Tree

The San Francisco Playhouse
450 Post Street San Francisco

Hidden roots are exposed in Tree, Julie Hébert's lyrical and powerful play receiving its regional premiere at San Francisco Playhouse. In this PEN Award-winning drama, a Southern white woman turns up at the home of an African-American man in Chicago, claiming to be his half-sister. Together this unlikely pair -- one a Gender Studies professor, the other a chef -- must recover a shared past hidden among the gnarled memories of a demented old woman. Melding realism with poetry, Tree not only captures modern-day realities of race, but explores age-old truths on what it means to be family. Jon Tracy directs this funny, sometimes painful, always honest play from one of Hollywood's most respected writers (ER, Third Watch, The Good Wife, Boss).