The Silicone Diaries: Theatre review
ON STAGE / Nina Arsenault keeps her audience in awe & in stitches
Cate Simpson / Toronto / Friday, November 20, 2009
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The Silicone Diaries, a one-woman, 90-minute unbroken monologue, documents Nina Arsenault's transformation from an awkward young transsexual whose friends told her she would never pass as a "real" woman to the embodiment of surgically enhanced silicone female perfection.
From the beginning you know how the story ends. Arsenault slinks on stage in a transparent dress that displays just what 60 surgeries will do for you. Her body is not only the subject of the story, but a part of it. Every time the audience grits their teeth against Arsenault's retelling of black market silicone injections and surgeries in Mexico, they only have to look to Arsenault's perfect form for reassurance that everything turns out okay.