Nigerian Nobel Prize Winner’s 1958 Play, ‘The Swamp Dwellers,’ Comes to Life at Brooklyn’s Theatre for a New Audience
Wole Soyinka wrote this play while a student, yet the themes that inform ‘Swamp Dwellers,’ of family, faith, and tradition — and the endless opportunities they pose for conflict, corruption, and betrayal — are timeless and universal.
Wole Soyinka’s “The Swamp Dwellers” unfolds nearly seven decades ago, in a place most Americans have never visited: a village in the swamps of the Nigerian Delta. Mr. Soyinka, a native of that country whose plays and poetry have earned him many honors, including a Nobel Prize, wrote this one-act play back in 1958, while a student at the University of Leeds.
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