Each of the three portions of the ballet was capable of evoking personal memories in anyone who experienced it. For those who have not yet experienced an exit wound, the ballet presages what life will bring. Only those with courage will be able to face it with equanimity. An audience member personally familiar with Stephen Mills work since the 1990s told me she was ‘overwhelmed’ by Exit Wounds, a creation ‘unlike anything he has done before, and never on such a personal level’.”