'The BLO mounted a stylish, clever production. Designer Caleb Wertenbaker used curtains and platforms to transform the bare-bones brick Cyclorama into a white anatomical theater with the audience as the spectators. Nancy Leary supplied evocative period costumes, in color for the living and bleached out (with matching makeup) for the dead, while director David Schweizer deftly managed the constant zigzagging from killers to buyers to victims.'
-Heidi Waleson, The Wallstreet Journal

'Director David Schweizer and the rest of the creative team served the show well. Caleb Wertenbaker’s sets were minimal and effective, and the in-the-round setup at the Cyclorama helped to evoke a public dissection theater.'
-Zoë Madonna, The Boston Globe

'when Boston Lyric Opera schedules a production in a venue such as the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts (with Set Designer Caleb Wertenbaker strongly suggesting a pure white operatory), you're in for an unusual operatic and theatrical experience. Yet this one is closely based on a darkly true story, with occasional dark humor, as told through the experience of the victims.'
-Jack Craib, South Shore Critic