I Am My Own Wife

Doug Wright · 2003 CE · Play · Modern / American · Contemporary

One actor plays Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an East Berlin antiquarian and transvestite who lived through the Nazi years and the Stasi, and the playwright who interviews her and begins to doubt her account. Her story gathers other voices as the record grows contradictory. Premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2003, a monodrama on the unreliability of the witness.

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