Trust is a gripping and comic play about children sacrificed to adult convictions. A teenaged boy in north Belfast becomes the battleground for his parents’ clashing dreams and loyalties. In a world where schoolyard brawls and arms deals are shockingly intertwined, family life is poisoned by paramilitary politics. Trust breaks the mold of playwriting about the Irish troubles, daring to be as funny as it is chilling.

Reviews of Trust: 

“Under Erica Schmidt’s tense, resourceful direction, seven strong actors tear into their juicy and explosive material with evident glee.”
–Time Out

“It’s Mr. Coster’s Geordie, though, whose command of every scene he sits in makes the biggest noise. He couples a prowling menace with hapless tenderness – it is in him alone that we see how vulnerable trust makes a king.”
–The New York Sun

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