For Immediate Release
June 21, 2010

Rob Batarla, Artistic Director, will be directing Vpstart Crow's first production at the new Hylton Performing Arts Center, Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Auditions will be held at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. See address below and/or click the link for map & directions.
Sunday, July 18th - at 7:00 PM
Monday, July 19th - at 7:00 PM
Callbacks (if needed) Tuesday, July 20th - at 7:00 PM

The auditions and performances will be at:
Hylton Performing Arts Center
Gregory Family Theatre
10960 George Mason Circle
Manassas, VA 20110
Map/Directions

Auditioners should be prepared to do a 2 minute classic monologue. Auditioners should know that Hamlet will be done in modern times, keeping the classic language.

Mr. Batarla is seeking performers to fill the following roles:

12 men (aged 20-55)
3 women (aged 15-55)
*Some of the male roles are multiple character roles
Please click here for an audition form.

Things to Remember:

* Please bring with you a headshot and resume.
* Please be prepared to list your conflicts.

Please be prepared to list your conflicts.

Performances are September 17th through the 26th

For more information, please contact Mr. Batarla 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.