I Am My Own Wife is Doug Wright’s stunning one man play based on his conversations with German Charlotte von Mahlsdorf about her life as an openly gay transvestite during both the Nazi and communist regimes. As one man depicts forty characters; the play reveals Charlotte in youth, the murder of her father, the deal she signs with the Stasi (Ministry for State Security of East Germany) to inform on her friends and family and culminates with her death at the Gründerzeit Museum.
