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Wole Soyinka's 'The Swamp Dwellers' depicts a Nigerian family at a crossroads (Off Broadway review)

by Thom Geier

Wole Soyinka is a seminal figure in world literature and drama, but the 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize winner's works are seldom performed in New York. That's particularly true of his 1958 drama The Swamp Dwellers, which is getting a handsome and thoughtful production at Brooklyn's Theatre for a New Audience. The play, written on the […]

SOURCE: Culture Sauce at 9:00pm on April 10, 2025