POSTPONED—Hedwig and the Angry Inch
POSTPONED: This screening, originally scheduled for January 19, has been postponed. We apologize for the inconvenience. For updates, please join our email list (sign up HERE) or follow us on social media (FB or IG).
DESCRIPTION:
“Hilarious, heart-breaking, and has a phenomenal, timelessly cool, soundtrack.”–BBC
Bringing their signature creation from stage to screen, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask tell the story of Hedwig, who was raised as a boy in East Berlin and undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as a rock diva. Telling Hedwig’s story through original punk anthems and power ballads and matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a hard-charging song cycle, tender character study, and tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll.
Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.