…(holy, holey, wholly)

…(holy, holey, wholly) celebrates the sacred, whorish and multiplicitious experience of female pleasure through a contemporary rendering of La Traviata. Originally in Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic opera Violetta, a sex worker, is undone by the “privileges” of her work, shamed for her empowerment and the connections she’s built with it.

…(holy, holey, wholly) posits Rebecca Lillich / Krüger’s life alongside Violetta’s, our holes being holy, ourselves being whole. A text and movement based solo in Lillich/Krüger’s style of riddling, …(holy, holey, wholly) takes its basis from a fictitious 2013 story about a one-night stand, a humorous story used to expose the crunchy and illicit feelings of being wanted versus being owned. The story becomes a performative basis for renegotiating pleasure, who it belongs to and a soft look at “the body, where all the splits in Western culture occur.”- Carolee Schneeman.

…(holy, holey, wholly) was premiered at Hollins University in 2017.

Amsterdams Theaterhuis (2024)

Plein Theater (2025)

Original Costume by Victoria Lillich.

Sound score by Rebecca Lillich//Krüger