The Swamp Dwellers

Title : The Swamp Dwellers
Venue : Panggung Bandaraya
Sultan Abdul Samad Building
Jalan Raja
Kuala Lumpur

Opening Hours :
Use of Panggung Bandaraya is allowed from 9am - 11pm.

URL :
http://www.dbkl.gov.my/panggung/
Date & Time : Wed 7 - Sun 11 May 2008 (Wed-Sat: 8.30pm; Sun: 3pm)
Tickets : RM42/ RM20 (Students)
Ticket Contact : Ticket2u.biz: 03-4149 8600/ 03-2091 1666)
Synopsis : The Swamp Dwellers is a play written by Nigerian playwright and Nobel prize winner Wole Soyinka, here adapted to a local situation.

The play examines ingrained traditions, beliefs, religion,life in the kampung and the city but stops short of making a pronouncement on the issues unraveled in the play.

Makuri¡¯s twins Along and Budin leave the Swamp for the city, yet both boys meet different fates.

Budin falls into debt and loses his wife but Along is a successful and wealthy merchant. In a tense scene, Budin questions the role of his priest and egged on by a blind beggar from the North, he insults the visiting priest, much to the chagrin of Makuri.

What happens next is up to the audience to conclude.

Starring Ahmad Yatim, Lim Soon Heng, Zaifri Husin, Lim Kien Lee and the Tandak Dance Ensemble.

With choreography by Guna, directed by Sabera Shaik and presented by the Masakini Theatre Company