Arlington

Garry Michael White’s Arlington is presented in five acts: “Where Jack Is”, “LSMFT”, “The Widow’s Son”, “Tree and Deerhawk”, and “Officer Frank Turkey, M.D.” Each story takes place in the United States between 1917 and 2008, and examines the palpable evidence of the United State’s constant, insatiable thirst for war. Each act, a separate entity, chronicles World War I, The Second World War, the Korean War, the conflict in Viet Nam, and finally, the war in the souls of Americans as a result of 9/11. In this play, no battlefield blood is spilled; no foreign soil is touched. In the end, Arlington is a moving, occasionally humorous play about the inevitable reaches of war, and the ways in which we conquer ourselves. Armando Molina directs.