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Created and performed by Nina Arsenault* Directed by Brendan Healy Dramaturgy by Judith Rudakoff Stage Manager Sandy Plunkett* Production Designer Trevor Schwellnus Associate Lighting Designer Michelle Ramsay Music and Sound Designer Richard Feren Associate Sound Designer Michael Laird Video Designer R Kelly Clipperton Chamber Technician and Head Carpenter Katherine Smith Crew Laura Baxter, Verne Good, Shanna Miller, Andrya Duff, Michelle Ramsay, Mariko Tamaki, Katherine Smith, Jazz Kamal, Adrien Whan, Charissa Wilcox Wardrobe provided by Northbound Leather Cover photography by Tanja-Tiziana, doublecrossed.ca Graphic Design by Jonathan Kitchen, jakcreative.com Production Photography by David Hawe Acknowledgements: This performance text has developed with the support of the following companies and artists: VenusMACHINE, Mitchel Raphael, Fab! Magazine, Andrea Nemeth, Anthony Collins, The Saint John Theatre Company (Theatre on the Edge Fest), Stephen Tobias, Port City Rainbow Pride, The Mahogany Manor, Sky Gilbert (Free Jane!), Brendan Healy, John Grundy, Paul Halferty, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, David Oiye, Erika Hennebury, Ed Roy and Fides Krucker.

Thanks to Jeffery P. Nesker @ Ocular Nutrition Nina’s Dedication: To my parents for the complexity of their never ending love and support. *with permission from Canadian Actors’ Equity Association Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

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“Skin is misleading … in life, you only have your skin…

There is a mismatch in human relationships, because you never are what you have…

I have the skin of an angel, but I am a jackal… the skin of a crocodile, but I am a puppy dog… the skin of a woman, but I am a man; I never have the skin of what I am. There is no exception to the rule, because I am never what I have.”

From Eugénie Lemoine Luccioni’s “The Dress” as read before each of French artist Orlan’s seminal plastic surgery art performances.

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hen Andy Warhol declared “I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” almost fifty years ago, he was honoring the true idol of his era. Warhol wasn’t being cheeky or ironic - he was getting spiritual. A substance of powerful polymorphic properties, at the time plastic was the perfect embodiment of malleability and transformability. A sleek and shiny entity that seemed indestructible, it was a paragon of immortality. Warhol rightfully recognized that plastic was a quintessential representation of mid-twentieth century ideals.

We now live in the age of silicone. These semi-inorganic polymeric compounds are even more mutable and more eternal than plastic. Silicone has affected our daily lives in countless ways (hello lube) but perhaps its most profound impact has only begun to be felt. With this substance, we have been given the unparalleled ability to manifest our innermost desires on our external flesh. We can refashion the bodies that nature imposed to more closely fit our own terms. We can incarnate our own visions of perfection; become the literal personifications of our most profound fantasies; transform ourselves into the avatars of our deepest interiors.

Much of the discourse around plastic surgery is based on a series of assumptions. On the one hand, defenders tell us that there is a schism in the way that we experience our identities - how we look on the outside is at odds with who we believe we authentically are inside – and these surgical interventions are justified because they satisfy some apparently profound need for coherence in our identities. On the other hand, detractors argue that we live in a world where one’s self-image is distorted through endless media refractions and these surgeries are turning us into reproductions of mediated versions of reality that have nothing to do with the real.

Coherence. Real. Words that come out of a model of identity that is constant and stable.

Like Warhol, Nina Arsenault (herself, in some ways, a Warholian creation) understands silicone. She has used this substance to raise the pursuit of the real fake to metaphysical levels. In doing so, she destabilizes the coherence and authenticity of identity. Like silicone itself, Nina creates a new paradigm of mutable identity: one that will not stick, that is likely to change, inconstant, variable. And magnificent. Tonight, she is a silicone goddess and you are in her white temple. In her presence, you can no longer tell where the artificial ends and the real begins; what is sacred and what is profane; what is constant and what is changing. And you embark on a journey where the imaginary merges with the physical to create the idealized landscape that is art.

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Dramaturg’s Notes

I am not a normal “woman trapped inside a man’s body.” This cultural sound byte does not begin to encompass the complexity of my experience.

These are the words of Nina Arsenault, transsexual icon and performance artist. In her creative work, perhaps better said, her body of work, Nina does not reduce her transformation from man to woman to a series of cleverly constructed vignettes. Nina is her body of work, inside and out, an audacious example of the artist as art.

“One of the things that has been written most about me in the press,” she explains, “is that I have had sixty cosmetic surgeries and procedures at the cost of almost two hundred thousand dollars.” Know that only some of these procedures were transsexual surgeries, undertaken with the goal of sculpting an external gender more in line with the internal image she has always held of herself. The rest of the procedures, Nina has clarified, have more to do with the universal yearning for beauty.

The Silicone Diaries moves past confessions and transgressions to delve into a deeply personal psychological and emotional journey through Nina’s Hall of Mirrors, a state of being that is part labyrinth, part grotesque fun house. This play is not, as she characterizes some autobiographical stage plays, an enacted series of greatest memories of her transition. Firstly, Nina’s internal transformation is an ongoing, challenging work in progress. Secondly, the external transition is worthy of far more than a documentary chronicling of events, no matter how funny, poignant, frightening and engaging those events may be. In part, The Silicone Diaries presents Nina’s frank and revealing story of one woman’s relationship to a manufactured substance, silicone, and the exquisite meanings it has written on, through and throughout her body. The play is also an active, empowering ritual.

Beyond acceptable, beyond reasonable, Nina validates and celebrates choices that are mythic in proportion, and human in depth of feeling. These are stories of longing and belonging, of need and passion, and, ultimately, these are stories of magic where energy and will, directed at change, can achieve anything.

- Judith Rudakoff Dramaturg

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UNION EIGHT THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF

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By Sonja Mills Directed by Ruth Madoc-jones Movement Director Clare Preuss Set and Costume Design Patrick Du Wors Lighting Design Kimberly Purtell Sound Design Kevin Centeno Featuring Anna Chatterton, Lesley Dowey, bruce Hunter, Veronika Hurnik, Caitlin Morris-Cornfield, jimi Shlag and Astrid Van Wieren

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Biographies Nina Arsenault, Creator/Performer

After sixty cosmetic surgeries and procedures to remake her body Nina Arsenault considers herself a queer artist and a queer art object. Her metamorphosis from an awkward man who once resembled character actor Crispin Glover (Marty McFly’s dad in Back to the Future) into a silicone bombshell has been the subject of numerous television programs, radio interviews, and print articles. Nina quickly became annoyed with others making narratives of her life. She also wanted the final word on lighting and camera angles. She took control of her own voice and image in a series of outrageous, touching and hilarious columns in Fab! Magazine called T-girl. After these stories of plastic surgery, life in the sex trade and romances with thuggish tranny lovers she went on to write for The National Post. Her articles are now required reading at several Canadian universities in gender studies and sociology departments. In 2007, Pride Toronto and Toronto’s mayor, David Miller, honoured Nina with the prestigious “Unstoppable Award” for her cultural contributions to our understanding of sex and gender and for embodying the theme of that year’s Pride celebration. That year she was also offered a Honourary Fellowship at the University of Toronto’s Sexual Diversity Studies Programme. (She already had two postgraduate degrees in theatre.) On television, Nina has played a steroid raging female body builder for OutTV’s gay sports/ comedy show Locker Room, a tranny dominatrix with a heart of gold on Global’s Train48 and a 1970’s porn star on Maggie Cassella’s variety show The Vent. In 2008, theatre legend Sky Gilbert wrote Ladylike specifically for Nina to star in. After performing Ladylike in Hamilton and Toronto Nina took what she learned and created her own one woman show, The Silicone Diaries. It opened to standing ovations in Saint John, New Brunswick. Her company has produced the sell out show I Was Barbie at the queer comedy festival We’re Funny That Way, Queer Acts Festival in Halifax and Buddies in Bad Times’ Pride Festival.

In between writing and performing Nina lectures at Canadian universities and is also a Jessica Rabbit and Barbie impersonator/ party decoration-for-hire. Nina was also one of the keynote speakers at Idea City 2010, Moses Znaimer’s conference of cutting edge thinkers and do-ers.

R. Kelly Clipperton – Video Designer

R. Kelly Clipperton is a musician, stylist, photographer, filmmaker and writer. He loves Buddies in Bad times Theatre and is a proud Torontonian. After three successful solo exhibits – 2003’s Greatest Hits at Gallery X, 2005’s Hogtown Hedonism at The Gladstone Hotel Gallery and this year’s Order Will Keep You Calm at Bohmer – Kelly finds himself working on his newest series, Top 30 which will showcase in the Spring of ‘11. His band Kelly and the Kellygirls will be releasing their first live concert film titled MMX in February of next year.

Richard Feren, Music and Sound Designer

Richard has been creating soundscores and music for Canadian theatre, dance and film since 1992. Companies include Buddies In Bad Times (Blasted; Silicone Diaries; Steel Kiss/Gulag; Live With It; Bathory); Canadian Stage (Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet; The Soldier Dreams); Crow’s Theatre (Eternal Hydra; Dali); da da kamera (This Is What Happens Next; Cul-de-Sac; In On It; You Are Here; Monster; Here Lies Henry); Dancemakers (The Satie Project); Necessary Angel (Half-Life; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

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Blasted

By Sarah Kane Directed by Brendan Healy Sep 22 – Oct 17, 2010 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents

The Silicone Diaries Created and performed by Nina Arsenault

Nov 25 – Dec 11, 2010 Buddies In Bad Times Theatre proudly welcomes The World Premiere of Union Eight Theatre’s

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The 32nd Rhubarb Festival Toronto’s Annual Convergence of Contemporary Performance Festival Director Laura Nanni Feb 16 – 27, 2011

Buddies In Bad Times Theatre proudly welcomes A Native Earth Performing Arts production

Tombs of the Vanishing Indian

By Marie Clements Mar 9 - 27, 2011 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in association with OutSpoke Productions presents

SPIN

Created and performed by Evalyn Parry Mar 17 – 27, 2011 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre proudly welcomes The Cabaret Company’s

The Situationists

Written and directed by Sky Gilbert Apr 11 – 24, 2011 Buddies In Bad Times Theatre in Association with the National Arts Centre presents

AGOKWE

Written and performed by Waawaate Fobister May 5 – 15, 2011 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents

Tightrope

Created and performed by 2boys.tv (Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard) May 27 – Jun 5, 2011 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

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Insomnia; The Eco Show); Soulpepper (A Month in the Country; Antigone; Loot; A Raisin in the Sun; The Chairs; King Lear; Betrayal, Uncle Vanya; Endgame); Tarragon Theatre (Russell Hill; The Good Life; Faust); Theatrefront (The Mill); Theatre Passe Muraille (Possible Worlds; This Hotel); 2B Theatre (Revisited); and VideoCabaret.

Richard has won six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award.

Brendan Healy, Director

Brendan Healy was appointed Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times in September 2009. Originally from Montreal, Brendan began his career as an actor, appearing most-notably in Peter Hinton’s production of Girls!Girls!Girls! presented at the 2000 TransAmériques Festival. It was at that festival that Brendan met Richard Maxwell, whose company, the New York City Players, is considered to be one of the most influential alternative theatre companies currently operating in Manhattan. That meeting led Brendan to New York where he interned under Mr. Maxwell and where he decided to dedicate himself exclusively to directing. Since relocating to Toronto almost a decade ago, Brendan has established himself as a central figure in the city’s independent theatre scene and his work has been presented across the country. He has taught and directed at Concordia University and the National Theatre School of Canada. Brendan is a graduate of the National Theatre School’s directing program and he has trained extensively with one of the pioneers of the American avant-garde Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. He is a recipient of the Ken McDougall Award for emerging director and was awarded the Pauline McGibbon Award for directing.

Brendan was the associate artist at Crow’s Theatre before becoming the Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times. Most recently Brendan directed the Canadian English language premiere of Sarah Kane’s Blasted at Buddies.

Michael Laird – Associate Sound Designer

Based in Toronto, Michael’s work has been heard in theatre productions throughout North America. Selected credits: Evil Dead: The Musical (Off Broadway, Toronto & Montréal); Stuff Happens (Studio 180 & Mirvish Productions); The Overwhelming, Blackbird, Offensive Shadows (Studio 180); A Beautiful View (da da kamera) (2006 Dora Award nomination); A Year with Frog and Toad, The Princess and the Handmaiden, Forbidden Phoenix, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Wizard of Oz (LKTYP); Such Creatures (Nightswimming); Through the Leaves, Festen, Marion Bridge (Company Theatre); Noble Parasites (Theatre Passe Muraille); Norway.Today, Tijuana Cure, Tiny Dynamite (Theatre Smash). Associate Sound Designer credits: Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast (Citadel Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate (Stratford Shakespeare Festival)

Sandy Plunkett, Stage Manager

Sandy Plunkett, a Peterborough native and student from the school of life, happily returns to Buddies once more. His past Buddies adventures include; The Rhubarb Festival, The Queer Youth Project, and The Beauty Salon. Fresh from a run of Through the Leaves (Company Theatre), Sandy is ready for anything. Recent Credits include TD Dream in High Park: Romeo and Juliet (Canadian Stage Company), Featuring Loretta (Factory Theatre), The Turn of the Screw (DVxT), La Comunion (Aluna Theatre), Yichud (seclusion) (Convergence/TPM).

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Michelle Ramsay, Associate Lighting Designer

Michelle is pleased to join the Silicone company and the rest of the Buddies staff for this run. She has collaborated with many theatre and dance companies including: Theatre Rusticle, Blue Ceiling Dance, Native Earth Performing Arts, The National Arts Centre, Human Cargo, New Harlem Productions, Mirvish Productions, fuGen, Cahoots Theatre Company, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille and many others. She has been nominated for seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards and has received three. In 2008 she received the Pauline McGibbon Award.

Judith Rudakoff, Dramaturg

Award-winning developmental dramaturg Judith Rudakoff has worked with emerging and established playwrights and artists throughout Canada (from the Yukon to Nunavut and points in between) and in Cuba, Denmark, South Africa, England and USA. She is a member of Playwrights Guild of Canada, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. A recent project, Common Plants: Cross Pollinations in Hybrid Reality (www.yorku.ca/gardens), is a transcultural, multidisciplinary creative project involving artists and students from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds including Iqaluit, Nunavut, Cape Town, South Africa and Namma Bhoomi, India. Current playwriting includes Beautiful Little Lies, a stage play set in Cuba which received staged readings in Trinidad, Toronto and Guyana in 2009 and will receive a showcase at the hotINK International Play Festival in New York in 2010; and Home, an evolving collaboration with Nakai Theatre in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Judith teaches playwriting, developmental dramaturgy and contemporary Canadian theatre at York University.

Trevor Schwellnus, Production Designer

Trevor Schwellnus is a Scenographer designing sets, lighting, and video in Toronto, and is Artistic Producer of Aluna Theatre. He has recently collaborated with: Sasha Ivanochko (Future Memory Heartbreak Junction), Dancemakers (Double Bill #2), Ame Henderson/ publicrecordings (relay, /Dance/Songs/), Aluna Theatre (La Comunión, Madre, For Sale), Buddies in Bad Times (Silicone Diaries), Small Wooden Shoe (Dedicated to the Revolutions), among others. He has 2 Dora Awards for his work with Aluna, among 9 career award nominations.

Upcoming: publicrecordings (300 Tapes), Marie-Josée Chartier (Stria), and his collaborative dance-theatre work-inprogress, Nohayquiensepa (NoOneKnows), just presented in Bogatá, Colombia, premières at the Theatre Centre in March 2011. blog: http://www.trevschwell.blogspot.com 16 the silicone diaries

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Est. 1979

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

– James Baldwin, 1924 –1987, THE COMPANY American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist Artistic Director Brendan Healy and civil rights activist.

General Manager Shawn Daudlin Head of Production Charissa Wilcox Producer Erika Hennebury Director of Fundraising Jayne Schneider Young Creators’ Unit Director Evalyn Parry Youth Programme Coordinator Chy Ryan Spain Technical Director Adrien Whan Chamber Technician Katherine Smith Cabaret Technician Jazz Kamal Production Assistant Andrya Duff Finance Manager Leila Ois Administrative Assistant Mark Aikman Box Office/FOH Manager & Volunteer Coordinator Chrystal Donbrath-Zinga Asst. Box Office Manager & Volunteer Coordinator Jenna Harris Bar Manager Paul Hill Assistant Bar Manager Patricia Wilson Box Office Personnel Thom Bryce, Christopher Mitchell, Wilson Ho, Evelyn Shaller-Auslander, Aaron Rothermund,

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