For their part, they are gullible enough to believe him. Jero is a master of manipulation and keeps his followers in a subservient position because he understands what they long for-money, social status, and power-and convinces them that they will soon be able to fulfill these materialistic desires. The Trials of Brother Jero is a light satiric comedy that takes aim at religious hypocrisy in the form of a charlatan, or fraud, named Brother Jero, who preaches to his followers on Bar Beach in Lagos, Nigeria. It is available from the same publisher as one of five plays in Soyinka's Collected Plays 2. The play was first published in Nigeria in 1963 and by Oxford University Press in 1964. Notable productions were staged at the Hampstead Theatre Club in London during June 1966, and at the Mews Theatre, New York City, beginning at the end of October 1967. It was first produced in the dining hall at Mellanby Hall, University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, in April 1960. The Trials of Brother Jero is a play by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka.
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