Audience Choice Award (The Charlie) at the 2002 Acme New Works Winter Festival.

REVIEW FROM T heaterMirror.com (complete review)

Did YOU know that Jennifer Grey, who looked Jewish in the film "Dirty Dancing" bobbed her nose and was then in five films in which no one noticed her tiny goyishe schnozz?

I didn't. But Robert Mattson has two women impatient for "the proceedure" explain this to illustrate his point about being who you are. Ceit McCaleb-Zweil is there for a boob-job (enhancement) Jennifer Shotkin for a nose-job (diminishment) --- and both ask and explain and argue about the motivations for such acts, since each has what the other wants. Which doesn't ignore a lot of crisply hip zingers spicing up the conversation. ("How big do you want 'em? I mean, do you want to turn a few heads, or do you want to stop traffic?")

Robert Mattson directed his own play, which begins with silent anxiety, rushes into the exhuberant confessions only total strangers can achieve, wrestles with serious ideas of self- identity, and all the while has Kim Anton as an apologetic nurse walking through with ever more ominous hand-props explaining exactly why the off-stage skin-sculptor is running later and later on his appointments today. The blend of comedy and serious strike exactly the right notes as the women learn more about each other, and about themselves.