Pericles: An Immersive Adventure

Name: Pericles: An Immersive Adventure
Start: 2025-09-05T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-05T21:45:00-07:00
Location: Portland Center Stage at the Armory

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:45 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Portland Center Stage at the Armory | Portland, OR

Portland’s smallest theatre company teams up with its largest in an immersive high seas adventure! Join Speculative Drama, known for their immersive productions and original use of public playing spaces, tackles one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays to stage: Pericles this September in our TENTH ANNIVERSARY production!
Bringing together the vaulting ceilings and balconies of the PCS Armory's two-story lobby, stylized puppetry and paper-craft props, the absurdism of British humorist skits, and the visual style of 80s and 90s adventure films - audiences travel through the Armory lobby as we follow King Pericles on a journey through the seven seas in search of love and fortune.
Join Speculative Drama for a surrealist exploration of class dynamics, whether one can be both a good king and a good man, and the struggle between power and personal fulfillment - all through the eyes of one very unreliable narrator, John Gower.
Sleep No More meets The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in this ambitious and innovative tenth anniversary show. Don’t miss your chance to set sail with us this September!
All tickets pay-what-you-will. 100% of ticket sales and donations go directly to cast and crew. Press comps available please contact [email protected]
Portland Center Stage Armory Lobby
128 NW 11th Avenue
$5-40
September 5th - 21st
Friday/Saturdays 7:30pm, Sundays 5:30pm
Industry and LGBTQIA+ Affinity Night Tuesday, 9/16 - 7:30pm
Speculative Drama is a program under Misfit Academy, a performance oriented 501(c)3 and all donations are tax-deductible.
A note on accessibility:
Masks are heavily encouraged and we will have N95 masks available at the door. Anyone wearing an N95 mask will receive a special thank you gift from the cast and crew!
Performers test twice weekly for your safety - please mask for theirs if possible.
Financial and physical accommodations are available. This performance is an immersive, roaming performance in a large indoor space with excellent ventilation. While all scenes will be audible from most areas of the lobby, audience members are encouraged to move about the space and follow the action for the best experience. The PCS Armory lobby is fully accessible including ground floor accessible gender-neutral bathrooms, elevator access to the second story lobby balcony, and scattered cafe table seating.
Performers will move throughout the venue and audience should be prepared to be within 6 foot proximity of unmasked performers and other audience members.
Please email us at [email protected] with any accommodation questions or concerns.
Co-Directors: Myrrh Larsen*, Megan Skye Hale*
Cast: Eric Island, Kencess Polidor, Zebadiah Bodine, Jon Lee, Marietta Hedges, Elizabeth Neal*, Isabella Buckner*, Percival Eleanor Ambrose Charles St. Joan Walter, Alex Gunter, and JJ Hawkins
Stage Manager: Vinisa Cirigo
Costume Design: Megan Skye Hale*
Sound and Lighting Design: Myrrh Larsen*
Social Media Coordinator: Elizabeth Neal*
Speculative Drama Artistic Director: Megan Skye Hale*, Creative and Technical Director: Myrrh Larsen*
*indicates Speculative Drama company member
Speculative Drama aims to reclaim the relevance of myths, fairy tales, and classical texts through immersive, live theatrical performances. Our goal is to better reflect the diversity of the communities which we serve, and to show fellow people of marginalized identities that we, too, have a place in the classics. Through movement theatre, immersive staging, and site-specific production in an ongoing collaboration with local underground performance venue The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, we explore the intersection of classic stories and unconventional storytelling. Combining the principles of environmental theatre, rich and immersive soundscapes, and an extremely intimate setting, we create an atmosphere of inclusion and innovation while honoring and maintaining the original texts or source materials.