If theater to you is sustenance, if you are the sort of person who savors the daring and the visionary, then head to New Jersey, where the Italian avant-garde director Romeo Castellucci and his company, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, are offering a thrilling repast at Montclair State University — but only through Sunday.

The production, "Go down, Moses," part of the invaluable Peak Performances series at the Alexander Kasser Theater, is intended as a contemporary transfiguration of the Moses story, but don't expect an updated version of Exodus. Mr. Castellucci, whose work has often been seen in Montclair but, mystifyingly, is never seen in New York City, is engaging with Moses mostly on an abstract level.

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