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	I Am My Own Wife - Doug Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His one-person play, I Am My Own Wife, is a lightly fictionalized retelling of von Mahlsdorf's life that utilizes material from those interviews as well as letters and the public record.
		Interpreted in a remarkable performance by Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife immortalizes von Mahlsdorf without idealizing her; she emerges a fascinating character, a survivor who did what she thought she had to do to make it through some of the darkest, most repressive times in modern history.
		In presenting a transvestite as a fully-developed character--charming, intelligent, imperfect--I Am My Own Wife is an essentially subversive work, one that refuses to fall back on stereotype or simplification, but forces the viewer to deal with a three-dimensional, real person who happened to be different.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater7/IAmMyOwnWife.htm (544 words)

	I Am My Own Wife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With a text by talented Doug Wright, astute direction by Moises Kaufman and a riveting solo tour de force performance by Jefferson Mays, "I Am My Own Wife" is captivating, witty and altogether compelling.
		As amazing as von Mahlsdorf's story is the solo performance of Mays, who portrays the iconoclastic and enigmatic collector along with more than three dozen others who were touched by her.
		What comes through in "I Am My Own Wife" is the utter complexity of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf and her instinct for survival.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000964242 (376 words)

	Welcome to Berlin: Author Doug Wright tells how a memorable meeting with Charlotte von Mahlsdorf led to the creation of ...
		I Am My Own Wife, which garnered critical kudos during its three month run this summer at Playwright's Horizons, re-opens at the Lyceum Theater on Broadway this week.
		I Am My Own Wife was first brought to light in 2000 at the Sundance Theater Laboratory in Utah, when Wright was invited to bring his transcripts and try and make a play of them.
		There were a few times when I visited her on my own; her face would fall a bit and she would say, 'Isn't Jeffrey coming?'" Even after the interviews were done, Wright continued to correspond with Charlotte, requesting and receiving documents and photos.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4099 (1847 words)

	I Am My Own Wife: A Play
		I am not sure what to think of it still, or even whether Charlotte is a man acting like a woman, or the other way around.
		I Am My Own Wife is a rare work that does not merely draw a one noted portrayal of its heroine but fully explores their more questionable aspects and confronts how we record history and the difficulty of finding truth about one individual.
		I Am My Own Wife is an intelligent, funny, and heartbreaking work and i believe it will influence and move theatre artists, audiences and readers for decades to come.
	www.everwoodmusic.com /filminfo.php?film=0571211747 (1166 words)

	washingtonpost.com: 'I Am My Own Wife': A Distant Relation
		Its enigmatic central character, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (nee Lothar Berfelde), is engaged in a kind of passive heroism, stubbornly clinging in perilous times to life as an improvised woman, a choice that easily could have gotten her imprisoned or killed.
		"I Am My Own Wife" spends a lot of time exploring Charlotte's obsession with the objects, and in the end presents her as another of them.
		I Am My Own Wife, by Doug Wright.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14558-2005Mar30?language=printer (876 words)

	I Am My Own Wife
		Doug Wright is careful not to let his own politics cloud Charlotte's story, which is difficult, given the poignant subject matter.
		When Wright's own politics come into play, it is only spoken through his character-counterpart never through Charlotte's voice or the action of the play.
		I had to blink my eyes to remember there was just one man and barely a set of which to speak.
	www.theaterscene.net /ts/articles.nsf/BSP/EFAD5602E9E561D685256E1B006844B2 (693 words)

	I am my Own Wife
		I am my Own Wife The amazing true story about Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive the Nazi onslaught as well as the following, repressive Communist regime.
		This compelling award-winning drama follows the journey playwright Doug Wright made from New York to Berlin to interview Charlotte who was hailed as a cultural hero of her time.
		I am my Own Wife Jefferson Mays is particularly impressive as Charlotte, but also manages to be believable as a reptilian talk-show host, dozens of different male Americans, each with a different regional accent, a Brit, a Japanese, and lots of Germans.
	www.londontheatreticketweb.co.uk /the_imyownwife.htm (235 words)

	REVIEW :: I Am My Own Wife
		Similarly, Charlotte needs to believe her own stories about enduring first Nazi then communist rule while living as a transvestite and homosexual.
		I am my own wife by Doug Wright on broadway, lyceum theatre.
		I Am My Own Wife: 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 the Nazi onslaught as well as the following, repressive Communist regime.
	www.iammyownwife.com /review_washDC_washtimes.asp (690 words)

	I Am My Own Wife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But some brave producers, no doubt encouraged by the flock of critical raves that greeted this play's off-Broadway production this year, have taken the leap, and it will be interesting to see if their faith will be rewarded.
		"I Am My Own Wife," Doug Wright's ("Quills") examination of the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who famously managed to survive and even prosper in Berlin during both the Nazi and Soviet regimes, is a provocative and sometimes fascinating piece, and it boasts a superlative performance by Jefferson Mays.
		Among the other characters is the playwright himself, detailing his reactions to Charlotte's story and his own difficulties in structuring the piece.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2044770 (408 words)

	I Am My Own Wife, by Douglas Wright
		"I Am My Own Wife" is based on the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (née Lothar Berfelde), a soft-spoken but tenaciously gender-bending biological male who died in 2002 at 74.
		The play largely follows Charlotte as she endured the cruel repressions of the Nazis and the Communists, and her harrowing tales of survival through the eras of the Gestapo and the Stasi, the East German secret police, are nothing short of breathtaking.
		Everything about "I Am My Own Wife" is outstanding, from Moisés Kaufman’s limpid direction to the deceptively simple stage design of Derek McLane.
	homepage.mac.com /wrk/iblog/C1015408960/E1925208581/index.html (294 words)

	Review: 'I Am My Own Wife' is more story than play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Public Theater's "I Am My Own Wife" is an account of just such a quest, but whether it's gripping theater depends on whether you get much involved in the quest yourself.
		But I am intrigued by the story, which is undoubtedly strange.
		There is an opacity to his Charlotte that I think is appropriate: Behind her dignified reserve is an unspoken, unknowable mystery.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06114/684573-325.stm (868 words)

	village voice > theater > I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright by Michael Feingold
		So I point to Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, as directed by Moisés Kaufman and acted by Jefferson Mays, at Playwrights Horizons.
		By the time the Communist system, too, began to harden into its own infamously inferior sort of concrete block, Charlotte was a recognized expert on the decorative objects of the Wilhelmine era, running a museum of its classic objects in one of Mahlsdorf's last surviving manor houses.
		For credibility, the East German regime needed to sustain cultural-heritage sites; and an expert appraiser of antique objects, however eccentric, was always useful to an impoverished system in which an injection of Western currency was the grease that kept Communism's wheels turning.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0323/feingold.php (1212 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Review: I Am My Own Wife
		Jefferson Mays, the sole performer in Doug Wright's play I Am My Own Wife, now at the Lyceum after a successful spring run at Playwrights Horizons, has managed to transform the show from an intelligent curiosity to a full-sized Broadway show with energy and life to spare.
		This all has combined to make I Am My Own Wife sharper, more focused, and more moving, less coldly informed by its subtitle ("Studies for a Play About the Life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf") than by the dramatic necessity of bringing von Mahlsdorf's story to life.
		They have now tapped into her voice and are amplifying it loud and clear so that her stories may captivate and inspire others as they did Wright; for that achievement, the Broadway transfer of I Am My Own Wife is to be lauded and treasured for as long as it lasts.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/OwnWife.html (918 words)

	I Am My Own Wife @ Duke Of York's Theatre, London : theatre review
		Doug Wright's fascinating one-man drama, I Am My Own Wife, is based on a true story.
		East German Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, museum owner and transvestite, survived some of the past century's most turbulent times - the Third Reich and the years of communism that followed - and the play is drawn from interviews that Wright conducted with her throughout the 1990s.
		Born Lothar, Charlotte was indoctrinated into her cross-dressing ways by her lesbian aunt who wryly commented on the tricks that God plays - making Lothar a boy and making her a woman when the opposite was closer to the truth.
	www.musicomh.com /theatre/my-own-wife_1105.htm (568 words)

	Amazon.com: I Am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's Most Distinguished Transvestite: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I own the rights to this title and would like to make it available again through Amazon.
		Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde in 1928 in Mahlsdorf, was the son of a benevolent mother and a tyrannical father.
		Although this is nonfiction, I Am My Own Woman reads like a traditional action-adventure story?with a cross-dressing furniture buff as the hero.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573440108?v=glance (1254 words)

	MSN Dating & Personals - 'I Am My Own Wife': An interview with Doug Wright
		She also was a teller of tall tales — or at least those of questionable height — that take her story through numerous twists and turns over the course of the play, which recounts Wright's conversations with her.
		I think the mind is a really malleable thing, and memory is quite fluid, and if an event in her life was too painful or too difficult to reconcile, she could simply supplant it with a new one.
		I Am My Own Wife is playing at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City.
	msn.match.com /msn/article.aspx?articleid=2073 (616 words)

	I Am My Own Wife in London \| Official London Theatre Guide
		I Am My Own Wife, starring Jefferson Mays, who won a clutch of awards for his performance in the play on Broadway, will open in London at the Duke of York’s on 10 November, following previews from 3 November.
		I Am My Own Wife explores the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer, who successfully navigated two highly oppressive regimes – the Nazis and the Communists.
		I Am My Own Wife is directed by Moisés Kaufman and runs for a 14-week season, finishing on 4 February 2006.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/display/cm/contentId/86292 (338 words)

	I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
		A profound and dynamic work that has become one of the most decorated plays in the American Theater, I Am My Own Wife was the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and The 2004 Tony Award for Best Play.
		I Am My Own Wife is the most stirring new work to appear on Broadway this fall…both moving and intellectually absorbing.
		I Am My Own Wife revels in a particular time and place, but it is more than a historical document.
	www.portlandstage.com /Shows/2005-2006/0602_MyOwnWife/Promo.html (377 words)

	Amazon.com: I Am My Own Wife: A Play: Books: Doug Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I read about "I Am My Own Wife" in The Advocate and The Gay and Lesbian Review, so I bought the script and was impressed by it.
		This is my final analysis after discussing it with many friends.
		The story of "I Am My Own Wife" is all the more distinguished because of the universiality of its reach and the power of its final message.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0571211747?v=glance (2357 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - I Am My Own Wife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		More is clearly less in the Wilma production of Doug Wright's remarkable tour de force "I Am My Own Wife," which won both the Tony and Pulitzer in Moises Kaufman's dazzling original production, performed as a solo piece by Jefferson Mays.
		It could be argued, however, that they more accurately convey her contradictions -- a woman who refused to own a TV goes on the talkshow circuit.
		A theatrically shocking moment occurs early on when, remembering herself as a boy wearing female clothes for the first time, the old Charlotte sees her young self in a film (or hologram?) projected onto the rear wall as though in a mirror.
	www.variety.com /av_result.asp?articleid=VE1117928354&nid=2580 (794 words)

	Dallas Theater Center - Let Yourself Go
		Wright, one of over 30 characters in his own one-man play, is driven to uncover the truth of Charlotte's controversial past in this highly theatrical journey.
		My method of work is like play therapy.
		While these seem to be desolate, lonely themes, my characters, both animate and inanimate (and perhaps myself), are not totally at a dead end.
	www.dallastheatercenter.org /CurrentSeason.aspx?P_ID=5328 (335 words)

	Review: 'I Am My Own Wife'
		Arnie Burton's mesmerizing performance as Charlotte von Mahlsdorf in I Am My Own Wife, presented by the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, is strongly challenged for attention by Marie Anne Chiment's glorious set depicting von Mahlsdorf's museum of antiquities.
		In the end the play remains a gripping, moving depiction of a Berlin transvestite who lived most of the 20th century insulated in her own private world as fascism and communism swirled around her.
		Von Mahlsdorf was born Lothar Berfelde but preferred life as a female, cataloguing and preserving the world that preceded his/her own existence, concentrating on items from the last few decades of the 19th century.
	www.backstage.com /bso/news_reviews/stage/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001882078 (402 words)

	I Am My Own Wife: Studies for a Play About the Life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a CurtainUp review
		The gender bending central character in I Am My Own Wife is actually a She-- German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berfelde in 1928 and more often a victim on the playing field of Germany during and after World War II than a victor on the baseball diamond.
		On the surface, I Am My Own Wife may sound like a familiar tale about a man who as a teenager discovers he likes dressing up as a woman.
		Her manner too is soft, low-key, more enigmatic than exotic and her passion is not in the realm of sex but antiques of the 1890s, the collector's single-minded devotion making its own statement about the Germanic fixation on purposeful dedication to a cause.
	www.curtainup.com /iammyownwife.html (1559 words)

	'I am My Own Wife' an intelligent play - Life & Arts
		Tonight, the Zachary Scott Theatre will present its version of the Tony Award-winning play, "I Am My Own Wife." The play focuses on the life of protagonist Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin, Germany.
		She is much like other museum owners on the surface, but taking a deeper look reveals that Charlotte, who was actually born Lothar Berfelde, has a dark secret of her own.
		The intrigue of "I Am My Own Wife" lies in the two-hour journey the audience takes to determine who Charlotte really is.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2006/07/13/LifeArts/i.Am-My.Own.Wife.An.Intelligent.Play-2131377.shtml (557 words)

	'I Am My Own Wife' traces intriguing journey - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Somewhere near the end of "I Am My Own Wife," Charlotte von Mahlsdorf explains why she resisted touching up the furniture that she collected for her museum.
		Wright's play follows Charlotte's life as she survives and even thrives under conditions that often are as horrific as they are amazing.
		But "I Am My Own Wife" is as much about Wright's journey as it is about Charlotte's.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_446212.html (523 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Theatre \| I Am My Own Wife
		Perhaps the interpretive artists here are trying to contrast the cross-dresserâs naturalness with the desperate drag that the rest of us are supposedly performing.
		The script for I Am My Own Wife won a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize, but the play is pedestrian.
		And to my queer Canadian eyes its exploration of gender is hardly daringâ”even though the potential was there.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=16729 (433 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - I Am My Own Wife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		By Jefferson Mays plays notorious East German transvestite Charlotte Mahlsdorf in 'I Am My Own Wife,' at the Wadsworth Theater.
		"Wife" begins by painting Mahlsdorf's career as a museum owner and compulsive collector, and the amazing set by Derek McLane shows the fruits of her loving labor against a tall rear theater wall, exquisitely lit by David Lander -- clocks, gramophones, porcelain lamps and vases, records, crystal chandeliers, polyphones, pictures and credenzas.
		I am tired." She falls back on vulnerability, or responds with wit, skating past simplistic psychiatric observations labeling her autistic and emerging with her marvelous mystique intact.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117927403?categoryid=33 (875 words)

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