Hedwig and the Angry Inch at AS220 Black Box

So happy to be back at AS220 and playing a film that holds a dear spot in my heart! I remember watching this for the first time in high school. There was this punk girl named Kate who just transferred to our school. And she must have seen something in me and my friend because she invited us over to her house to watch movies on a regular basis. This was one she showed us one day, and afterwards I was like [starry eyes emoji].

I always love using a Criterion description if there is one, so I'll do that here: With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.” The film tells Hedwig’s story through her music, an eclectic assortment of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of music-video fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hard-charging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll.

Join us on Sunday, January 11th for a 7:00pm screening of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the AS220 Black Box theater. Doors open at 6:45pm, and we'll start the movie around 7:00ish. For anyone interested, we'll go to the AS220 bar afterwards to hang out (or someplace else downtown depending on the mood). I know this is super close to the Gremlins event, but I have to schedule it here because I'll be MIA for a little bit getting a septoplasty.

This is a ticketed event, and tickets are $7 each. You can pay with cash or card at the door. AS220 will soon have a preorder link up as well if you want to go down that route. Feel free to drop a comment if you get lost or have any questions. The Black Box theater is located at 95 Empire Street in downtown Providence, to the right of the AS220 bar.

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