Chris Mejaki from Whistling Pine (A Dark Comedy) | Photo from the show page

Presented by Centre for Indigenous Theatre

While Whistling Pine (A Dark Comedy) does have plenty of humour, I don’t think the parenthetical descriptor is quite accurate. Chris Mejaki’s solo show is both raw and poetic, featuring a young Indigenous man named CJ in rural Ontario whose self-serving behaviour is also self-destructive. A drug dealer and user, he flounders abjectly until he eventually learns to recognize the wisdom his protective ancestors are trying to impart. Continue Reading