Before he was a Nobel laureate, before his name was canonized in the firmament of world literature, Wole Soyinka was a young playwright"barely in his mid-twenties"when he penned "The Swamp Dwellers" in 1958. And yet, this early work bears the unmistakable gravitas of myth: a compact, hour-long domestic drama that pulses with elemental force. In director Awoye Timpo's hauntingly grounded revival, the piece reverberate…
