“After an acclaimed run at Soho Rep last spring, Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s play is back for a longer stint in Brooklyn. Told in English and Bangla, with supertitles about the stage, the play depicts a Bengali American Ph.D. student and his American boyfriend’s trip back to Kolkata, where they research the local queer history and discover a complex family history along the way.”
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“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