‘I Am My Own Wife’ at Red Barn

SPECIAL TO KONK LIFE

Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval St., is presenting the Pulitzer Prize Winning “I Am My Own Wife for a 10-day run beginning March 5.

For tickets, call the Red Barn Box Office at 305-296-9911 or go to www.redbarntheatre.com.

Group prices and “Dinner and a Show” with the Pier House and The Hard Rock Café are also available.

The play is written by Doug Wright based on true story of German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi and communist regimes in East Berlin as a transgender person. The play premiered Off-Broadway in 2003 at Playwrights Horizons, and opened on Broadway later that year. Wright received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work.

“I Am My Own Wife”  (or I Am My Own Woman) is also the English title of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf’s autobiography, first issued in 1992, translated in 1995. The play has won a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Drama League Award for Best Play and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show in addition to the Pulitzer Prize.

“I Am My Own Wife” is directed by well-known South Florida director Stuart Metzler who produced it last year with Tom Wahl in the solo role. Metzler is Artistic Director and one of the four artists who co-founded Zoetic Stage in Miami, producing contemporary plays and musicals that reflect the South Florida community and resonate universally.

Wahl reprises the role for the Red Barn production. His performance of the play at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami earned him the Carbonell Award for Best Actor and the Silver Palm Award for outstanding performance.  He has played Key West stages previously, including Dorian in Opus  at Red Barn Theatre, directed by Joy Hawkins, and other roles.  He recently spent seven months at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, adding to his more than 1,000 performances as Tony Whitcomb in the record-breaking production of “Shear Madness.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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