Hedwig and the Angry Inch /
On Valentine's day, 1998, Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened to rave reviews and the phenomenon that is Hedwig was born. This long-running off-Broadway smash, with its central metaphor inspired by Plato's Symposium, tells the story of "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig S...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodstock, N.Y. :
Overlook Press,
2000.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | On Valentine's day, 1998, Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened to rave reviews and the phenomenon that is Hedwig was born. This long-running off-Broadway smash, with its central metaphor inspired by Plato's Symposium, tells the story of "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, a "fourth wall-smashing, German rock & roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a gruesomely botched sex-change operation" (Time Out). This story, performed by Hedwig (ne Hansel) in the form of a rock gig, and backed by the hard-rocking band, "The Angry Inch," begins in the former East Berlin when Hansel meets Luther, an American GI who promises to take the young man back to the States on the condition that he change his sex and become Hedwig. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by John Cameron Mitchell. |
| Physical Description: | 94 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Awards: | Lambda Literary Award, 2000 |
| ISBN: | 1585670340 9781585670345 1585672955 9781585672950 |