Homecoming chronicles the life of Nwakibe, a retired head teacher and catechist, who embarks on a mission to find his missing son. It also follows Johnson, a writer, in search of a story for his new book. It is a story of quest, love, discovery, and how what one finds in life is capable of slipping through one’s hands.
“Homecoming is a humane diagnosis of the devastating trauma of loss, a quiet meditation on the possibilities of hope in a deeply melancholic situation.”
—Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
Curator, Selfies and Signatures: An Afro Anthology of Short Stories
“Cheta Igbokwe’s Homecoming plunges you afresh into a meditation on tragedy. You contemplate what Richard Sewall calls ‘the mystery of human suffering, that is basic to the tragic sense of life;’ you come face to face with what Nietzsche calls ‘the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things,’ the same thing the Chorus in T.S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion renders as the ‘curse [that] is written on the underside of things.”
—Leo Onyemuche Anele Ejesu
Writer, Critic and Lecturer,
Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
“Cheta Igbokwe writes from a director’s chair—a place of expertise and precision. He delivers not just a play but fragrances of life that hack our senses and remind us of the stuff nightmares are made of. A compelling piece.”
—Ngiga Review
“Laden with double entendres, Cheta Igbokwe’s Homecoming casts a clinical gaze on the narrow margins of freedom afforded humanity by powers that are more than man. Comical yet incisive, this play weaves a fantastic tapestry that resonates with the Euripidean tradition.”
Homecoming chronicles the life of Nwakibe, a retired head teacher and catechist, who embarks on a mission to find his missing son. It also follows Johnson, a writer, in search of a story for his new book. It is a story of quest, love, discovery, and how what one finds in life is capable of slipping through one’s hands.
“Homecoming is a humane diagnosis of the devastating trauma of loss, a quiet meditation on the possibilities of hope in a deeply melancholic situation.”
—Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
Curator, Selfies and Signatures: An Afro Anthology of Short Stories
“Cheta Igbokwe’s Homecoming plunges you afresh into a meditation on tragedy. You contemplate what Richard Sewall calls ‘the mystery of human suffering, that is basic to the tragic sense of life;’ you come face to face with what Nietzsche calls ‘the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things,’ the same thing the Chorus in T.S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion renders as the ‘curse [that] is written on the underside of things.”
—Leo Onyemuche Anele Ejesu
Writer, Critic and Lecturer,
Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
“Cheta Igbokwe writes from a director’s chair—a place of expertise and precision. He delivers not just a play but fragrances of life that hack our senses and remind us of the stuff nightmares are made of. A compelling piece.”
—Ngiga Review
“Laden with double entendres, Cheta Igbokwe’s Homecoming casts a clinical gaze on the narrow margins of freedom afforded humanity by powers that are more than man. Comical yet incisive, this play weaves a fantastic tapestry that resonates with the Euripidean tradition.”
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