For Immediate Release
June 23, 2009

MANASSAS –Vpstart Crow Announces its 2009-2010 Season

2009-2010

Vpstart Crow Productions

Presents

Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Directed by Rob Batarla - Show Page

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Directed by Cory Okouchi - Show Page

Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas, Directed by Julie Cameron - Show Page

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Directed by Bob Smith - Show Page

The Princess and the Pea by (Version TBA), Directed by Clemente Santiago III - Show Page

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.