our father

Leaders have the capacity to control every aspect of our lives. How much faith do you have in those who hold your lives in their hands?

The Peoples Temple was an organisation which existed from the mid-50s all the way through to the late 70s, which would culminate in the largest mass death of American civilians, not attributed to natural disaster, prior to 9/11.

The group was lead by the radical leader, Jim Jones, who promised a better life free from the oppression, inequality and injustice of the US government while fleeing from a prophesied nuclear war. They were directed to give up their livelihoods and property to serve the cause of socialism and move to a community they had built from the ground up in Guyana, known as Jonestown.

This play is composed of testimony mostly from recordings, as well as other documents and transcripts, that are publicly accessible, which show the path that brought the people within the temple and those who brought them there to the point of no return.

It serves as a historical retrospective experience designed to help audiences understand how leaders have the capacity to influence and change ones ways of thinking and accept an artificial version of reality completely behind their own.