HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING
It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young college alumni gather at a backyard after-party. They've returned to celebrate their mentor, Gina, newly inducted as president of a small Catholic college. But as spiritual chaos descends, the celebrations unravel to reveal the divisions fracturing their beliefs, their country, and themselves.
At a time when tribal lines between 'us' and 'them' are fiercely drawn, Will Arbery's haunting play, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, offers grace, insight, and understanding—and a timely reminder of theatre's power to provoke, stimulate and confront.
Writer // Will Arbery
Producer // Jeremy Waters for Outhouse Theatre Co.
Director // Craig Baldwin
Assistant Director // Hayden Tonazzi
Set & Costume Designer // Soham Apte
Lighting Designer // Lucia Haddad
Stage Manager // Matthew Giles
Vocal Coach // Linda Nicholls-Gidley
Cast // Micaela Ellis, Madeleine Jones, Eddie Orton, Kate Raison, Jeremy Waters
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ★★★★.5
“The best written, best directed, and best acted new play I’ve seen in some time.”
LIMELIGHT ★★★★.5
“The effect was one of creeping, destabilising awe, culminating…in a shattering final scene which left me shaken and close to tears. And I’m still - after all that talk, all that philosophical and theological threshing out that we had witnessed - in the looming of how to integrate this play into my feelings and thoughts.”
“A dialectical tour de force…visceral & dizzyingly cerebral.”
SUZY GOES SEE
“I found it so thrilling to watch my enemies argue.”
“Entrancing drama. The tension is unabating and marvelously delicious.
STAGE WHISPERS
“An exceptional production of an important modern play. Not to be missed.”
