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" " It was von Mahlsdorf's defiance of the danger she inhabited that inspired Wright to document her life "So I saved Sundance the extra plane fares "In Jefferson's hands it became truly theatrical," Wright said Wright explained there was no play I had never done that before It's lovely to encounter this character every night on stage and have another go at figuring her out "It's a magnificent gift "She is as much an enigma to me as I hope she is to the audience," he said "It just felt thematically very correct, the notion that no matter how many characters Jefferson plays, all of them would ultimately wearing a little black dress and a string of pearls," the playwright said "It's a rare luxury to be able to work on something on-and-off for a couple of years," Mays said "I do feel a little yanked around and wiped out at the end of the evening â€â€? like 'Sybil I think that's the best way to learn, to do as many plays as you can and just blunder stupidly Wright, who didn't work on any productions with Mays while at Yale, said "we didn't truly become friends until we were forging our way in the perilous waters of the New York theater world " The sources included more than 40 hours of taped interviews Wright recorded on four separate trips to Germany â€â€? each of about six-weeks Actor's Transvestite Role Gains Attention Jul 2, 1:42 PM EST Three years ago, when actor Jefferson Mays began work on recreating the historical character of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf for Doug Wright's play "I Am My Own Wife," he wasn't thinking it might be a role that would make the New York theater community sit up and take notice " Mays is still not sure exactly what to make of the main character "I'm so glad the response has been so positive to it " Wright agreed But it's such a reward, in and of itself, to be doing this The late revelation that she may have been a collaborator with the East German secret police clouded her heroism Many characters appear in very fast succession "We realized the second or third day of rehearsal," Mays said, "this kind of makes sense, given the multiplicity of personas she had to adopt to navigate her way through these dangerous times There they created the second act He only had boxes and boxes of original research about an antique collector born Lothar Berfelde, who lived in East Berlin as a woman (Charlotte) under the intimidation of the Nazis and later, during the Cold War, the Stasi secret police "I'm letting him answer some of my business calls and go on a few of my first dates," he joked in a telephone interview, which was presumably authentic , majored in the classics and art history, but did not participate in the school's well-regarded theater program Enter Mays " The initial decision to limit the play to one actor was borne of pragmatism more than anything "We just started reading through the archival material," Wright said It does feel like a break, of sorts," Mays said, looking slightly revolutionary in a dark sports jacket and beret She died in 2002 I'm going to Utah to play a 65-year-old East German transvestite,'" the actor said " The one-man show, which is enjoying a not-so-quietly successful run at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons, began to take shape in 2000 Blacker assured him to just bring a director he trusted and an actor he really loved That was when Robert Blacker of the Sundance Institute in Utah called Wright to invite him to a three-week program to develop the piece "It was astonishing to write so closely with one actor in mind Instead, it was the irony of the situation that struck him '" "I also have this feeling of, 'Where am I in this play?'" He added, "I am responsible to this historical figure and I'm responsible to a living playwright and a friend, who I impersonate nightly But do you want three weeks in the beautiful mountains of Utah?'" Mays had already worked on a few of Wright's plays, including the 1995 "Quills," which made a splash off-Broadway and was later made into a feature film "So I called Jefferson and said, 'Look, I have this wild idea for a play and I have no idea what shape it's going to take "It made no sense to me, so of course I had to do it " In the three weeks at Sundance in 2000, Wright and Mays worked together with director Moises Kaufman ("Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" and "The Laramie Project") to carve out a rough draft of the first act "Since I hadn't written a single word, it would be greedy to ask for more than one actor," Wright said Wright, who went to Germany to attend her memorial service, said he tried while von Mahlsdorf was alive to persuade her to fly to the United States to see the play performed "I was in the very awkward predicament of asking an actor to commit to a role that hadn't yet been written," Wright said " It is in those waters that Mays, a previously little-known veteran of off-Broadway and regional theater, now finds his latest performance being hailed by critics as extraordinary "My first reaction was, 'God, this is just so crazy " By the end of his time at Yale, Mays' love of theater had eclipsed his academic interests and he went on to study acting at the University of California-San Diego "And, as a result, I think transvestism becomes normal instead of exotic "Just a few weeks here and there essentially " Wright is impressed with Mays' depiction of him Wright had been there a few years studying theater and art history when Mays entered as a freshman He thinks she would have received it well "But I think in the end she would acknowledge it for the love letter that it is intended to be The biggest challenge of being the only actor, he said, is continually keeping scenes fresh and new But her fear of flying prevented her from doing so '" But as the play began to develop, the men warmed to the idea "And that's the thrilling thing about playing this role is that I have made no choices in it "There were tons of productions every year â€â€? 80 to 100 in squash courts and dining halls "I Am My Own Wife" is the first one-man play Mays has performed "Some of the content may cast a challenging light on her nature," he said " Besides Mays' portrayal of the complex and enigmatic von Mahlsdorf, he takes on about 40 other personas in the play â€â€? of widely disparate origins and dispositions â€â€? including that of Wright In 2002, they brought the play to Chicago, where it was tweaked and polished The two first became aware of one another in the mid-1980s as undergraduates at Yale University Mays, who grew up in Clinton, Conn "But the cast gets along well," he said with a smile It made sense to have one actor do it There's no room anywhere for my own neutral, natural voice â€â€? the way I speak "I did theater extracurricularly," recalled Mays, 38 "It's like having your head picked up and smashed nightly," Mays said Slowly, from those sources the play started to emerge After the preliminary work at Sundance, the men revisited the work the following year at the La Jolla Playhouse in California "Transcripts of tapes I had made with Charlotte, letters we had exchanged, documents she had given me over the years, newspaper accounts of her life ' But usually what comes out of my mouth is, 'No, he's really handsome All five of us are pretty blown away by this kind of attention, let me tell you "I'm here to be His servant "It's all very surreal," says Kressley, who is also a nationally ranked equestrian "I mean, you can't get more Middle America than Louisville, Kentucky Can we get your autograph?'" 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