The Silicone Diaries (2009)
Produced by
Playwright: Nina Arsenault
Director: Brendan Healy
Venue
The Alexander Street Cabaret Space
Run
November 14th, 2009 – November 21st, 2009
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 | Set Designer |
| Trevor Schwellnus | Lighting Designer |
| Nicholas A. Greenland | Video Designer |
| Richard Feren | Composer |
| Richard Feren | Sound Designer |
Production
| Laura Baxter | Stage Manager |
| Katherine Smith | Head Carpenter |
| Tony Fong | Programme Cover Photography |
| Jonathan Kitchen | Graphic Designer |
| David Hawe | Production Photography |
Staff
| Charissa Wilcox | Head of Production |
| Adrien Whan | Technical Director |
| Katherine Smith | Technician |
