The rock show Hedwig and her Angry Inch should perform in Prague in February
“The original performance is genre-wise between stand-up, theater and rock concert. Its authors are actor, screenwriter, director John Cameron Mitchell and composer, lyricist Stephen Trask. Musically, he draws mainly from glam rock and punk, “said Jaroslav Panenka on behalf of the creator.
The second character of the performance is the vocalist Ytziak, whose authors let a woman play in the name of blurred gender lines. Actress and singer Vendula Příhodová, known as a finalist for the Voice of Czechoslovakia, will perform Ytziaka in the Prague production. The libretto was directed and translated by Pavel Košatka, and the lyrics were reshaped into Czech by the poet and lyricist Petr Soukup.
Hedwig was born in the late 1960s in East Germany as a man who underwent an illegal gender reassignment on the threshold of adulthood to take advantage of the Iron Curtain offer in the free Western world. However, the operation was not successful and the patient was left between the sexes forever.
American critics called Hedwig one of the most unique characters to ever enter the stage. She is neither an activist nor a transsexual, the operation did not help her to achieve the desired identity, on the contrary, she must expose her new identity to the trauma of mutilation. “I definitely wanted her world to be a world where identifications and categories are changeable and confusing, where stereotypes of male and female roles are broken. But I don’t perceive her as a trans. She just wanted to find love and freedom, instead she was crippled by the communist regime. Only then does its real transformation begin. Hedwig is born as a performer, an artist. ” .
Hedwig and her Angry Inch premiered off-Broadway in 1998 and immediately won a prestigious professional award. In 2000, she arrived in London’s West End and in 2014 directly on Broadway, where she was awarded eight Tony Theater Award nominations, four of which she received, among other things, for the best newly staged musical. Stephen Trask’s music was nominated for a Grammy. The Hedwig show has won a number of other awards in its history, including trophies from the Sundance and Berlinale festivals and a Golden Globe nomination for its 2001 film version.
After Broadway, the show embarked on a successful US tour, co-produced by Los Bowie in David. There is also a large list of other studies not only in North and South America, but also on other continents. Hedwig was also Neil Patrick Harris, who won a Tony Award for his performance in a Broadway production, or Michael C. Hall, best known in our country as the serial Dexter.