Looking at the Good Body

Watching the Good Body was really a blast! Although I've some sort of pre-empted the show through reading the book (which is not bad I guess, yet I found myself not laughing at some of the "hilarious lines"), the actors were very successful in executing Eve Ensler's wonderfully written monologue.

I remember Monique as Sally Bowles. She really deserved a standing-ovation for her performance in Cabaret. Hence, it's not anymore unexpected to see her excellence performance again. Among the three actors, it was Monique Wilson who really stood out. She was able to shift from one to another character. I just couldn't imagine how she was able to imagine herself as an 80 year old Cosmopolitan editor. It's even more challenging to imagine her self as a 40+ years old Carol who had her vagina tightened. Aside from that, it's hard to be shifting from one character to another while shifting from an accent to another.

Methinks it could have been better if she played as Ensler. If I remember it correctly, there was a point where Monique gained some weight and become a little jadi (fat). Considering that Ensler's fixated with her belly, I guess for someone who’s experienced being somehow fat, she could feel the character better.

Unlike Pinky Amador who's (as far as I know) forever sexy and hot, it's quite hard to feel that she's got bulging belly. It is expected that she also goes on diet to maintain that flat belly but of course it would be a more felt performance if she had experienced having bulging belly. But of course, Pinky's performance was also commendable.

The funniest performance I guess would be that of Juno Henares'. She's so bubbly on stage. I very much liked her portrayal of Carmen, the Puerto Rican girl with a widespread.

The Good Body is a concrete call for people to care about their body and not to recycle their body. For some people, to have a good body is to be sexy and hot. To have a good body is to rejuvenate the vagina. To have a good body is to unleash all the wrinkles in the face. To have a good body is to have a big butt and breast.

However, to have a good body doesn’t mean you have to starve your self. It doesn’t mean that you’ve to undergo painful operations simply to satisfy the society’s notion of what a good body is. It’s not about having a vital statistics of 36-24-36.

In reality, having a good body is simply about self-acceptance. We will all grow old and lose the beauty. We will all have the wrinkles, the spread, the saggy arms and even saggy breasts. We will all lose that glowing look. There will come a point that we may be sexually incapacitated. But what we cannot lose is our identity.

“And if various parts of her body began to grow and shrink and Tereza no longer looked like herself, would she still be herself, would she still be Tereza?"

"Of course, even if Tereza were completely unlike Tereza, her soul inside her would be the same and look on in amazement at what was happening to her body.”

--p. 139 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

While the Afghan women were indulging into the yummy taste of vanilla ice-cream, I was craving for vanilla milkshake. Good thing, there's milkshake at Mc Donald’s Greenhills. Yum! Yum! 16 ounce of Mc Do’s Vanilla milkshake for super late dinner! I'm jadi, a perfectly beautiful jadi. :P

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It's my 100th post :)) akalain mo?