this motif invites us to consider the characters, the historical figures, and ourselves, and how we fit into the artist's portrait of America."