I am my Own Wife Jefferson Mays is particularly impressive as Charlotte, but also manages to be believable as a reptilian talk-show host, dozens of different male Americans, each with a different regional accent, a Brit, a Japanese, and lots of Germans. He brings these characters to life while wearing Charlotte's unflattering black dress and pearls with a headscarf... Like all good raconteurs, Charlotte told her stories well, usually in the same words and with the same inflections every time. Mays' performance is, and is meant to be, a tour de force.
The Daily Express thanks to Mays's increasingly creepy performance, with its gathering hints of psychiatric disturbance, it makes for spellbinding theatre.
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