Oct 21, 2019
Within the new off-Broadway play Heroes of the Fourth
Turning, playwright Will Arbery (son of two Wyoming Catholic
School professors) affords a nuanced, correct portrayal of the best way
conservatives discuss to one another when progressives aren’t round.
The characters are immediately recognizable to anybody who has spent
time amongst well-educated Catholic conservatives. The play has
attracted optimistic consideration from each secular and Catholic
media.
Is Heroes a zoological exhibit for
progressives to gape at, or one thing deeper? Is it in the end extra
unsettling to a perceptive Catholic viewer, for whom Arbery’s
troubled characters would possibly perform as an indictment of a Catholic
conservatism that may be targeted extra on concepts and temporal
issues than on the fact of Christ?
And if that’s the case, does the play itself acknowledge the character of the
drawback? That’s, does it deal substantively with its characters’
Catholicism, or, like a few of these characters, does it merely use
sure Catholic concepts within the service of temporal political
debates? Having seen Heroes of the Fourth Turning,
Thomas Mirus and James Majewski talk about.
Hyperlinks
Heroes of the Fourth Turning https://www.playwrightshorizons.org/reveals/performs/heroes-fourth-turning/
C. C. Pecknold’s assessment: https://catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2019/10/01/an-extraordinary-play-that-challenges-progressives-and-conservatives-alike/
Rod Dreher’s commentary: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher-tags/heroes-of-the-fourth-turning/
Theme music: “Franciscan Eyes”, written and carried out by
Thomas Mirus.
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