A Discourse on The Evangelical Motifs in S. N. A. Agoro’s The Catalyst and Another Chance

This article examines the evangelical motifs in S. N. A. Agoro’s The Catalyst and Another Chance, the first two parts of his Prison Plays, and asks how drama carries Christian evangelism in an African setting. Scholarship has said little about how Agoro’s plays represent evangelism itself, and the article addresses that gap. Agoro’s Ultimate Theatre Theory, which treats theatre as an instrument of moral instruction and spiritual witness, supplies the theoretical framework. The study follows the literary method: close textual analysis of dialogue, characterisation and plot, set against secondary scholarship on motif, evangelism and religious drama. It finds that evangelism in the plays is relational, gradual and experiential. Redemption, forgiveness, moral constancy under persecution, patient influence, emotional awakening and the offer of a second chance recur across both texts, and conversion follows ethical example more reliably than argument. Akpan, Dada, Aneze and Udensi mark distinct routes to transformation, while Bonta and Zema show that refusal remains possible. The article recommends authenticity, patience and emotionally attentive outreach to evangelists, and fuller use of drama by literary practitioners for moral and spiritual instruction.