25 October | 19:00 – Metropolis Theatre, Olga Tudorache Hall
Berlin of 1988, Hansel Schmidt becomes Hedwig Robinson following a failed gender-affirming surgery in order to flee to America. The Berlin Wall falls shortly after, and Hedwig continues to search for freedom and love all his life.
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By: John Cameron Mitchell
Translation: Carmen Stanciu
Music and lyrics: Stephen Trask
Lyrics translation: Alex Ștefănescu
Cast:
HEDWIG: Lucian Ionescu
IITZHAK: Crina Matei
THE BAND “The Angry Inch”:
Backing Vocals: Irina Cărămizaru, Cristina Danu
Piano: Johnny Bica
Battery: Andrei Paraschiv
Guitar: Ciprian Pop
Bass guitar: Vlad Vedeș
Direction, costumes and choreography: Răzvan Mazilu
Stage design: Adriana Grand
Original music: Stephen Trask
Light design: Marian Iancu
Producer:Stela Popescu Theatre Bucharest
Duration: 1h 30 min (no intermission)
Recommended age: 18+
Performance in Romanian with English surtitles
Continuing his constant research in musical theatre, Răzvan Mazilu constructs a world balancing on the borderline between sordidness and kitsch, a world in which the marginalized, the people living on the outskirts of history, build their spaces of artistic expression, impossible to fit into fixed limits. Hedwig and the Angry Inch has the poetic and political vibrancy of a transfiguring search for the self, in the name of the freedom to shatter any barriers, anything that seems impossible to face and to confront. The show is the glam & queer story of the transformation of a 16-year-old teenager from East Berlin into a star. A star for whom existence has one single meaning: his quest for love. (the NTF curators’ motivation)
Photo credits: Andrei Gindac and Livia Vișănescu
