Presented by Utopia Theatre
As the climate crisis, displacement and economic uncertainty reshape lives across the world, Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp Dwellers
Following the success of Crown of Blood, Utopia Theatre invites audiences to book now for a rare and intimate new production of this powerful and rarely staged play.
The Niger Delta, the late 1950s. The land is disappearing. A community stands on the edge. A Nigerian family living in a hut built on stilts over the swamp awaits the
Utopia director Mojisola Kareem (Crown of Blood, Death and The King’s Horseman) has thoughtfully resurrected lesser-known Wole Soyinka work The Swamp Dwellers, bringing it back to the UK stage for the first time in over half a century.
It is a quiet story of survival in a landscape pushed beyond its limits. In a world facing a climate emergency, this 70 year old story by Nobel Prize-winning writer and activist Soyinka hits harder than ever.
Running from 29 June to 11 July at the Utopia Creative Hub, with only 50 seats per performance, and performed up close and personal in the round, audiences will experience a story of migration, survival, environmental uncertainty and the search for a better future up close.
