Primary Trust by Eboni Booth will play its last week of a nearly monthlong run at Portland Center Stage. The title refers to a bank, one of the main settings, but also the main question of the show: Can we depend on one another?

The heartwarming but not saccharine story unfolds at first like a storybook, but the story is anything but simple. The carefully curated production guides the audience on the path to both the truth about the characters and what it truly means to trust each other.

Like many plays before it, Primary Trust is about a small town and community. It tells the story of Kenneth (Larry Owens), a haunted man who longs so deeply for true friendship, but finds it hard to break out of a cycle of happy hours and rejecting social invitations. When he loses his job, he’s force

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