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Primary Trust
Co-Production with Crow's Theatre
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Kenneth loves nothing more in the world than mai tais, his job, and his best friend Bert – but one day, everything changes.
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Thirty-something Cranberry Lake local Kenneth finds himself adrift after unexpectedly losing his long-time job at a bookstore. Stuck in self-doubt, he drowns his worries in cheap mai tais and quality time with his best friend, Bert. But when a kind waitress named Corrina mentions a job lead, Kenneth seizes the chance for a fresh start. Join us for a happy hour (and a half) filled with love, loss, and self-discovery as Kenneth navigates the ups and downs of starting over.
This profound and deeply human play made its world premiere Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre in 2023. Critics have praised it as 'genuinely touching' and a 'thoughtful exploration of personal growth.' In 2024, American playwright Eboni Booth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Primary Trust, cementing its place as a landmark addition to contemporary theatre.
"This is my favourite play that I read this year! And now I am so excited to get to share it with London audiences. Full of magic realism, humour, and heart, Primary Trust lets you walk in the shoes of someone else in a way that unlocks the world a little differently."
- Rachel Peake, Artistic Director of the Grand Theatre
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AFTERWORDS
On select Wednesday evenings, immediately after the performance, join host Breanne Ritchie in the theatre's lounge for a brief guided discussion with guest artists, creative team members, and Grand staff members.
Tea Talks
Join us for creative conversations pre-show with host Rachel Peake and special guests connected to the show. Tea Talks begin at 12:00pm before the Wednesday 1:00pm matinée.
Black Celebration Night
In partnership with London AfroCentric Arts Association (LACA) and London Black Heritage Council (LBHC), join us for a reception and artist talk after the show!
Performance with ASL Interpretation
Audience Advisory
Mature language and themes; simulated smoking; depiction of heavy alcohol consumption; descriptions of childhood trauma.
The Cast
For the Grand Theatre: Fences.
Theatre Credits (Selected): A World Without Shadows, The Wilberforce Hotel, Jumbo, The Real McCoy (The Blyth Festival); Other Side of the Game (Cahoots Theatre Co. and Obsidian Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird, An Ideal Husband, Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well (Stratford Festival); Here Are the Fragments (The Theatre Centre); Romeo and Juliet, Sweat, Fairview (Canadian Stage Company); A Few Good Men (Drayton Entertainment). Voice and Dialect Coaching: Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage Company, Nightwood Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, Crow's Theatre, National Theatre School of Canada, Canadian Film Centre, and Sheridan College.
Other: Graduate of the Patsy Rodenburg Associate Programme. Award-winning playwright, with his first play Tyson's Song, winning a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play in the Independent Theatre Division in 2024.
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Hooves Belonged to the Deer (Tarragon); Armadillos, Among Men, Scratch (Factory); Betrayal (Soulpepper); Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave (NAC); Warhorse (Mirvish); Fernando Krapp, Helen Lawrence, The Overcoat, Macbeth (Canadian Stage).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): GenV (Amazon); Law and Order (City); Accused (Fox); Winning Season (Paramount); The Expanse, The Strain (FX); Heartland, The Detectives (CBC).
For the Grand Theatre: Waitress, Cabaret.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (The Royal Alexandra Theatre/Mirvish, Crow’s Theatre); One Man, Two Guvnors (Shaw Festival); The Play That Goes Wrong (Charlottetown Festival); ONCE (Citadel Theatre); American Idiot (West End).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Star Trek (Paramount), Take Note (NBC), Frankie Drake Mysteries (CBC).
Other: Lawrence is overjoyed to be returning to the Grand Theatre. Originally from the UK, Lawrence has been working and exploring as an actor in Canada for the past eight years.
Web: @lawrencelibor
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Dishwashers (Red One Theatre); Outside (Roseneath Theatre); The Walk-Up (Soulpepper); The Flick (Outside the March & Crow's Theatre).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): The Miniature Wife (Peacock), Murderbot (Apple TV), Pretty Hard Cases (CBC).
Other: Graduate of the Soulpepper Academy.
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Something Rotten!, A Wrinkle in Time, Grand Magic, Little Women, Every Little Nookie (Stratford Festival); Bang Bang (Kat Sandler); Prince Hamlet (Ravi Jain); LULU V.7 //aspects of a femme fatale (ted witzel).
Film and TV Credits: The Last of Us (HBO); What We Do in the Shadows (FX); Slo Pitch (Shaftesbury/Boss & Co); American Gods (Fremantle).
Other: Khadijah co-wrote and starred in her first short film, P!GS, in 2018 and followed it up with her second short, DEFUND, which premiered at TIFF in 2021.
Creative Team
For the Grand Theatre: Fall on Your Knees, The Power of Harriet T.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Lightning Thief (Manitoba Theatre for Young People); Serving Elizabeth (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Stag & Doe (Thousand Island Playhouse); Shedding a Skin (Nightwood Theatre); Controlled Damage (NAC/Neptune Theatre); Rapunzel: A Merry (Hairy); Holiday Panto (Capitol Theatre); Deadline (NTS); Sleuth (Vertigo Theatre); Middletown (Dalhousie U); Julius Caesar, Harlem Duet (Bard on the Beach); Trouble in Mind (Royal MTC/Citadel Theatre); Red Velvet (Crow’s Theatre); Meet Me at Dawn (Theatre by the River).
Other: Cherissa’s production of Red Velvet received six Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominations, winning Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production in the General Theatre category in 2023. She is a Crow’s Theatre RBC Rising Star Emerging Director recipient-‘21, Why Not This Gen Directing Fellow-‘21, diploma from National Theatre School.
Upcoming: The Last Wife (Royal MTC).
For the Grand Theatre: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), A Christmas Carol, MixTape.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Welkin (Soulpepper); As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Napoli Milionaria!, Tartuffe, School for Scandal, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Othello (Stratford Festival); Great Comet, Uncle Vanya, Wedding Party, Seagull (Crow’s Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Public Enemy (Canadian Stage); One Man, Two Guvnors, Cyrano (Shaw Festival).
Other: Five Dora Awards for set design, Virginia Cooper Award for costume design. ADC 659.
For the Grand Theatre: Fences, Home for the Holidays.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Slave Play, Topdog Underdog, Fairview, Choir Boy, New Monuments (Canadian Stage); Little Shop of Horrors, Controlled Damage, The Bridge (Neptune Theatre); Treemonisha (Volcano Theatre); Of the Sea (Tapestry Opera/Obsidian Theatre); Calpurnia, The Mountaintop (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Da Kink in My Hair, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Brothers Size (Soulpepper Theatre); Death and the King’s Horseman (Stratford Festival); Harlem Duet (Bard on the Beach); The Doctor’s Dilemma, Trouble in Mind, Victory, 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt (Shaw Festival).
Web: rachelforbesdesign.com
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): As You Like It (Stratford Festival); Rosmersholm, Fifteen Dogs, Wrights, Octet, Rogers V. Rogers (Crow's Theatre); Old Times (Soulpepper); Interior Design (Tarragon).
For the Grand Theatre: MixTape, Boy in the Moon, Kim's Convenience.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Rogers v. Rogers (Crow's Theatre), Moonlight Schooner (Canadian Stage), Fulfillment Centre (Coal Mine Theatre).
Web: thomasryderpayne.bandcamp.com, www.xeno-canto.org/contributor/NWXCLJYBDK?pg=2
For the Grand Theatre: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Oil and Water.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Six The Musical; Matilda the Musical (Mirvish Productions); After the Rain (Tarragon Theatre/Musical Stage Company); Choir Boy (Canadian Stage); The Flying Dutchman (Canadian Opera Company); I Forgive You (Artistic Fraud/National Arts Centre).
Film and TV Credits: 2015 Pan American Games Closing Ceremony.
Other: Graduate of McGill University and the National Theatre School of Canada.
For the Grand Theatre: As You Like It.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Apprentice Stage Manager: The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Stratford Festival); Angels in America Parts 1 & 2 (That Theatre Company & Buddies in Bad Time); Post Democracy (Tarragon Theatre). Stage Manager: Fly Me to the Moon (Shillelagh Theatre); Othello (Phoenix Theatre). Director: Genieology (Alumnae Theatre New Ideas Festival); Death by Horoscope (SATCo).
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Waitress (Arts Club); 9 to 5, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mary’s Wedding (Thousand Island Playhouse); Chelsea Hotel (Firehall); Cabaret (Ovation).
Other: Graduate of the BFA in Theatre Production and Design at UBC.
