“Can this be the best British opera in years? Luke Bedford’s Through His Teeth at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre is exceptional. Drop everything and go.”
“Distorted values, distorted reality. The designs (Becs Andrews) capture the psychological dislocation implicitly in David Harrower’s deceptively simple text. Walls slide across the stage, dividing it into tightly framed compartments…R controls A because she lets herself get cut off from the world around her. Yet. the walls of her “prison” are pierced with holes which she could look through if she wanted to.” Anne Ozorio