Quebec Drama Federation Hosts Summer 2014 Calendar Launch Today

Join the Quebec Drama Federation in celebrating the long, long, LONG awaited summer with our Summer Calendar Launch - showcasing some of the hottest shows to hit our fair city this season! For the first time ever, the launch will be at Theatre Ste Catherine - one of the city's leading improv theatres, home of the Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, and Montreal foremost independent bilingual theatre.

Le Nouveau International, Theatre Ste Catherine's resident company, will be hosting this time around. Mark Louch and Alain Mercieca, founding members of le Nouveau and owners and operators of Theatre Ste-Catherine will lead the charge with help from company members Sandi Armstrong, Katie Leggitt, and Stephan Peterson. If you saw their most recent production of Jesus Christ Super Band, you know you are in for a ridiculously, hilariously great time!

QDF is proud to announce that audiences will be treated to performances from the following 18 productions:

• Brighella - Collective Productions (a twisted version of Commedia Dell'Arte)
• Chamber Music - We Are One
• David - Le Théâtre, ma muse
• Doctor Faustus - Chocolate Moose Theatre Company
• Ideal-eyes-me - Elemental Spirit Productions
• IN MEMORIAM: The Wake of Cheddar Fandango - Sermo Scomber Theatre (from the creator of the award-winning 2013 Fringe hit Talk, Mackerel)
• Julius Caesar- Montreal Shakespeare Theatre Company
• Glory Dazed - The Waterworks Company
• Le Divan - Les Productions Lounge
• LOTUS - Hopegrown Productions (back from a 6-city tour of the acclaimed Around Miss Julie)
• Mistakes Were Made - Brave New Productions STRAPLESS - STRAPLESS COMEDY
• My BIG Gay Italian Wedding - Village Scene Productions
• Ocean Opera - Ah Lala Productions
• Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rock Star Rabbi - The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre Strapless - Strapless Comedy (featured on the QDF Summer Calendar Cover)
• The Quitter - FRINGE Festival UNRETWEETABLE - Middle Class Comedy
• Whose F*** Is It Anyway? - Plaid Thursday Productions

QDF Summer 2014 Calendar Launch is set for the Theatre Ste-Catherine, 264 Ste-Catherine Street East tonight, June 10th at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; show begins at 7:00 p.m. Complimentary snacks and McAuslan beer will be served in the TSC lobby at intermission and after the show. For more information, call 514.284.3939 or visit theatresaintecatherine.com.