Sat, Apr 4 at Midnight: Introduction from Virginia Creeper, the invasive southern species | BUY TICKETS
Part of Midnight Movies
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. (Synopsis courtesy of the Criterion Collection)
About the Speaker:
Virginia has been gender-bending and shapeshifting since 2018, performing on stages across Nashville and L.A. They are the casting director for Nashville’s Rocky Horror shadowcast, Little Morals, and the producer of the Bowie Bash and The Kitsch Kat Club. You can catch them performing monthly at the Lipstick Lounge with the Music City Fuckettes. They are the invasive southern species: Virginia Creeper!
