In its audacious attempts to appropriate the total resources of the theater, ancient and modern, Cemetery Road is a typical Esiaba Irobi play. Playing dangerously between the sacred and the profane, the macabre and the hilarious, the solemn rituals of the African Mask and the exigencies of a drama class, Irobi continues to extend the frontiers of his elemental drama which in due course we can only designate as ‘Irobisque’