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).
- ISBN10 0822220245
- ISBN13 9780822220244
- Publish Date 24 January 2006 (first published 9 February 2004)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dramatists Play Service
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 48
- Language English