PRESS RELEASE: The Silicone Diaries (the play)

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents
THE SILICONE DIARIES
Created and performed by Nina Arsenault
Directed by Brendan Healy
Dramaturgy by Judith Rudakoff

Buddies is thrilled to host this powerful and intriguing tell-all by local transsexual celeb and queer art goddess Nina Arsenault.

Nov 14 – 21, 2009

Transsexual Nina Arsenault’s sixty cosmetic surgeries and procedures, augmentations and alterations may be “fake” but her diaries are nothing but real. The Silicone Diaries presents a full, frank and fierce exploration of the contradictory sensations and the joy and tumult indelibly written on, through and throughout her body. Her transformation from an awkward man who once resembled Crispin Glover into a 36D-26-40  bombshell involved Playboy bunny fantasies, black market injections and a crying Game-style collision with rocker Tommy Lee.  An outrageous, inspirational and often hilarious performance that garnered standing ovations at its World Premiere in Saint John, New Brunswick.  Dramaturg Judith Rudakoff brings twenty years of international experience in helping Nina to shape the text.  Brendan Healy (recipient of the 2006 Ken McDougall Award for Emering Directors) directs as Nina draws the battle lines and wrestles with the conventions of patriarchy to come to peace with her radical, queer body.