The Swamp Dwellers (Off-Broadway, Theatre for a New Audience @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 2025) | 半岛体育

半岛体育

The Swamp Dwellers

Off-Broadway


SYNOPSIS:

An ageing couple living on chronically flooded land, awaiting one of their twin sons from the city, is visited by a complacent Yoruba holy man and a blind Muslim beggar who trigger a terrible crisis of faith and trust. Corrupt religion, family betrayal, environmental disaster, post-colonial exploitation, urban modernity encroaching on rural tradition: the themes of this searing and heartbreaking drama are both timeless and palpably contemporary.



Directed by Awoya Timpo

Cast includes Ato Blankson-Wood, Leon Addison Brown, Joshua Echebiri, Jenny Jules, Jason Maina, Chik茅 Okonkwo, Olawale Oyenola