AATC celebrates Chinese New Year

A S I A N A M E R I C A N T H E A T E R C O M P A N Y

CHINESE NEW YEAR

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS of 12-minute plays

Gong Xi Fa Cai


In celebration of the Chinese New Year, the Asian American Theater Company is calling for script submission of new 12-minute plays written in the next twelve days. Submission deadline is January 27th. Announcement of plays for public presentation/staged readings is on February 5th, the start of the Year of the Dragon. Presentations will be held on February 11th and 12th.

Cut your hair, clean your house, pay your debts, wear new clothes, eat sumptuous food, set off your firecrackers, and WRITE your 12-minute Chinese New Year plays!

What does Chinese New Year mean to you? Write a 12-minute play about it. It means nothing? Then write a 12-minute play about that. What's your animal sign? Tell an old, or new, or revamped version of your animal sign story. Write it in 12 days. Before the dragon gets here.

The Chinese lunar calendar is the longest chronological record in history, dating from 2637 B.C. when the first cycle of the zodiac was introduced. One complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five simple cycles of 12 years each. The 78th cycle started on February 1984, and will end on February 2044. Twelve animals were assigned to each of the 12 years when, according to legend, the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed from Earth. Only twelve animals came to bid him farewell. As a reward he named a year after each one in the order that it arrived. First came the Rat, then the Ox, the Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Boar. Thus, we have the twelve animal signs of today. Thus, AATC is giving you twelve days to write your 12-minute plays!

Wait! What about the cat or is it the hare?!? Or the carabao?!?
Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Submission Deadline: January 27th; your typed written, double spaced scripts should be sent to Asian American Theater Company, 1840 Sutter Street, Suite 207, San Francisco, CA 94115

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