Bob Hess plays 37 characters in ‘I Am My Own Wife,’ among them an East German trans woman who may have been a Soviet spy. (Photo courtesy Jason Anderson) ‘I Am My Own Wife’ brilliantly brings theater back to North Texas, albeit it remotely ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editorjones@dallasvoice.com There’s a trope of literature — or maybe it’s just dime-store psychology — that says we are all the hero of our own life story.
How could it be otherwise? We don’t, by and large, tent our fingers with an evil laugh while blotting out the sun like some ghoulish Mr.
Burns, or lock brown children in cages apart from their parents like you-know-who. If we didn’t buy our own press, how could we live with ourselves?