Year Zero
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Vuthy Vichea is sixteen years old, Cambodian American. He loves hip hop and Dungeons and Dragons. He has thick-ass glasses. He is a weird kid in a place where weirdness can be fatal: Long Beach, California. And since his best friend moved and his mother died, the only person he can talk to is a human skull he keeps hidden in a cookie jar.
Year Zero is a comedic drama about young Cambodian Americans — about reincarnation, reinvention, and ultimately, redemption.
Cast Requirements
3 men
1 woman
Honors
Grand Prize winner of the Chicago Dramatists’ Many Voices Project 2008.
Finalist for the 2009 O’Neill Theater Conference.
Production and Development History
Production: Second Stage Theatre (May 2010); Victory Gardens Theater (September 2009).
Readings: Chicago Dramatists, Victory Gardens Theater.