A good fight is like a well-choreographed dance. The combatants feed off each other’s movement and energy as the ebb and flow of power gives the affair a graceful energy. A good, dramatic two-person play is like a good fight. The characters come together for a shared dance but both find definition in the power they can extract from or must forfeit to the other.

“The Monsters” is a great play that feels at all times like an excellent, balletic fight. A world-premiere two-hander by Ngozi Anyanwu now running in Two River Theater ’s intimate black box space in Red Bank, the play introduces us to a pair of siblings, each of whom struggles to balance a fierce independent streak with the emotional and psychological drives for family and companionship. Directed by Anyanwu, the production’s taug

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