Vasiliev ‘lays his pain on the line’ as Le Jeune Homme, writes Luke Jennings

Vasiliev, his eyes wild and his muscled body quivering with barely controlled rage, compels the attention from the first. His physical acting is huge and raw, his expressions silent-era cinematic. And his leaps, as always, seem to hurl a challenge to gravity – especially a flying dive in which he seems to hang, horizontal, some six feet from the ground. He hasn’t quite the finesse of the great Mikhail Baryshnikov, but he has a furious, wounded-lion sincerity that is ultimately more engaging. He lays his pain on the line. The Guardian