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Name: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Author: John Cameron Mitchell

📘 Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell

Brilliantly innovative and oddly endearing, Hedwig and the Angry Inch―inspired by Plato’s Symposium―is the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, the victim of a gruesomely botched sex-change operation, as dazzlingly recounted by Hedwig (née Hansel) herself in the form of a lounge act, backed by the rock band The Angry Inch.

First publish date: 2000

Authors: John Cameron Mitchell

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