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We are proud to announce the Maine Premiere of Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day. The show will open at the Camden Opera House on October 10 and run through October 19.

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?

The play was a “Critic’s Pick!” in the New York Times, which wrote: “Jonathan Spector’s lively portrait of a debate over mandatory vaccinations is the perfect play for our age of disagreement. …characters who had seemed so easy to ridicule as stereotypes acquire a substance and specificity that inhibit both derision and facile categorization. It becomes possible to identify with each of these people… no matter what your own feelings about vaccination are. This means that EUREKA DAY… is not only one of the funniest plays to open this year, it is one of the saddest.”

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