Jason C. McLean

It's the way business is done, unfortunately

For months now, the artists of Café Cleopatre and the rest of the Save the Main coalition have been fighting the good fight against the Angus Development Corporation and the Tremblay administration’s attempts to evict them in favor of a skyscraper office tower in the center of the Quartier des Spectacles.  I’ve supported the coalition from the get-go and now have a chance to help out with my acting and writing.

Following on the heels of Lapdance for Prince Charles, a comic appeal to the Prince, a noted heritage buff, on his recent visit to Montreal, comes Demolition in a Box.  This new video that will hopefully go viral (like the last one did) is a mock infomercial promoting a product that is essentially what Angus and the city want to do to the lower Main.

I play the pitchman in the English version (below) alongside Ėmilie Laliberté of STELLA, the sex workers’ rights organization who plays the prospective developper.  In the French version which premiered last Friday at Club Sin in Café Cleo, the roles are reversed.

Enjoy and please spread:

French version is here