For Immediate Release
October 3, 2009

Continuing the exceptional 2009-2010 season with the Old Town Manassas holiday tradition, Director Cory Eskridge Okouchi is seeking a diverse, all ages cast for this traditional production.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

Auditions will be held at:
The Cramer Center, www.cramercenter.com,
Sunday, October 11th and Monday, October 12th at 7 PM

Callbacks will be on Thursday, October 15th at The Cramer Center.

Performances are 12/4/2009 through 12/20/2009, Friday and Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 3.

The address is:
9008 Center Street
Manassas, VA

For more information, please contact Mr.Okouchi 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.