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There and Back Again, in Home, Breaking the Story, and What Became of Us
Three onstage journeys between realms.
Kittles, who initially conveys age and frailty with a bent back and the quiver of a hand, sits on a rocking chair center stage as Home ’s two-part chorus, played by Brittany Inge and Stori Ayers, both berate and praise him. Back home, he’s starting to heal, though still yearning for his lost childhood sweetheart Pattie Mae (whenever she appears, she’s played by Inge, who lends her a beatific upright posture) and railing against God, who he believes has abandoned him for a vacation in “the sun-soaked, cool beaches of Miami.” Home happens to be back at the same time as The Wiz, and Arnulfo Maldonado’s cornfield set inevitably puts the two works into conversation: They’re wrestling with the legacy of the Great Migration a generation later, wondering where comfort might lie for Black Americans.
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