Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA
 Tom Jacobson, Artistic Director
Patty Cornell, Managing Director
Danny Fresh, Producing Director 
and
The Los Angeles Public Library Literature/Fiction Department
present
a First Look Staged Reading
 
TREE
By Julie Hebert
Directed by Laurie Woolery 
 
A trove of letters left by her White Southern father sends Didi Marcantel in search of a Black half brother she never knew. 

Will they part as angry strangers or invent a common language that binds them to a shared future?
 
DATE: Monday, December 15, 2008
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium
630 West Fifth Street, Downtown Los Angeles
PARKING: Closest garage is 524 South Flower Street
(approximately $8 after 4:00 p.m.)
 
For more parking information visit www.lapl.org

Free admission!
 
No reservations required. First come, first served.
 
ADA accommodation available upon request.
 
Presented with the support of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and

the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
 
Special thanks to Laura Jane Salvato 
Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA's FIRST LOOK program features staged readings of plays

 under consideration for production by this award-winning company. 
 
A talk-back will follow the presentation.