But the highlight for me was
the premiere of The Small Moments (in Life), a collaboration between
Judith Weir and Martin Duncan, high priest of performance art. Lasting
barely 15 minutes (and repeated at intervals), this was in effect ten
mini-operas by Weir, with titles such as Emily Pankhurst Hypnotises
Her Sister and Don Giovanni up a Ladder performed simultaneously,
while the peripatetic audience was prodded from one to the next by acolytes
with their heads in paper bags. This was a little miracle of wit, yet
at the same time rather more than that, a happening of infinite mystery
and substance. It must be repeated, somehow, somewhere.
The Times, June 10, 1992