Grand Theatre
iPhoto caption: Durae McFarlane in 'Primary Trust.' Photo by Dahlia Katz.
REVIEW: Primary Trust harnesses anxiety for good at London’s Grand Theatre
Eboni Booth's Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust invites its audience to visualize hopeful futures rather than disasters. This tender production, directed by Cherissa Richards, proposes that imagining such a future is the first step to achieving it.
iPhoto caption: Peter N. Bailey and Durae McFarlane in 'Primary Trust.' Photo by Dahlia Katz.
How the Grand Theatre’s Primary Trust makes a tiki bar feel like home
Let’s get one thing straight: Eboni Booth's Pulitzer-winning Primary Trust isn’t about working in bars. But it honours bars as spaces we return to — where we go to feel safe.
Announcing the ON Criticism: 2025/26 Theatre Critics Lab cohort
Caelan Beard (Brampton), Alexandrea Marsh (London), Phillip Dwight Morgan (Toronto), Izzy Siebert (London), Joe Szekeres (Oshawa), and Hunter Weaymouth (Hamilton) will work with Intermission senior editor Liam Donovan and editorial director Karen Fricker in this six-month-long training and professional development program.
iPhoto caption: Found Fest 2021. Photo by Mat Simpson.
Although Walker conceived and workshopped This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear just prior to COVID-19 lockdown, it’s perhaps best understood and appreciated as a pandemic project. Its festival appearances began in 2021, at which time the “I’m alone in the world”-ness of it all must have felt cathartic, and reciting lines together in person would have been nothing short of a spiritual experience.