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The eyes still have it. "I Am My Own Wife" may have transferred to a big Broadway theater, but the one-man show still holds our attention, thanks to the pair of wide, glittering eyes belonging to the actor Jefferson Mays. As the German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Mays surveys his audience with a gaze that's somehow both shyly retiring and fiercely, irresistibly intense. From the instant he walks onstage - wearing a simple black frock and a string of pearls - his gaze has us under its spell.
Mays is reprising, with little visible transfer-strain, a role he already played to justly great acclaim earlier this spring, when the play had a successful run Off- Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. His performance as Charlotte, the most prominent of the many characters he portrays during the show, has an unwavering strength of focus that manages to broadcast intimacy even in the larger house of the Lyceum, where this smart, engrossing production opened last night.
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It helps, too, that Moisés Kaufman ("Gross Indecency," "The Laramie Project") has directed the show with a documentarian's investigative eye for detail. "I Am My Own Wife" doesn't so much fill the space as it does telescope our interest, picking out and holding forth one intriguing fact after another.
The genesis of the play's story is Wright's own discovery of von Mahlsdorf in the early 1990s. Though interested primarily in her as a possible subject for his next play, Wright soon discovers that von Mahlsdorf represents something much more powerful. "...I need to believe in her stories as much as she does," Wright relates near the end of the play, in one of its most clarion moments. "That Lothar Berfelde [von Mahlsdorf's birth name] navigated a path between the two most repressive regimes the Western World has ever known - the Nazis and the Communists - in a pair of heels."
Von Mahlsdorf's story is unquestionably an impressive one, moving from young Lothar's realization of his sexuality (inspired by a knowing aunt) through his violent confrontations with his father and the eventual adoption of his own new persona. Through a combination of luck, determination, and hope, von Mahlsdorf survived the Nazis and the post-World War II occupation, only to become something of a celebrity when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. But with the fame she gained when her story became known came the possibility that she cooperated with the Stasi, perhaps even informing on others, thus threatening the acceptance she had struggled a lifetime to achieve.
Wright pulls few punches in his depiction of von Mahlsdorf, though his writing overall is quite affectionate. More important to him are her small accomplishments, which are always kept in mind in the presence of clocks, gramophones, credenzas, and other furniture on the immense rear wall of Derek McLane's set. These pieces, lit in just the right way (by David Lander), highlight von Mahlsdorf's determination to protect priceless works of art from destruction and, like the period tunes sound designer Andre J. Pluess has collected, provide the right sense of time and place. In Wright's play, as in life, the past and present are inextricably intertwined.
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It helps, too, that Moisés Kaufman ("Gross Indecency," "The Laramie Project") has directed the show with a documentarian's investigative eye for detail. "I Am My Own Wife" doesn't so much fill the space as it does telescope our interest, picking out and holding forth one intriguing fact after another.
