Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Off Bway, Playwrights Horizons
Reviewed by Keith Paul Medelis
BOTTOM LINE: Will Arbery searches for “something true” in conservative rhetoric.
Will Arbery's epically named new play Heroes of the Fourth Turning takes its title from the controversial Strauss-Howe generational theory, which is excitedly voiced by own of his characters. According to authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, history occurs in a series of four recurring generations, or turnings—High, Awakening, Unraveling, Crisis. We are now in Crisis....
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