How prescient is Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day , now rollicking and roiling at 4th Wall Theatre Company. And how present!
As if the play had been torn from the headlines – the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in a confusing and contentious meeting as of two days ago, Thursday, September 18, voted against vaccinating children under the age of four with a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox – it’s amazing that Spector wrote this work pre-Covid in 2018. It’s so now.
At the Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, perhaps the “wokest” place on the planet, five parents and administrators begin the school year with a hazy quote from the 13th-century Sufi mystic Jamal Rumi. Principal Don (Philip Lehl) leads the executive committee wit