{"id":143768,"date":"2020-03-25T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=143768"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:23:58","slug":"2020-whiting-awards-will-arbery-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/25\/2020-whiting-awards-will-arbery-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Arbery, Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_143789\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/arbery-pic_victor-llorente-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143789\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/arbery-pic_victor-llorente-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/arbery-pic_victor-llorente-.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/arbery-pic_victor-llorente--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/arbery-pic_victor-llorente--768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-143789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Arbery. Photo: Victor Llorente.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas and Wyoming. His plays include <em>Heroes of the Fourth Turning<\/em> (Playwrights Horizons), <em>Plano<\/em> (Clubbed Thumb), <em>Evanston Salt Costs Climbing<\/em> (New Neighborhood), and <em>Wheelchair<\/em> (3 Hole). He\u2019s a member of New Dramatists and an alum of The Working Farm at <small>SPACE<\/small> on Ryder Farm, P73\u2019s Interstate 73, Colt Coeur, Youngblood, and Clubbed Thumb\u2019s Early Career Writers Group. He\u2019s currently the Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Playwrights Horizons, where he is also under commission. His plays have received additional support from NYTW, The Vineyard, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Cape Cod Theater Project, The New Group, The Bushwick Starr, Alliance\/Kendeda, and Tofte Lake Center. He received his M.F.A. from Northwestern and his B.A. from Kenyon College.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><em>An excerpt from\u00a0<\/em>Heroes of the Fourth Turning<em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JUSTIN<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to say something about the liberal\u2026 The nice young liberal people. And the system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TERESA<\/p>\n<p>Okay what.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JUSTIN<\/p>\n<p>So these nice young liberal people are blinded by a system that distracts them from true moral questions and refocuses their attention onto fashionable and facile questions of identity and choice, which gender do you want to be today?, how much sex can you have today?, how many babies do you want? and how do you want them to look?, which is really all part of a larger ideological system that is rooted in an evil, early-twentieth-century quote-unquote progressive trend towards quote-unquote perfection, eugenics, and crypto-racism, endorsed by Margaret Sanger, an American eugenics system which persists, which wants to eliminate anything unclean or imperfect, including black babies and Down syndrome babies, and create a sterilized world based around state-mandated pleasure and narcissism. These are just facts, look it up y\u2019all. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I can honestly say that, having lived in that world, and being a thirty-eight-year-old nomad, I can guarantee that ninety-nine percent of them are willing to just be led blindly into the cave, hooked up to a heroin drip of self-satisfied digital activism and committing vile acts of self-gratification because they\u2019re told that it\u2019s important to \u201cexperience\u201d life, when actually they\u2019re numbing themselves to the possibility of real sacrifice or any chance of an ethical life, rooted in the grit and toil of suffering in the name of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>And: there are more of them. We lost the popular vote, by a lot. Despite the indulgences afforded us by our wealthy backers and our electoral loopholes, we lack a unified youth movement. And they have that. And they\u2019re mobilizing. In many ways, they are in power. And they\u2019re trying to wipe us out. They\u2019re wishing for our death. And the only way to survive is to block them out, to focus on the Lord. Try to outlive them. Bake bread, make wine, work the earth, shelter wanderers, and survive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TERESA<\/p>\n<p>You talk like they\u2019re In Power. But they\u2019re not in power. We are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JUSTIN<\/p>\n<p>Maybe for now\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TERESA<\/p>\n<p>No, and there are more of us, too. There are. We just aren\u2019t as loud, and we don\u2019t have control of the media. And we need to come together to fight, not to bake bread. It\u2019s honestly baffling to me that someone as strong as you would already be giving up the fight when it\u2019s barely begun\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KEVIN<\/p>\n<p>Teresa Teresa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TERESA<\/p>\n<p>What.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KEVIN<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t feel like a hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TERESA<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KEVIN<\/p>\n<p>But the thing<br \/>\nI was born in 1989<br \/>\nI\u2019m supposed to be a hero<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TERESA<\/p>\n<p>Well it\u2019s an archetype. Not everyone is a hero. It\u2019s just an archetype\u2014a collective thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KEVIN<\/p>\n<p>But I could be a hero. If I learned how to shoot a gun\u2026 I was always afraid of holding one cuz I thought I\u2019d just stare into the barrel and pull the trigger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">EMILY<\/p>\n<p>Kevin\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KEVIN<\/p>\n<p>Haha sorry, but if there\u2019s a war coming, then uh I can be part of the heroes! I\u2019ll definitely die I\u2019ll definitely die. But I\u2019ll die with the heroes. You guys, Teresa is saying we\u2019re heroes! Let\u2019s be heroes! Come on let\u2019s be heroes. And hahaha okay here\u2019s my thing: if there\u2019s a war coming then why is Catholicism all about sex, seriously why is Catholicism <small>OBSESSED<\/small> with telling me not to have sex because all that led to is that I have an addiction to the internet and it\u2019s like I\u2019m combing through it like a unholy un-Bible that keeps dissolving toxins into my eyes and all I ever think about is what to do with this goddamn thing between my legs\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JUSTIN<\/p>\n<p>Kevin, can you stop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KEVIN<\/p>\n<p>Why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JUSTIN<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re scaring everyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KEVIN<\/p>\n<p>Okay I didn\u2019t mean to scare everyone, I thought I was riffing\u2014Was that not funny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an excerpt from \u2018Heroes of the Fourth Turning,\u2019 by Will Arbery, winner of a 2020 Whiting Award for 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