For most of us who had to make his acquaintance in school, Euripides is a stonefaced statue, and his 2,400 year old play Orestes a dusty and decaying scroll of papyrus. But to Aaron Posner, the classical Greek dramatist is “a rebel…anything but old fashioned” and his work a theatrical experience that’s “modern, surprising, complex.”
In fact, when Orestes begins its run at Two River Theater Company this week, it’ll be subtitled A Tragic Romp with Posner and playwright Anne Washburn blowing the dust off this landmark work in a way that’s sure to recall the director’s energized editions of Shakespeare, Shaw and other stage titans. We’ve got an interview with Posner on the eve of what unfortunately looks to be the last Red Bank show personally helmed by the departing TRTC artistic director today, in Red Bank oRBit!
