Adapted from his own 1998 off-Broadway musical, writer-director John Cameron Mitchell also stars as genderqueer East German glam-rocker Hedwig Schmidt in the trailblazing cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Our heroine tells the story of her life through song – from humble beginnings listening to pop music on the radio with her head in the oven, through a botched sex-change operation, until finally transforming herself into the ‘internationally ignored song stylist’ and front woman of her band The Angry Inch.