Jonathan Spector’s 2018 play Eureka Day opens at a board meeting of a private elementary school in Berkeley, California. The atmosphere is steeped in political correctness, ostensibly in the service of total inclusivity and unquestioned tolerance of differing views. It projects the image of a community determined to create a safe haven from the many forms of discrimination that shape both American society and our broader social landscape. Yet beneath this carefully maintained veneer of openness lies a web of unacknowledged intolerance. When a mumps outbreak strikes the school, these tensions quickly rise to the surface. What unfolds is an unsettlingly familiar conflict. In this sharp comedy, written just before the COVID-19 pandemic, Spector crafts a biting satire of contemporary social divisions, portraying a community struggling, and often failing, to preserve its own cohesion.