The Toronto Star- Thursday, April 11, 2002
Vocalist Gives Fine Performance
Special To The Star
By John Lehr

The reason to see vocalist Fides Krucker's solo performance at Theatre Passe Muraille lies almost solely in the piece that gives the whole show its title, The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth, with music by Wende Bartley inspired by texts from Emily Dickinson and Anne Carson. Two other works, The White Lodge by Gavin Bryars, setting a text by Jules Verne, and Mercy Suite by Rainer Wiens, with text by Victoria Ward, worked together well in the first half of the show. But their combined impact was not half as great as that of Bartley's.

All three were theatre pieces that used tape as a musical environment for Krucker's voice and movement. But, where Bryars and Wiens were content to create mere backdrops for Krucker, Bartley constructed a set of interactive scenes that brought the audience successfully into the mind of the woman at the centre of this little drama. She connected mind with body more and more as the work progressed and learned to give voice to that connection. Krucker gave a fine, committed performance.
The show continues Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays until April 28.