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John Cameron Mitchell’s film Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) tells the story of Hansel, an East German youth; his transformation into Hedwig, a transsexed1 performer of punk rock music; and her2 attempts to achieve love and self-acceptance. According to Stephen Trask, the composer and songwriter of Hedwig, Plato’s Symposium provided the source material:
When John and I started working together, the first thing that we did was we walked to a bookstore and he bought me Plato’s Symposium… and he gave it to me and said, “Read this—there’s a story in there I want you to adapt.”3
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Garcia, L.F. (2015). John Cameron Mitchell’s Aristophanic Cinema: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001). In: Cyrino, M.S., Safran, M.E. (eds) Classical Myth on Screen. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137486035_15
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