No, “Swampoodle” is not a relative of the Loch Ness Monster — it’s the old name for an Irish neighborhood in D.C.’s NoMa (North of Massachusetts) area that was settled in the 1850s by immigrants fleeing the potato famine. It’s also the name of a play written and directed by the Irish husband and wife team of Tom Swift and Jo Mangan that is debuting at the Uline Arena on Saturday. Why play in the Uline?
We were immediately drawn to the beauty of the building itself. The layers of paint and some of the traces of things, like [restroom] signs for ladies and gentlemen, all those things were immediately evocative. And it felt like it would make an astonishing place to set a piece of work for.
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