Primary Trust - Softcover

Booth, Eboni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1636702392 ISBN 13: 9781636702391

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S., 2025

Synopsis

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Primary Trust is an arresting character study of an isolated man finding the courage to expand his world and begin again.

38-year-old Kenneth lives a comfortable life of routine in suburban New York: after days spent working at a used bookstore, he whiles away his evenings knocking back mai tais with his best friend Burt at the local tiki bar. But when the long-time bookstore owner decides to close up shop for good, Kenneth panics at the prospect of finding a new job—a process that unearths long-suppressed fears. When Kenneth makes a new friend named Corrina, and she begins to ask questions Kenneth isn’t prepared to answer: how many mai tais is too many mai tais? And who—or what—is Burt? Primary Trust is a deeply affecting play about the careful structures we build to contain oceans of feeling and what happens when those structures begin to crumble.

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About the Author

Eboni Booth is a writer and actor from New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Critics Circle Award) and Paris (Atlantic Theater).

For television, she has written for Hulu's We Were the Lucky Ones and HBO Max's Julia.

She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and the recipient of a Dramatists Guild Horton Foote Award, a Steinberg Playwright Award, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, and a John Gassner Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636702392
• ISBN 13: 9781636702391
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96