I Am My Own Wife Study Guide

In the first five sections of his one-man show detailing the life of celebrated and reviled transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Doug Wright explores all that went into his discovery of his play's subject. As the play opens, the audience is introduced to Charlotte. She is a man of about sixty-five and wears a black housedress, a scarf over her hair and a strand of pearls. She enters, leaves and returns carrying a large antique Edison phonograph, which she sets on a small table. (read more)