The Silicone Diaries

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The Silicone Diaries
Eye Weekly
BY Chandler Levack
17 November 2009


http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/theatre/article/77187--the-silicone-diaries


Getting a long look at Nina Arsenault is a piece of theatre in and of itself. Canada's most celebrated transsexual has a curvaceous body that's part Jessica Rabbit, part Grace Jones, all dangerous swerves and angles that meet at points accessible only by plastic surgery or divine intervention. Director Brendan Healy (who is also Buddies' new Artistic Director) makes a wise choice, then, to stage Arsenault's one-transsexual show in the intimate backroom of Buddies' Cabaret. Arsenault's life's work is what you see, a living altar to the female form that is unimaginably theatrical.