TIME WARP

Tickets are $20 per person

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY RKO ARMY 

PARKING
Free street parking is available.

ACCESSIBILITY
Screening space wheelchair accessible.

ABOUT THE FILM: It’s a rite of passage for people all around the world — but in the small community of Rock Springs, Wyoming, the tradition of a “shadow cast” acting and singing the lines of The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the 1975 camp classic plays on a screen behind them was as unusual as seeing a feather boa in the local coal mines. That is, until Kenny Starling created the first drag and queer theatrical troupe in all of Wyoming in 2022. For the LGBTQIA+ community there, the Starling Company’s announcement that they’d be putting on Rocky Horror at a local 370-seat theater was an exuberant, full-hearted expression of queer joy. In the vivid, timely, and life-affirming documentary TIME WARP, director ALLISON SLOAN BERG captures the energy and enthusiasm that the performance and the preparation for brings to a group of people — many young, some less-young — who come out of their shells through the liberation that is a Rocky Horror shadow cast performance.

But not everyone is okay with Kenny (pronouns: any) and their cast and crew’s plans to bring Rocky Horror to Rock Springs, and there are moments of pushback by some in the town, causing worry and wariness on the part of the actors. Yet Kenny’s decision to lead with love yields surprising results — not least the impact this
time-honored valentine to self-acceptance has on the troupe, many of whom have never performed at all, much less in such a cornerstone of queer culture. At a time in American life when LGBTQIA+ people face violence, intimidation, and legal threats — especially in places where queer visibility is rare — a performance
like this, and Starling’s goal of kindness, understanding, and love, is more poignant than ever. Soon the Rocky Horror message of “Don’t dream it, be it” becomes a rallying cry for the Starling Company and the queer community of Rock Springs.