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Title: Robert Cushman: The Silicone Diaries brings a sex change to the stage
Post by: Shana A on December 02, 2010, 08:56:53 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 02, 2010, 08:56:53 AM
Robert Cushman: The Silicone Diaries brings a sex change to the stage
Robert Cushman, National Post ยท Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Robert+Cushman+Silicone+Diaries+brings+change+stage/3913303/story.html (http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Robert+Cushman+Silicone+Diaries+brings+change+stage/3913303/story.html)
I've never seen as many people leave the theatre during a performance as I did at the re-opening of The Silicone Diaries. (The show, a hit in Buddies in Bad Times' cabaret room last season, is back for a run in the main space.) Their discomfort was, I'm fairly sure, physical rather than aesthetic, since the performance itself is a remarkable one. It's a transsexual's detailed account of her journey from a male body to a female one, and it includes extensive film footage of plastic surgery, both bodily and facial, as well as extensive verbal descriptions. The protagonist's trajectory was, in a sense, reversed by those in the audience who took early retirement: in the show's first half, the evacuees were women, in the second, as the story threatened to cut closer to home so to speak, they were men.
Robert Cushman, National Post ยท Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Robert+Cushman+Silicone+Diaries+brings+change+stage/3913303/story.html (http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Robert+Cushman+Silicone+Diaries+brings+change+stage/3913303/story.html)
I've never seen as many people leave the theatre during a performance as I did at the re-opening of The Silicone Diaries. (The show, a hit in Buddies in Bad Times' cabaret room last season, is back for a run in the main space.) Their discomfort was, I'm fairly sure, physical rather than aesthetic, since the performance itself is a remarkable one. It's a transsexual's detailed account of her journey from a male body to a female one, and it includes extensive film footage of plastic surgery, both bodily and facial, as well as extensive verbal descriptions. The protagonist's trajectory was, in a sense, reversed by those in the audience who took early retirement: in the show's first half, the evacuees were women, in the second, as the story threatened to cut closer to home so to speak, they were men.