“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, modern—mingle and surge toward confrontation.” —Dan Stahl, The New Yorker
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“Director Awoye Timpo and a pitch-perfect cast slowly crank up the intensity, balancing knife-edge tension with a deeply metaphorical story…Exciting, beguiling theater.” —Rachel Graham, TheaterMania
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“Timpo has the ensemble playing like an orchestra…Rooted in the deepest questions and conflicts of myth…It packs a lot of punch into a compact package.” —Loren Noveck, Exeunt
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“I felt the specific kind of joy while watching The Swamp Dwellers that great theater always elicits…I found beauty. It was so individual, so immersive…a feat of imagination, language, and story.” —Gloria Oladipo, 3Views
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“Haunting…pitch-perfect…a production sharply attuned to the work’s mysterious rhythms.” —Juan A. Ramirez, Theatrely
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“A superb production…timeless and universal…What may be most striking is how familiar its characters, created long ago and positioned far away, seem throughout.” —Elysa Gardner, The New York Sun
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★★★★ “A handsome production, directed sure-handedly by Awoye Timpo.” —David Finkle, New York Stage Review
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“Gorgeously crafted. It is an incendiary work that speaks directly to our troubled world…does it all with poetic richness and subtly brilliant creative decisions…every detail tells a story.” —Vahni Kurra, Front Row Center
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The Swamp Dwellers runs through April 27 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center.