PositiveThe Wall Street JournalMr. Barnes evoke[s] the life of an enigmatic hero of Belle Époque Paris, a surgeon known to \'everyone\' in his day but lost to us—how can he bring him vividly before our eyes ... Mr. Barnes keeps his eye on the emerging fragments, as his plethora of extraordinary characters continues to fill the stage ... Mr. Barnes keeps his eye, and ours, consistently on the shifting facets of Pozzi’s character as we read on, intrigued as he strides elegantly from surgery to salon to smoking room, always, in our mind’s eye, cutting a dash in that red coat. At one level, Pozzi’s story as told by Mr. Barnes is about style. But that is by no means all. Mr. Barnes is ever alert to the partiality of art and evidence.
