Speculative Drama and Susurrations Present:
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Angelo’s – 4620 SE Hawthorne Blvd
$5-40, ages 21+
PWYW Preview January 6th, 7pm show
Wed-Sat January 10-20th, 7pm show
Digital Performances January 26th – 7pm, 27th – 11am, 28th – 5pm
https://rsvpdx.ticketspice.com/speculative-drama-presents-twelfth-night
Feste meets Fargo in this post-holiday Christmas comedy! Speculative Drama, known for their immersive theatrical performances, teams up with locally owned veteran dive bar Angelo’s on Hawthorne and 46th for a unique production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Evoking the feeling of “Oregon Shakespeare Festival meets Sleep No More” this fully immersive event follows the drunks, Dukes, and accidental drag kings of Illyria as they fall in, and out of love through a series of hijinks, hiccups, and holiday mayhem in a small town where “everybody knows your name”.
Opening ON Twelfth Night with a special preview showing, come down on the 6th of January and mention “epiphany” at the door for a holiday treat!
All tickets pay-what-you-will. 100% of ticket sales and donations go directly to cast and crew. Press comps available please contact speculative.drama@gmail.com
21+ event due to venue.
A note on accessibility: While our performances are generally mask-required, this is not possible for this show. Masks are heavily encouraged and we will have N95 masks available at the door.
Performers test twice weekly for your safety – please mask for theirs!
If you are unable to attend due to our current show’s mask policy or any other barriers to in person attendance, we offer digitally accessible performances!
Digital shows feature live elements not seen at the in-person shows, integrated with an audience POV stream of the performance.
Financial and physical accommodations are available. Accessibility information: The venue is largely accessible to mobility devices and has two single stall gendered restrooms and one single stall gender neutral restroom. Performers will move throughout the venue and audience should be prepared to follow them and be within 6 foot proximity of unmasked performers and other audience members. The entire show can be heard from anywhere in the bar and padded seating is amply available. Please email us at speculative.drama@gmail.com to reserve a stationary seat with the best views or for any other accommodation questions.
Director: Myrrh Larsen*
Assistant Director: Emilie Weidlich
Cast: David Bellis-Squires, Megan Skye Hale*, Gillian Wildfire, Rachel Routh, Isabella Buckner*, Ezra Veenstra, Ariel Puls, Elizabeth Neal*, Jenny Donaldson, Matthew Sunderland
Stage Manager: Vinisa Cirigo
Movement/Intimacy and Costume Design: Megan Skye Hale*
Sound and Lighting Design: Myrrh Larsen*
Props Design: Isabella Buckner*
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.
