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Title: Doug Wright’s ‘Wife’: A gripping story
Post by: Natasha on January 21, 2008, 05:02:30 AM
Doug Wright's 'Wife': A gripping story

http://www.examiner.com/a-1170539~Doug_Wright_s__Wife___A_gripping_story.html
by Greg Archer
01/21/2008

The Tony Award-winning work by Doug Wright finds Nance, who's also NCTC conservatory director, clad only in a simple dark robe, a headdress and soft-white pearls as he takes on more than 35 characters, none more beguiling than the protagonist — the late Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who managed to survive two of history's worst calamities: Nazism and Communism.