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The Swamp Dwellers

Opening Date: Mar 30, 2025

Closing Date: Apr 20, 2025

The Swamp Dwellers
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Polonsky Shakespeare Center

262 Ashland Place Brooklyn, NY 11217

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In this rarely produced masterwork from 1958, Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka finds stunning universal resonance in a quietly tragic tale steeped in Yoruba myth and lore and set in a rustic hut in the Niger Delta. An aging couple living on chronically flooded land, awaiting one of their twin sons from the city, is visited by a complacent Yoruba holy man and a blind Muslim beggar who trigger a terrible crisis of faith and trust. Corrupt religion, family betrayal, environmental disaster, post-colonial exploitation, urban modernity encroaching on rural tradition: the themes of this searing and heartbreaking drama are both timeless and palpably contemporary. Director Awoye Timpo (Obie Award winner for Wedding Band) returns to collaborate with Theatre for a New Audience for another seminal mid-century work.
Off Broadway Play - Drama

Director

Awoye Timpo

Written by

Wole Soyinka

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Access for wheelchair users and individuals with limited mobility is available on all floors of Polonsky Shakespeare Center. For questions about accessible seating, please email tickets@tfana.org or call 212-229-2819 x10

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