For Immediate Release
March 2, 2008

MANASSAS –Vpstart Crow Announces Auditions for the First Preview Production of its 15th season.

Having previously directed Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and The Merchant of Venice for Vpstart Crow, veteran director, Bob Smith, returns with a pair of One-Acts for children and youth, Red vs the Wolf and Shakespeare's Clowns.

Shakespeare's Clowns requires four performers, two male and two female, who will perform a variety of Shakespearean roles. All four of these performers will also appear in -

Red vs the Wolf. This production requires ten performers. While all of the roles may be played by adults, Mr. Smith is also open to casting children in four, or five of the roles.

Auditions will be held in Manassas at Sew Cool Embroidery on Saturday and Sunday, March 8 and 9 at 2:00 through 5:00 PM. Callbacks, if needed, will be held on Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00 PM.

The address is:

7032 A Infantry Ridge Rd.
Manassas, VA 20109.
Those mapquesting should use the building number, 7050.

Directions from westbound 66 are:

Take exit 47B Rt 234 Manassas
Make a right at the first stop light onto Battleview Parkway (where Cracker Barrel is).
Stay in right lane and turn right onto first actual street, Infantry Ridge Road.
Make first right onto Gaskins Way and an immediate left into the parking lot between two one story brick buildings.
SewCool Emboridery is in the front building with a side entrance that faces the second building.

ABOUT VPSTART CROW PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Founded in 1994, Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc. (pronounced “upstart”) is a non-Equity and non-profit professional theatre company dedicated to performing the works of William Shakespeare and other theatre classics. Vpstart Crow’s mission is to produce live theatre as a vital, accessible and exciting part of community life. Employing a resident company of local professional actors and artists of the highest caliber, Vpstart Crow is dedicated to breaking down the barriers between audience and actors in a performance style that is thought-provoking and altogether vpstartling.

The term “vpstart crow” comes from one of Shakespeare’s rival English playwrights, Robert Greene. In his 1592 pamphlet, Groats-Worth Of Wit Bought With A Million Of Repentance, Greene criticizes Shakespeare: “… for there is an vpstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers hart wrapt in a players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum (“Johnny-do-it-all” or “Jack-of-all-trades”), is in his owne conceit the onely ‘Shake-scene’ in a countrey.” In fact, Vpstart Crow spells its name with a “v” rather than a “u” in reference to the way the English language was written in Shakespeare’s day.