Why Are You Leaving?: A Primary Trust Review

Theater Works Hartford’s production of Primary Trust, a play by Eboni Booth, directed by Jennifer Chang, explores the boundaries of a mind in its strengths and frailties. This story, set in Cranberry, New York (A medium-sized suburb of Rochester), narrows in on the life of Kenneth (Justin Weaks), who, at 38 years old, is exploring the stability of his singular friendship with Bert (Samuel Stricklen). Primary Trust peels back the layers of nuance with subtle nods to real-time issues that plague our world and how life, at the intersection of all that goes on—even in a medium-sized suburb—is impacted by each change in the proverbial tide of the immediate world around them.