The Swamp Dwellers

Opening Date: Mar 30, 2025

Closing Date: Apr 20, 2025

https://tfana.org/events/the-swamp-dwellers-2025-03-30-730-pm

Playing @

Polonsky Shakespeare Center

262 Ashland Place Brooklyn, NY 11217

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Theatre for a New Audience proudly presents the Off Broadway premiere of this 1958 masterwork. 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 Nigerian couple living in a swamp region is visited by a blind Muslim beggar and a Yoruba holy man as they await their son’s return home from the city. Religious corruption, family betrayal, opposing forces of tradition and modernity, the pull of self-determination, the wondrous and volatile relationship of humans to Nature: the themes of this searing, humorous and thrilling drama are both timeless and palpably contemporary. Director Awoye Timpo (Obie Award winner, Wedding Band) returns to collaborate with TFANA for another seminal mid-century work.

Off Broadway Play - Drama

Performance Schedule:

TUESDAY-FRIDAY @ 7:30 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM & 7:30 PM

No 2 PM performance March 30 & April 5

Cast

Ato Blankson-Wood
Leon Addison Brown
Joshua Echebiri
Jenny Jules
Jason Maina
Chiké Okonkwo

Director

Awoye Timpo

Written by

Wole Soyinka

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Accessibility:

Directions Subway

Atlantic Av Station [2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q]; Lafayette Av [C]; Fulton St [G].

Assisted Listening System

Assistive Listening Devices that transmit sound via headsets are available for all performances. For an Assistive Listening Device, please visit the box office before entering the mainstage theatre.

Restroom

Gender diversity is welcome at Theatre for a New Audience. All are welcome to use the restroom that best fits their identity. In addition to men’s and women’s restrooms on the first floor, there is a gender neutral single-stall private restroom on the mezzanine level (third floor).

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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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