It’s hard to talk about Arbery’s play, in a way, because there’s so much talking in it, and the voices aren’t ones we hear often Off-Broadway. They are deeply religious, profoundly Catholic, proudly conservative, sometimes messianic. Arbery’s plays are important explorations of language… He’s showing us how language, even at its most beautiful, can destabilize a mind, a backyard, the world.” —Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
“An astonishing play.” —Jesse Green, New York Times
“A stunning play… Heroes of the Fourth Turning is so frighteningly well written, it’s hard to write about. It’s a rare play—lyrical and scary, brave and terribly gentle.” —Sara Holdren, Vulture
“The complexities of faith, politics, and personal history collide in Will Arbery’s bracingly original Heroes of the Fourth Turning, throwing off enough sparks to start a forest fire… While Heroes is a work of drama, not advocacy, the play takes its characters and their ideas seriously—and then goes the extra, necessary step of forcing them to confront the personal cost, for them and for us, of living out those ideas.” —Don Aucoin, Boston Globe
