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Your preschool admission or your life!(Chicago Tribune)
Byline: Michael Kilian
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va._There are parents who would do anything short of murder to get their kid into the best private preschool and otherwise assure themselves of a perfect child with a perfect future.
"Bright Ideas," a new play by Eric Coble making its debut here as one of the highlights of this summer's Contemporary American Theater Festival, asks_and answers_a perhaps logical question:
"Why stop at murder?"
The play, which opens this fall in New York at the MCC stage on 42nd Street, deals with the plight of a suburban couple named Genevra and Joshua. They are faced with the awful horror of having their son attend a second-rate preschool, unless they can somehow get him into the very top such facility in their area, the Bright Ideas school.
They're next in line for a vacancy at Bright Ideas, but inconveniently there is none. Terrified that their offspring may have his entire future ruined as a consequence, they create a vacancy by inviting a woman friend who has a child in Bright Ideas over for dinner and lacing her pesto with organically grown poison.
"It came out of my own experience of having gotten two children into preschool by slightly more honorable means than in the play," said Coble, whose children are now 8 and 6 and beyond all that.
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