Timothy Nelson, the new artistic director of the In Series, managed to do this with his company debut, “Viva V.E. R. D. I.: The Promised End,” directed by Steven Scott Mazzola, which opened a two-week run at the Source Theatre on Saturday night. But I wasn’t sure how well the collage treatment would do by either Verdi or Shakespeare. Here as there, a raw nerve of music was exposed and laid directly on my own nerves, and I found myself fighting tears without being able to say entirely why. This piece, to me, did that, and said something significant about art in the process.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2018 18:50 UTC