I Am My Own Wife
Release Date : 2004-02-09
ISBN 13: 9781429998635
Page : 112 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (36 users)
Download PDF or read online I Am My Own Wife Book by Doug Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi. In an attempt to discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wright has written "at once a vivid portrait of Germany in the second half of the twentieth century, a morally complex tale about what it can take to be a survivor, and an intriguing meditation on everything from the obsession with collecting to the passage of time" (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times).