AUDITION NOTICE

Vpstart Crow Productions

Presents

Tartuffe by Moliere, translated by Richard Wilbur

Produced by Julie Cameron
Directed by Rob Batarla

WHEN: May 6th and May 7th at 7pm
WHERE: Cramer Center – 9007 Center Street, Manassas, VA
WHO: 6 men (ages 18-60) and 4 women (ages 18-60) –Seeking a Diverse Cast

The show will be set in the 1980s
Prepare for cold reading from the script; classical monologues welcomed
Performances are July 10-26, 2009

Gender/Age	Character name	Relation	Role type
M (40-60)	Orgon	The Master of the House	Leading
F (25-40)	Elmire	Orgon's 2nd wife	Leading
M (25-60)	Tartuffe	The Hypocrite	Leading
F (20-60)	Dorine	Mariane's lady's-maid	Leading
M (18-25)	Damis	Orgon's son	Supporting
F (18-25)	Mariane	Orgon's daughter	Supporting
M (30-50)	Cleante	Elmire's brother	Supporting
F (60-80)	Madame Pernelle	Orgon's mother	Minor
M (20-30)	Valere	Mariane's suitor	Minor
M (any)	(a)	Mme Pernelle's servant	Walk On
M (any)	(a)	The Bailiff	Walk On
M (any)	(a)	The Officer	Walk On

(a) Note that Mme Pernelle’s servant, the Bailiff and the Officer will be played by the same person.

Click here for an audition form.

For more information, please contact Mr.Batarla at info@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.