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{PDF EPUB} Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell. The podcast analysing and tearing down the walls surrounding Hedwig & The Angry Inch chapter-by-chapter! Hedwig - Chapter 22 - End (Part Two - with John Cameron Mitchell and Kahla Victorious) Whether you like it or not, we're back with Chapter 22 - PART 2! The journey is complete. Hedwig has been through hell and back but she's finally ready for that walk to freedom and release. To interpret this ending for you we are bringing a range of guests across two parts! Some familiar with the film, some not. Hedwig - Chapter 22 - End (Part One - with Vanda Miss Joaquim and Anita Piss) Whether you like it or not, we're back with Chapter 22! A new day dawns as Hedwig walks into her symbolic rebirth. To interpret this ending for you we are bringing a range of guests across two parts! Some familiar with the film, some not so familiar, some intimately familiar! We want the whole spectrum, baby. It's what. Cookie Consent and Choices. NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media, sponsorship, analytics, and other vendors or service providers. See details. You may click on “ Your Choices ” below to learn about and use cookie management tools to limit use of cookies when you visit NPR’s sites. You can adjust your cookie choices in those tools at any time. If you click “ Agree and Continue ” below, you acknowledge that your cookie choices in those tools will be respected and that you otherwise agree to the use of cookies on NPR’s sites. 20 Years After ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch,’ John Cameron Mitchell Is Just as Radical as Ever. "Hedwig" taught generations of queer people that gender and desire were fluid. For the Criterion release, her creator remembers her origins. Jun 28, 2019 3:30 pm. Share This Article Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Print Talk. John Cameron Mitchell. I’ve never seen someone work an apple crate quite like John Cameron Mitchell. It’s early 2015, and two weeks into his celebrated return to the iconic role and show he created with composer Stephen Trask, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Mitchell had sustained a knee injury that severely limited his movement — especially in 4-inch fuck-me pumps. But, just like when I saw Patti LuPone do “Rose’s Turn” in Isotoners, Mitchell soldiered on, knee brace and all. Resting his leg on an apple crate, he invented a story that Hedwig had been attacked (perks of being the writer), and the whole injury seemed to make him even looser with the clever one-liners than usual. “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the radical rock opera about an East German cabaret singer who’s undergone a forced sex change, first debuted Off Broadway in 1998. Mitchell began developing the character in the mid-‘90s at Squeezebox, a since-closed drag club that boasted drop-in shows by the likes of Debbie Harry and Cherie Currie. During a lively discussion between Mitchell and John Waters at the Provincetown Film Festival earlier this month, Waters called it the “last good gay bar in New York.” Related. 5 Criterion Collection Movie Releases to Pre-Order This Month 5 New Criterion Collection Releases to Pre-Order This Month. Related. 'The White Lotus': Everything You Need to Know About the HBO Series The 35 Best LGBTQ Movies of the 21st Century. “Hedwig” reached cult status with the release of the film version in 2001, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival that year to rapturous reviews and multiple awards. A new 4k digital restoration joined the Criterion Collection this week, complete with Mitchell’s audio commentary and an eighty-five-minute documentary tracing the project’s origins. Though it’s hard to imagine, Mitchell told Waters he was terrified the first time he did Hedwig. “Stephen Trask was head of the house band and we were working on the piece, and he said, ‘You can do a gig here but you have to do a female role, because it’s a drag club,’” recalled Mitchell. “I was really scared of my feminine side, because it was just drilled into you that it was the worst thing. So, doing that first gig, I was so nervous, and I had tucked for no reason because nobody could see below my waist.” John Cameron Mitchell kissing “Hedwig” composer Stephen Trask. “Hedwig” became a symbol of creative freedom for a generation of queer people just beginning to explore alternative expressions of gender, sexuality, and desire. One queer friend said “Hedwig” was formative in her understanding of her sexuality: “That film corroborated my feeling that gender and desire were more fluid than everyone else was making it seem.” For many trans people, it was the first positive portrayal of a trans character they had ever seen onscreen, though Mitchell disputes the label. “I’ve never thought of Hedwig as trans, because of the coercion,” Mitchell said. “Hansel, the boy, was quite comfortable being the feminine gay boy that he was. He was, in a way, forced into a kind of mutilation. There was no choice. There was no agency. It was the patriarchy saying, ‘You’ve got to do this to be married, to get out, to be free.’ So to me, it’s more of a statement about the binarchy.” He added: “Many trans, non- binary, queer, straight people have said it felt activating for them at a certain age. I’ve never, from people I’ve actually met, had any negative [reaction], because it’s a freeing thing.” Even by today’s standards, “Hedwig” feels just as radical as it did twenty years ago. Her punk rock drag, swoon-worthy melodies, and anti-fascist spirit are just as vital and relevant to today’s political landscape. “It’s a metaphor and it’s a fairy tale. Also, on stage, it’s played by all genders. I welcome all genders. It’s a mask. Drag is a mask that you put on. It’s more about drag than a trans thing.” At the time of the first stage show, drag was incendiary enough for many mainstream audiences. Mitchell recalls Rosie O’Donnell having to fight her producers to show a number from “Hedwig” on her daytime talk show. David Letterman, however, fought against inviting “Hedwig” to “Late Night.” “I rip the wig off at the end of ‘Tear Me Down,’ and during rehearsal a voice from the booth said ‘Um, could you please not remove the wig during the song?’,” Mitchell remembers of the “Late Night” performance. “So I remove the wig during the song when we did the show and they cut it out. Letterman usually comes down and shakes your hand, but he didn’t shake mine.” Always looking ahead to the next project, Mitchell has generously relinquished creative ownership of his baby. Though he’s recently returned to the part for a concert tour, during the 2015 Broadway revival, the role of Hedwig was inhabited by Neil Patrick Harris, Michael C. Hall, Andrew Rannells, and Taye Diggs, to say nothing of the countless other productions over the years. “To me, it’s like an ex-wife that I love and I’m glad we’re apart. Or a red-headed stepchild that I kind of raised but kicked out early. I’m happy for her to be working elsewhere with other people playing it,” said Mitchell. A working actor from a young age, Mitchell quickly discovered he preferred directing. “There were just so many dumb directors,” he told Waters. “Or they were good at one thing and not another. They would be good at visuals and bad with acting, good with acting but bad at script. I had good ones too, for sure, but I kept thinking, ‘Oh God, I wish they would just do that.’” Less embraced by the mainstream, but just as revelatory in queer circles, is Mitchell’s provocative second feature, 2006’s erotic comedy “Shortbus.” The film involves a sex therapist who’s never had an orgasm, a sex salon run by famed New York cabaret artist Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, and features multiple un-simulated sex scenes. Mitchell performs oral sex on a woman in one orgy scene. “My Mom was delighted that I finally ate pussy and proved it on 60 millimeter film,” he said. When Waters asked if he could make “Shortbus” today, Mitchell was unsure. “At the time, our only problem was from the religious right. Now I don’t know if I’d be able to finance ‘Shortbus’ because maybe as a gay man having a straight Asian woman having an orgasm in front of me would be improper.” Mitchell attributes the five-year gap between his hugely successful debut and his riskier second feature to his discerning taste. “I was offered a lot of things. I’ve been offered dozens of movies to direct since then, and I’m just very picky,” Mitchell said during a phone interview. “I started directing later in life, so I have standards. I’d rather do something I care about for a lot less money than something for a ton of money that I don’t care about because then I become impatient and testy and I don’t like the person I am when I’m doing work I don’t like.” His high standards led to him directing Nicole Kidman to an Oscar nomination in 2010’s “Rabbit Hole.” (He says Kidman watched “Shortbus,” never said anything about it, but gave him the job.) Kidman worked with Mitchell again on his third feature, 2017’s “How to Talk to Girls at Parties,” a sci-fi punk epic based on a Neil Gaiman short story and starring Elle Fanning.
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