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The Swamp Dwellers
Opening Date: Mar 30, 2025
Closing Date: Apr 27, 2025
Playing @
Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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.
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
Written By
- Wole Soyinka
Director
- Awoye Timpo
TDF Tickets Offers:
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Full-price tickets:
$102.00 - $132.00
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Accessibility
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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). -
Wheelchair Info
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
