I am my own wife
I AM MY OWN WIFE was a great play, that involved a lot of thought and hard work. A one man play was a great idea for this story line, but it was hard to follow at times. I wonder why Doug Wright chose to use only one individual to play all of the characters in this play? Could he have used more than one person and kept the story the same? I think he could have, but as a viewer I know I would not have gotten the same effect that I did with just Jefferson Mays. His Acting was just phenomenal, he did an exceptional job. Mays instrument defiantly had to be his voice, he changed it so often, I even got a little confused at times. He spoke strongly, and made the audience believe that he was actually several different people. Sometimes even little gesture implied that he was acting as a different character. He was also very in touch with all of his characters making it even more believable that he was actually a different person. The overall theme was survival of Nazi Germany and Communism as a Transvestite. There were many hints that directly or indirectly pointed to this, such as the picture of Charlotte as a young boy with a lion on each side of him as if he were embracing them. The lights, the actual speaking interview
It was a huge part of the story because it made Charlotte who he was. He accepted the furniture the way it was and that is how he wanted to be accepted, for who he was a transvestite. At the end of the performance Doug asks Charlotte if he had restored any of the old furniture over time. I also wonder why Wright did not really use the character of him to show the difference in change when it came to gay, lesbian or transvestites over the period of time. I did not get the symbolism of the Phonographs or Clocks except that he collected them. The play was very believable, even though there is a very tiny part of me that believes there is more to the story. He said that he never listened to the news, which added to the story. s, as well as the talk show during the play all pointed to the survival of a transvestite in a hard time. The use of the very tiny furniture in a box at the very beginning and the end of the play just gave me as a viewer a reminder that Charlotte's life was more important than the museum that he had made. Was this picture real or was it a twist. At the time of this story this would have been very hard, because so much was taking place within the country and government. I realized some of the effects that the lights were trying to make, such as when there was trouble and the red lights came on the stage, really made it seem more life like. After hearing that Charlotte may not have been all that the performance implied, I wonder why Wright did not want to try to discover the truth and incorporate into the play somehow. In one of the reviews I read it was mentioned that this story could very well have been a tale or figment of Charlotte's imagination.
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OWN WIFE,
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