得主：I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
劇作家小傳：
won an Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting and the
Kesselring Award for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club
for his play Quills. He went on to write the screenplay adaptation, making
his motion picture debut. The film was named Best Picture by the National
Board of Review and nominated for three Academy Awards. His screenplay was
nominated for a Golden Globe Award and received the Paul Selvin Award from
the Writers Guild of America. Doug's stage work has been produced at New York
Theatre Workshop, Lincoln Center, WPA Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Wilma, Woolly
Mammoth, McCarter Theater and La Jolla. Titles include The Stonewater Rapture,
Interrogating the Nude, watbanaland, Buzzsaw Berkeley and Unwrap Your Candy.
Doug has been published three times in The Best Short Plays series and his
work has appeared in The Paris Review. He's a member of the Dramatists Guild,
the Writers Guild of America, East and the Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers. He serves on the board of the New York Theatre Workshop.
其他入圍的是
Man from Nebraska by Tracy Letts
Omnium Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
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作者: Escude (我有迷魂招不得) 看板: Theatre
標題: Gay playwright wins Pulitzer for drama
時間: Wed Apr 7 15:17:02 2004
Gay playwright wins Pulitzer for drama
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Christopher Lisotta, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network
SUMMARY: Playwright Doug Wright has won the Pulitzer Prize in drama for
"I Am My Own Wife," about a real-life transgender East German who survived
the Nazi regime and the communist era.
Playwright Doug Wright has won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in drama for his
one-person show "I Am My Own Wife," about a real-life transgender East German
who survived both the Nazi regime and the repressive Communist era.
"I'm weak with exhaustion, but it's happy exhaustion, like the feeling you
get after a nice, long hot bath," Wright told Gay.com/PlanetOut.com Network
about his reaction to Monday's Pulitzer announcement.
Wright, 41, worked on the play for more than a decade. In the early 1990s
Wright traveled to Berlin, where he was introduced to Charlotte von Mahlsdorf,
who by then was in her early sixties. Born Lothar Berfelde, von Mahlsdorf
lived as a woman, and became known for her museum-quality collection of
antique furniture. The meeting led to Wright interviewing von Mahlsdorf for
hundreds of hours over the course of several years. She died in 2002 at the
age of 74.
"I would go so far as to say that Charlotte grew up in a regime where
discrimination was enshrined in law," he explained. Wright said he thought
President Bush's stand on the Federal Marriage Amendment and the push to
change the U.S. Constitution showed that the issue of limiting rights was
still alive and well. "It makes the play particularly cautionary," he added.
The play was workshopped in San Diego in 2002, and later shown in Chicago
and New York before coming to Broadway's Lyceum Theater in December 2003.
The current production stars Jefferson Mays, who plays more than 30 characters,
and is directed by Moises Kaufman ("The Laramie Project").
"I Am My Own Wife" also explores whether von Mahlsdorf was an East German
spy, and the nature of personal narratives and lies people tell themselves
and others. The New York Times called the play "the most stirring new work
to appear on Broadway this fall" in a Dec. 4 review.
"Charlotte paid a very provocative and controversial price, but I do think
she maintained her singularity in the most repressive regime the West has
ever produced, and that's an achievement in and of itself," Wright said.
But Wright stressed that von Mahlsdorf's unique story and her sexual identity
didn't make the play an overly difficult sell. He also noted he didn't want
to make von Mahlsdorf a saint.
"I think that's what makes the piece more accessible," he explained. "I'm
neither lionizing nor demonizing Charlotte. I hope that we've moved beyond
the nature of gay theater. We are increasingly visible. Her sexuality was a
critical aspect of her nature but it was not all-defining."
In the meantime Wright is in the process of directing a staged reading while
dealing with the increased press attention of being the newest Pulitzer Prize
recipient.
"I keep calling my boyfriend every hour and saying, 'It's three o'clock and
I'm still a Pulitzer Prize winner,'" he admitted. "It's thrilling, and as a
writer it's great to be acknowledged for an unapologetically gay work. That's
really gratifying."
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