COLIN SELF & RAUL DE NIEVES . The Fool (Elation V)

From Act 4: The Hallucination of Time co-written and directed by Colin Self and Raul De Nieves

The Fool (Elation V) is an opera co-written by Colin Self and Raul De Nieves, debuted at Issue Project Room on November 11th, 2014 and presented again at The Kitchen NYC on February 9th-11th, 2017. The Fool, is scored in four-acts for chorus and string-ensemble.

The Fool is a mystical allegorical journey performed by a group of friends in their quest to unite themselves one with the other. The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. The Fool is both the beginning and the end, neither and otherwise, betwixt and between. The Fool is a story.