Week Three: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Fuch’s Questions:

The scenario in this musical is the recycled set of the disastrous-fictional musical “Hurt Locker: The Musical” which recalls the Hurt Locker movie scenes of the remains of a Middle Eastern street bombarded and in ruins. This space feels dirty, with piercing edges and shapes, it is undesirable and murky.

The stage kind of places us at the beginning of Hedwig's (Hansel, 26-year-old) life story –a bomb crater near the Berlin wall on the Eastside in 1988- but as Hedwig is sequentially recounting her love story, time moves away from the stage-set and pass through Hedwig’s heartfelt memories. This space of time sounds agitated within the rock roll music and the lyrics that linearly interweave Hedwig recount until the end of her storytelling when she/he walks into a bright light.

It is not clear how much time has passed in this story, but if I refer to the original version of this musical which was first performed in 1997, then it would be approximately 9 years of Hedwig's life.

By carefully following the trajectory of this time we are placed in a private and tempestuous world of the fragmented life of Hedwig, the tension of these fragments denotes the struggle resulting from the physical and emotional laceration that transforms a Hansel into a Hedwig.

"I GAVE A PIECE TO MY MOTHER

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I GAVE A PIECE TO MY MAN

I GAVE A PIECE TO THE ROCK START

HE TOOK THE GOOD STUFF AND RAN "

Hedwig's redemption befalls unexpectedly when she hears her lover the infamous ex-lover Tommy a well-known rock icon, pleading for her forgiveness.

"FORGIVE ME,

FOR I DID NOT KNOW" ...

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