For Immediate Release
December 21, 2009

Director, Julie Cameron, is seeking performers for our Winter production of Charley's Aunt.

Auditions will be held at the Cramer Center.
Tues Dec 29th 7-9pm
Sun Jan 3rd 12-2pm
Callbacks Mon Jan 4th 7-9pm

Please prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary, comedic monologue. Monologues should not be prepared in a British accent, but you may be asked to read in one. However, ability to do the accent is not required to audition. Please bring a headshot and resume.

She is seeking performers to fill the following roles:

Stephen Spettigue: 40-60 years old, Amy and Kitty's guardian.

Sir Frances Chesney: 40-60 years old, Jack's father.

Jack Chesney: Early 20's, student at Oxford.

Charley Wykeham: Early 20's student at Oxford.

Lord Fancourt Babberley: Early 20's student at Oxford. Disguises himself as Charley's Aunt.

Brassett: 30-70 years old, Jack's butler.

Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez: Mid 40's, Charley's Aunt.

Amy Spettigue: Early 20's, Charley's love interest.

Kitty Verdun: Early 20's, Jack's love interest.

Ela Delahay: Early 20's, Donna Lucia's ward.

First read-thru is Thursday, Jan 7th, 7-10pm.

Rehearsals will be Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons.
Performances are weekends March 5th-21st.
Please be prepared to list your conflicts.

The performances will be at:
The Cramer Center
9008 Center Street
Manassas, VA

For more information, please contact Ms Cameron at julie.cameron@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.