"Hébert's characters — profane and stubborn — have an ornery charm— Tree suggests that real families are the people who know you well enough to push you into becoming someone new."
- Los Angeles Times

CHICAGO PREMIERE

By Julie Hébert • Directed by Andrea J. Dymond
April 1 to May 1, 2011
Zacek McVay Theater

In Baton Rouge , Didi, a gender studies professor is shocked to discover a cache of love letters that reveal a family secret. Leo, a divorced chef in Chicago with an ailing mother and a college-age daughter, labors to keep his fraying family together. When their worlds collide, these two people must face their shared roots, and stitch together their family history from the unreliable memories of an old woman. Tree traces the connections between Didi and Leo, despite differences in race, gender and culture---and reminds us that sometimes we have to know where we’ve come from to know who we are.

Cast:
AARON TODD DOUGLAS (Leo)
ELAINE RIVKIN (Didi Marcantel)
LESLIE ANN SHEPPARD (JJ)
CELESTE WILLIAMS (Jessalyn)

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Designers:
JACQUELINE and RICK PENROD (Set Designers)
JUDITH LUNDBERG (Costume Designer)
CHARLIE COOPER (Lighting Designer)
MISHA FIKSEL (Sound Designer)
MICHELLE MEDVIN (Stage Manager)

» Interview with Tree Playwright Julie Hébert