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‘Eureka Day’ Playwright Jonathan Spector Talks Vaccines, Getting Canceled By Trump And A Possible Film Adaptation Of His Newly Controversial Comedy – Deadline Q&A
Deadline Q&A with 'Eureka Day' playwright Jonathan Spector.
The Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway production, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, was a twice-extended hit with critics and audiences last fall, earning raves for its very funny look at the chaos and infighting that erupts at the very progressive (and fictional) Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, when a mumps outbreak forces the board of directors to issue a vaccine mandate. There was a lot of agita about that, and so it was sort of in the air a little bit but more specifically it was having the experience a couple of times of talking to somebody who was a friend or an acquaintance, somebody who was like really smart, at least as well educated as me, and more importantly with whom I shared pretty much all the same politics and values and then discovering they don’t vaccinate their kids. You know, in that live stream scene in the play there’s this comment that I had kind of gone back and forth about whether I should cut it because I was like maybe it’s just too extreme, but it’s where somebody says something about how all these vaccines are made from the cells of dead fetuses, and then Robert Kennedy said that in a press conference two weeks ago.
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