AATC presents festival of 12-minute plays for New Years

San Francisco-In celebration of the Lunar New Year, the Asian American Theater Company presents a reading of 12-minute plays. The reading will be held Saturday, February 12, 2000, 8:00 p.m., at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, 1840 Sutter Street, between Webster and Buchanan in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco.

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.

AATC called for play submission for the Lunar New Year, asking writers to write 12-minute plays in twelve days. 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.

And plays got here in time for the Year of the Dragon. Come join us and hear about the hung bao, the dragon and the snake, paying your debts, firecrackers...Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Asian American Theater Company was founded in 1973 as a playwrights' workshop sponsored by the American Conservatory Theater. The company is dedicated to the production of New American plays by dramatists of Asian Pacific Islander descent. Throughout its history, AATC has served as a home for numerous Asian Pacific Islander American playwrights, directors, actors and designers, including Frank Chin, Margaret Cho, Dennis Dun, David Henry Hwang, Philip Kan Gotanda, Amy Hill, Momoko Iko, R.A. Shiomi, Wakako Yamauchi and Judi Nihei. After more than a quarter of a century of pioneering Asian American theater arts, AATC is poised to chart new directions for Asian Pacific Islander American theater arts into the new millenniun.

The reading is free but a small donation to AATC would be appreciated.

Asian American Theater Company
1840 Sutter Street, Suite 207 San Francisco, CA 94115
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