The Silicone Diaries (2010)
Produced by
Playwright: Nina Arsenault
Director: Brendan Healy
Venue
The Alexander Street Chamber Theatre
Run
November 25th, 2010 – December 11th, 2010
Synopsis
In her solo show, The Silicone Diaries, the transsexual Arsenault shares the story of her epic, often dangerous pursuit of beauty. She talks about how, when she was a five-year-old boy named Rodney, growing up in a trailer park in Beamsville, Ontario, she went to Zellers with her mom and encountered the most beautiful woman she had ever seen: a mannequin. As an adult, Arsenault transformed herself into a woman whose appearance is every bit as stylized as a mannequin’s—although, unlike a mannequin, Arsenault is voluptuous, a 36D-26-40 bombshell. In The Silicone Diaries, Arsenault’s goal is not to pass as a cisgender—female-born—woman, but to sculpt herself, with her Mexican surgeon’s help, into a state of idealized femininity, to carve her will into her flesh. (straight.com, 2012).
Cast
| Nina Arsenault | Performer |
Creative Team
| Nina Arsenault | Playwright |
| Brendan Healy | Director |
| Judith Rudakoff | Dramaturge |
| Trevor Schwellnus | Production Designer |
| Michelle Ramsay | Associate Lighting Designer |
| Michael Laird | Associate Sound Designer |
| R.Kelly Clipperton | Video Designer |
Production
| Sandy Plunkett | Stage Manager |
| Laura Baxter | Crew |
| Verne Good | Crew |
| Shanna Miller | Crew |
| Andrya Duff | Crew |
| Michelle Ramsay | Crew |
| Mariko Tamaki | Crew |
| Katherine Smith | Crew |
| Jazz Kamal | Crew |
| Adrien Whan | Crew |
| Charissa Wilcox | Crew |
| Tanja-Tiziana | Cover Photography |
| David Hawe | Production Photography |
| Jonathan Kitchen | Graphic Designer |
Staff
| Charissa Wilcox | Head of Production |
| Adrien Whan | Technical Director |
| Katherine Smith | Technician |
