“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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“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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The Swamp Dwellers runs through April 20 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center.