QDF Theatre preview

Snippet from Brett Watson's upcoming play from Megaforce on Vimeo.
   One of Montrealer's newest and most underrated traditions is the Quebec Drama Federation Theatre preview. The various theatre troupes do about 5 minutes of their upcoming shows a couple of times a year. I attended an excellent one at the Mainline, perhaps it was the first-ever and got a big time kick out of it. And last night I went to the one at the Rialto and it was pretty cool too. The Rialto is a great space but almost too big. The Mainline was packed and that made for a great atmosphere, no need for mikes, etc. And the host was very acerbic, making fun of people to their face. Last night a couple of those elements were missing but there was still a free beer stub and I got two, so I was happy as were the vagrants at the next table. Seriously.
   The MC Quincy Armorer is a very cool guy, he runs the Black Theatre Workshop but I find him a bit insipid as MC, I felt that I was going to throw up when he told Leni Parker that he thought she's beautiful. If he were any more inoffensive I'd suspect he's angling for a job on CBC radio. The public should attend these things but it seems mainly attended by theatre actors. So a large part of the crowd was actors waiting to go on. That needs to be repaired. So yeah, I'm doing my bit to promote it a bit more.
   So I shot a little illegal video of the event and pop it here for your general perusal and enjoyment. The most eyecatching was probably the Brett Watson thing, which you'll see here but there were other promising ones too.