Middlebury Acting Company Presents:

Eureka Day

by Jonathan Spector

Directed by Rebecca Strum

May 1–3 & May 8–10 in the Anderson Studio

Presented by Middlebury Acting Company, Town Hall Theater's professional resident theater company, delivering playful, intimate and conversation sparking productions since 2001.

A sharp, funny, and all-too-familiar comedy about the chaos of doing the right thing when no one can agree on what that is.

The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. In weekly meetings Eureka Day’s five board members develop and update policy to preserve this culture of inclusivity, reaching decisions only by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?

“Eureka Day is so brilliantly yoked to the current American moment- its flighty politics, its deadly folly-that it makes you want to jump out of your skin…The plays most astonishingly accurate moment comes when the board convenes a livestream…I’m still trying to figure out how hard is appropriate for a critic to laugh at the theater; this night, I made myself hoarse.” – The New Yorker