“Re-encountering the work, he is painfully struck by his young self’s optimistic depiction of ‘a kind of hybrid community made up from different parts of the country. That play now makes me recollect very vividly that eve of independence season when we were all gung-ho about the emergence of a unified society,’ he said.”
The Swamp Dwellers runs through April 20 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
Read more from The New York Times here.
“Directed with unhurried assurance by Awoye Timpo…Astonishing set design (by Jason Ardizzone-West)…The play becomes a delta…where tributary identities—Muslim, Yoruba, traditional,
“Re-encountering the work, he is painfully struck by his young self’s optimistic depiction of ‘a kind of hybrid community made
TFANA will present the off-Broadway premiere of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dwellers, directed by OBIE winner Awoye Timpo (Alice