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Time Warp @ DoctoberFest
Phoenix Theatres Savoy 16 + IMAX
232 Burwash Ave.
Savoy, Illinois
(217) 530-4671
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DoctoberFest, a new event from The Chambana Film Society, will be featuring over a dozen documentary screenings throughout the month, mostly high profile theatrical releases that did not play in the CU area. Most of them have played at world-class film festivals like Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca.
Fifty years ago, The Rocky Horror Picture Show burst onto the scene and blew everyone’s minds — a glorious, campy, sexy, utterly bizarre midnight ritual that turned movie-going into something you did rather than just watched.
For misfits, dreamers and the delightfully weird, Rocky Horror became their sanctuary. And for the queer community especially, it was something even more powerful: the one place you could feel completely, gloriously free. Today, that freedom has never felt more precious — or more fragile.
Lights up on Rock Springs, Wyoming — a dusty boomtown in one of the country’s most conservative states — where 25-year-old Kenny Starling has done something audacious: opened the first drag and queer theater company in town. Their debut show? A shadow cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Kenny’s mission: to bring queer visibility, joy, and acceptance to the high desert plains of Wyoming.
Time Warp follows Kenny and his extraordinary cast as they rehearse, discover, and transform — lacing up corsets, stepping into heels, and finding that every performance is equal parts joy and defiance.
Wyoming calls itself the “Equality State,” but Kenny believes his fearless cast — and the audiences who show up — might finally make that true, at least inside the Broadway Theater on a Friday night.
Time Warp is a celebration of joyful self-expression, found family, and the radical, timeless act of being yourself.
Tickets $12. Please purchase from the Chambana Film Society.