Musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask
Mittelsächsische Theater Freiberg/Döbeln
Recommended for ages 14 and up
“Before I go, I want to sing a song someone wrote for me a long time ago. I don't know where she is now. But if you are very quiet, maybe she can hear me.”
For the sake of great love and emigration from East Berlin to the USA, young Hansel undergoes gender reassignment surgery. Hansel becomes Hedwig. Throughout her life, she remembers her former self, leaving Hedwig to float between genders. Left by her husband shortly thereafter, Hedwig scrapes by in her new home of America with low-paying jobs until she falls in love again: she writes songs for the new man, whom she sees as her completion, helping him become a celebrated superstar. When he also abandons her and runs off with her work, Hedwig embarks on her own tour with her band, “The Angry Inch”.
This play contains the following themes: homophobia, transphobia, sexism, gender reassignment, drug use, identity
