What’s this? Nathaniel Arcand a slacker? Nah, not our guy…but he DOES play one in the upcoming radio production The Wimpering Penguin, to be aired December 10 and 11 on CBC Radio’s Sunday Showcase  Program. And the best part?  You don’t even have to live in Canada to tune in. 

Set in working class Edmonton against the backdrop of the now-defunct Klondike celebration, The Whimpering Penguin   is a sardonic story of two losers on a chase for some cash and  their lives.The edgy comedy surrounds the antics of Toby,  (Arcand) and Keith (Murray Utlas) who are working in a car wash with bigger plans of forming a rock band. When Keith’s no-good brother is released from jail looking for the two pounds of weed he left in his sib's care, Toby and Keith (get the pun?) begin to panic since they smoked one pound and traded the other for a hot tub.  

The radio play was written by Pat Langner, who is a playwright and former guitar player and songwriter for the rock band Leslie Spit Treeo.  It was produced in Edmonton by Kathleen Flaherty. 

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A special advance listening party will be held in Edmonton on December 4. But for the rest of us nowhere near that Mecca of the north, we can hear it all at 10 p.m. December 10 via the CBC website: CBC SUNDAY SHOWCASE