←Recommendations of Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Such a valuable play, and now is the perfect time for it, too. I had heard so many good things about this play from the likes of Laura Pittenger and Franky Gonzalez (read them!).
Here we get to spy on our conservative neighbors as they slowly unravel right in front of us. Arbery offers his characters sympathy and affection, while never losing sight of the dangerous undercurrent beneath their thoughts, and of our political divisions.
Whole classes could be taught about Emily's final monologue. It is a masterpiece.
This whole play is an argument for why art exists at all.

I had a really hard time with this play and struggled immensely in the theatre because the dialogue is so well written and the characters were so difficult to like, and this is ultimately a good thing with which to contend - such mimesis! Kudos to Arbery who is able to write such arias with such an open heart.

As soon as I finished this play, I started reading it again. Arberry crafts his characters with such care that one can hate them and empathize with them simultaneously. It’s a jarring and necessary play that generated a familiar dread inside of me. Read it, then read it again.

There are plays that impress. There are even plays that shock you. Heroes of the Fourth Turning did both and something much more. It left me awed. I almost couldn't move from my seat in the theatre. Then buying and reading this play that outlined the evolution of conservatism from Goldwater to Bannon was like receiving something deeply true. Arbery has created a play that does not patronize nor seek to turn its subject matter into cartoon parodies like we see from so many other plays about conservatives. It's a play that won't leave you. I can't recommend it enough.

An incredible play. It climbed inside me and changed my cells. This play can change the world, I cannot recommend it more highly.

A beautifully compassionate rendering of a community in flux, living lives of quiet desperation. A unique lens on intelligent conservative Catholicism and its disciples during the Trump era. Wry, sly writing - passionate and deceptively unruly.