Shroman Shmoliday
June 16 at 9:30PM

Creative Team

dramaturgy & production management by Brita Thorne

featuring choreography by Michael Parmelee

poster/illustration by Jenna Rothstein (ig: @ihaveacooldog)

Description

Shroman Shmoliday, written and performed by Willie Filkowski, is a new, work-in-progress solo performance composed of autobiographical storytelling, poetry, dance/movement, pop music, heavy-handed fictionalization, and low-budget spectacle. Shroman Shmoliday excavates Filkowski's personal affinity for Robert Rauschenberg as a fellow artist, queer person, and Southwest Floridian, while also offering a queer fever dream that attempts to correct the record. Shroman Shmoliday offers a poetic and fictionalized rom-com that reinvents the (real) trip that Rauschenberg took with friend & lover Cy Twombly in 1952, a trip that art history largely records as a “formative,” if platonic, time in the artists’ lives. Shroman Shmoliday aims to create a vision of the smutty, gay, romantic trip that Filkowski hopes and wishes it was, drawing inspiration from the film Roman Holiday, which, coincidentally, Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn were in town filming at the same time as Twombly and Rauschenberg’s trip.

Content Warning: adult language, frank talk of sex

*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to display proof of two doses of an approved covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.