Eureka Day is a topical satire set in a woke school in America. An outbreak of mumps has led to calls for a vaccination programme that will prevent the school from being quarantined and shut down entirely. The script, written in 2018, has acquired new layers of meaning since the Covid terror.

Worthy of Wilde: Eureka Day, at the Old Vic, reviewed
Plus: at the Almeida a scene that Chekhov couldn’t have conceived better

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