NEW YORK—The first thing you notice when actress Renée Taylor makes her entrance at the start of her one-person show, “My Life on a Diet,” is how at ease you feel in her presence. She comes on with a bit of regal air but quickly shifts to that of a favorite aunt welcoming you into her home.
A self-described “food tramp: someone who eats around,” Taylor tells an autobiographical tale that chronicles her attempts to stay thin, while at the same time exploring her very personal struggle with issues of self-esteem. Her condition was aggravated when she was told by the dean of an acting school she attended that, after playing the female lead in the school’s production of “Romeo and Juliet,” her “weight had sabotaged the play.”
