Mind on Fire presents a compelling and immersive interior journey
Washington Classical Review
“an intimate theater piece on loneliness and self-exploration”
Reviewing the January 2025 premiere at Baltimore’s Voxel Theatre, Washington Classical Review described an hour-long immersive double bill: the chamber opera Nobody Is Ever Missing, adapted from Catherine Lacey’s novel, interspersed with the vocal song cycle Anchorites. The review singled out the production’s staging — performers moving freely among scattered audience seats — and praised the score’s restraint, noting how the music’s halting, static character captured the drift and interiority of the source novel’s narrator. The four-voice writing in Anchorites, set to texts by Tao Lin, Julian of Norwich, and John Berryman, was highlighted for suggesting medieval chant without slipping into pastiche.