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...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scot, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...
...last two aspects of his talent are most in evidence in The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed, though the two one-acters rank among his lesser plays. Brother Jero is a broad spoof of a religious humbug, a con man of prophecy who lives by mulcting his worshipers, or "customers," as he calls them in moments of absent-minded lucidity. He preys on their hopes, fears and vices, his own trial and joy being inveterate womanizing...
...That spoof recently made a big splash on A Series of Birds, the boldest, brashest and most controversial new show on British TV. The star, director, writer and most of the cast are John Bird, 30, whose devastating mimicry of Wilson and other world leaders made him the terror of the telly a few years ago on That Was the Week That Was. But unlike TW3, which confined its satire to a string of short, disconnected vignettes, Bird's new show preys on a wide range of subjects in one continuous 25-minute sketch...
...Curious Sofa -- "A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary." Harvard owns No. 83 of the 212 copies printed in 1961 of this work, which bears the title-page inscription, "A perfectly plain brown paper wrapper for purposes of public concealment may easily be made at home." It is an obvious spoof, but someone in Classification didn't laugh...
ALEXANDRIA, MINN., Theater L'Homme Dieu. Moliere's classic spoof of the medical profession, The Imaginary Invalid, tells of a hypochondriac hypocrite who discovers that the only way to save on bills is to become a doctor himself...