I Am My Own Wife BROADWAY REVIEWS

  • NY TIMES

  • Opening Night:
    December 3, 2003
    Closing:
    October 31, 2004

    Theater: Lyceum Theatre / 149 West 45th Street, New York, NY, 10036

    Synopsis: 

    Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, I Am My Own Wife tells the fascinating tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive both the Nazi onslaught and the following, repressive Communist regime. The one-man play by Doug Wright stars Jefferson Mays as a host of characters, including the controversial figure herself and an American writer who becomes intrigued by her. Moisés Kaufman directs.

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  • NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF I Am My Own Wife

    Inventing Her Life As She Goes Along

    Bruce Weber

    December 4, 2003: Of all the peculiar entries in the Broadway derby this fall, perhaps the most peculiar is Doug Wright's fascinating one-actor play starring Jefferson Mays, ''I Am My Own Wife.'' A critical success in its limited run earlier this year Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, it has now moved to the Lyceum Theater, where it opened last night amid all kinds of doubts that such a work might find enough of a mainstream audience to sustain it.

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