by Will Arbery
directed by Blanka Zizka
Production Designer: Matt Saunders
Director of Photography/Editor: Jorge Cousineau
Sound Designer/Mix Engineer: Christopher Colucci
Costume Designer: Vasilija Zivanic
Stage Manager: Patreshettarlini Adams
Assistant Director of Photography: Taj Rauch
Sound Engineer: Joe Samala
Wardrobe Supervisor: Morgan Porter
COVID Officer: Missy Furth
Fight Consultant: Eli Lynn
Producer: Kellie Mecleary
TERESA: Sarah Gliko
KEVIN: Justin Jain
JUSTIN: Jered McLenigan
EMILY: Campbell O’Hare
GINA: Mary Elizabeth Scallen
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A town of 7,000 in western Wyoming.
August 19, 2017
Two days before the solar eclipse.
One week after the Charlottesville riot.
The night of Gina’s inauguration as president of Transfiguration College of Wyoming.
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Lead Artistic Director, 2020-21 Season: Yury Urnov
Co-Artistic Directors: Morgan Green, James Ijames, Blanka Zizka
Managing Director: Leigh Goldenberg
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Herman and Helen Fala
Linda and David Glickstein
Mari Shaw
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Special thanks to SAG-AFTRA
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Heroes of the Fourth Turning is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning in 2019
Heroes of the Fourth Turning was developed by The Cape Cod Theatre Project, Hal Brooks, Artistic Director
“Nothin”
Written by Townes Van Zandt
©1970, JTVZ Music (ASCAP), Katie Bell Music (ASCAP), Will Van Zandt Publishing (ASCAP)
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Captured digitally as a site-specific production, created in a closed quarantine “bubble” at a private location in the Poconos, following strict health guidelines.
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We acknowledge that our theatre is located on land that is not ours. We acknowledge that the Lenni Lenape people are the original people of this land and that they continue to be a vibrant community.
We acknowledge that we benefit from systems that are rooted in capital created and expanded by the free labor of Black people, in the form of chattel slavery and legal and cultural segregation. We stand in solidarity with Black people in fierce advocacy for equality and justice.
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Blanka Zizka
Director
Will Arbery
Playwright
Sarah Gliko
Teresa
Justin Jain
Kevin
Jered McLenigan
Justin
Campbell O’Hare
Emily
Mary Elizabeth Scallen
Gina
Patreshettarlini Adams
Stage Manager
Matt Saunders
Production Designer
Jorge Cousineau
Director Of Photography/Editor
Taj Rauch
Assistant Director of Photography
Christopher Colucci
Sound Designer/Mix Engineer
Joe Samala
Sound Engineer
Vasilija Zivanic
Costume Designer
Morgan Porter
Wardrobe Supervisor
Missy Furth
COVID Officer
Eli Lynn
Fight Consultant
Kellie Mecleary
Producer
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Mary Elizabeth Scallen—who goes by MB—serves as both performer and researcher for ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning.’ In the midst of rehearsal, she penned the following in response to the play’s characters and ideas.
In this beautifully written, compelling work
Playwright Will Arbery acts as
Poet
Investigator
Exorcist
Four young friends shaped by a strict Catholic college reunite after years in the secular world
But things have changed
As they wrestle with demons
Metaphoric and not
Arbery exposes the thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, and fears
On which fanatics and doubters rely
The whip-smart debate
Rivets
Inspires
And horrifies
But Arbery’s most shocking move in the course of the play
A radical act
Surprise
Is to humanize American religious conservatives
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Let’s consider how polarization
Prompts each side to other the other
And stop their own ears
If I, as a leftist, engage with a right-winger’s argument
I fear that I’m
Dignifying haters
Elevating lies
Polluting myself
Or simply wasting time better spent doing any small good
How can I listen when there’s so much to protect?
I foresee
The tabernacle armoring my softest hidden hope
My good
Spattered with the spume of beasts
So heresy—no wonder—to acknowledge and receive
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Arbery’s play features crisp, smart writing
Fiery minds that snap at big ideas
Deep, mercurial characters who listen really listen to what they don’t want to hear
It’s a fugue for five voices, a crush
A thrilling rush of fast water
But for me, the remarkable part
Is the humanness of these conservative Catholics
They question and hope and fight like I do
And though I cannot agree neither can I deny
They are no more ‘other’ than I
They remind me that a true Church and a true Republic
Are made of people people people
Who long for
Welcome
Safety
Relevance
And love
Who seek homes for their bodies and homes for their souls
Don’t we all yearn for a real home
Always?
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Arbery’s HEROES—the brazen opposition—
With searching hearts, hungry minds, and incendiary thoughts
Wander the road with the rest of us
Achingly real
Doing their best before darkness falls
To just come home
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