CULTure Babylon: Manic Musicals

Musicals might seem a safe genre for Sunday afternoon television, but it also has its share of the weird and the wonderful. Kit Lewis of CULTure Babylon will take you through a brief history of some of the more unusual musicals – from blockbuster successes to forgotten masterpieces. The talk introduces a screening of the 2001 cult musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Hedwig is born a man on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall and is co-erced into gender surgery to get to the USA. Abandoned in a trailer park in Kansas she begins a journey into music, wigs, true identity and redemption. Funny, moving and brilliant. (Certificate 15.) www.culturebabylon.com/chillers