Theatre for a New Audience Presents
THE SWAMP DWELLERS
By Wole Soyinka
Directed by Awoye Timpo
GET A NEW DEAL TICKET TO ANY PERFORMANCE FOR JUST $20!*
If you are 30 years old or under OR a full-time student of any age, you can purchase a $20 New Deal ticket (up to $95 value). Choose your seat, choose ticket type New Deal (change from Standard), and use promo code NEWDEALSKINT. ONE ID PER TICKET, FOR OTHER ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS – SEE BELOW.
YOU’RE INVITED TO OUR NEW DEAL NIGHT!
If you’re eligible for the New Deal, join us at New Deal Night on Thursday, April 17! Buy your $20 New Deal ticket for the 7:30PM performance of The Swamp Dwellers and stay for a free post-show talkback. This talkback will be immediately followed by a party at Fulton Hall with complimentary food and drinks and wonderful opportunities to connect with other artists and theatregoers.
SINGLE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE FOR $65** WITH CODE SKINT65!
GET TICKETS AT TFANA.ORG
Theatre for a New Audience proudly presents the Off-Broadway premiere of this 1958 masterwork. Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka finds stunning universal resonance in a quietly tragic tale steeped in Yoruba myth and lore and set in a rustic hut in the Niger Delta. An aging Nigerian couple living in a swamp region is visited by a blind Muslim beggar and a Yoruba holy man as they await their son’s return home from the city. Religious corruption, family betrayal, opposing forces of tradition and modernity, the pull of self-determination, the wondrous and volatile relationship of humans to Nature: the themes of this searing, humorous, and thrilling drama are both timeless and palpably contemporary. Director Awoye Timpo (Obie Award winner, Wedding Band) returns to collaborate with TFANA for another seminal mid-century work.
The Swamp Dwellers’ cast is: Ato Blankson-Wood (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Slave Play, Hamlet), Leon Addison Brown (Misery, The Trip to Bountiful, On the Waterfront), Joshua Echebiri (Merry Wives, Partnership, King James), Jenny Jules (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Crucible, Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman), Jason Maina (Culture Shock, There Goes the Neighborhood, Timon of Athens), Chiké Okonkwo (Julius Caesar, A Matter of Life and Death, His Dark Materials Parts I & II), and Olawale Oyenola.
Polonsky Shakespeare Center: 262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
* Each New Deal ticket holder must be 30 years of age and under, or a full-time student. A valid ID proving eligibility must be presented for each ticket purchased. IDs must be presented at entry beginning two hours prior to curtain. Failure to show proof of age or student ID will result in a surcharge for a full price ticket.
** $65 ticket discount offer expires 4/20/2025. Full price up to $95. Subject to availability. All internet and phone orders are subject to a handling fee. The offer may be discontinued at any time. Not valid for previous purchases.
Box Office hours are Monday–Saturday, 1–7pm and it can be reached at 646-553-3880 or tickets@TFANA.org.
Face masks are encouraged, but not required.
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Design by Paul Davis Studio / Paige Restaino
Deloitte and Bloomberg Philanthropies are the 2024-2025 Season Sponsors.
Principal support for Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs is provided by the Bay and Paul Foundations, The Jerome and Marlène Brody Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Fund at the New York Community Trust, The Dubose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Polonsky Foundation, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Thompson Family Foundation.
Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs are also made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the National Endowment for the Arts; Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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