For Immediate Release
November 3, 2008

MANASSAS –Vpstart Crow Announces Auditions for Goldsmith's, She Stoops to Conquer.

This first show of 2009 will be directed by Bob Smith.

Veteran Director, Bob Smith, helm's his fifth Vpstart Crow production. His previous productions with Vpstart Crow are Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and this season's children's show, Red vs the Wolf and Shakespeare's Clowns. Auditionees should come with a prepared monologue Details on casting needs are available on the season page for She Stoops to Conquer.

9008 Center Street
Manassas, VA

For more information, please contact Mr.Smith at artistic@vpstartcrow.com or (800) 660-8580, or visit www.vpstartcrow.com.

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.