"A simple and elegantly crafted story of an emotionally damaged man who finds a new job, new friends and a new sense of worth, illustrating how small acts of kindness can change a person's life and enrich an entire community." --Pulitzer Prize Committee "Eboni Booth's portrait of one man's loneliness and the danger of coping mechanisms will restore your faith in theater's elemental storytelling powers." --Observer "[The] most moving new play I've seen this year. Booth joins Samuel D. Hunter as a playwright who has carved out a space onstage for forgotten people in forgotten places, voices that have a lot to say if we would only listen." --TheaterMania "New York City's best new play. [A] buffed-to-gleaming jewel, following the life of a handsome, charming man named Kenneth, who--capsized early in life by a horrifically traumatic event--struggles, mulls, deflects, and cheerfully and not-so-cheerfully interrogates how to progress with his life in the suburb of Cranberry, New York." --Daily Beast "[A] tender, delicately detailed portrait.

Booth again probes the half-dread of working-class Black characters in a one-freeway-exit corner of the Northeast." --New York Times "A quiet gem that you're likely to find yourself thinking about long after it's concluded, Primary Trust proves a deeply humanistic portrait of the sort of existential abyss into which we're all capable of falling." --New York Stage Review "Primary Trust is not a play where a grand revelation is coming toward you. It's more about the climb Kenneth faces as he's slowly becoming reacquainted with the world, turning from an imaginary friendship to real ones." --Vulture.