Portland’s experimental Shakespeare company, Speculative Drama, brings you an all-new original production based on the Bard’s most infamous queen, Lady Macbeth. Perched at the intersection of feminist confessional, immersive fringe show, and classical text, A Walking Shadow explores the effects of patriarchy on the interpretation of women in Shakespeare over the last 400 years, focusing on Lady Macbeth’s character in the original text versus her portrayal as a stereotype.
Part of the Bard Bites! festival, this immersive love letter to theater, music, and complex women is a one-hour multidisciplinary exploration featuring new music and writing by Speculative Drama leads Myrrh Larsen and Megan Skye Hale. A Walking Shadow follows the “fiend-like queen” through her famous sleepwalking scene, repeated and reinterpreted by breaking down the walls between actor, character, and audience. Steeped in song, blood, love, and loss, this incredible one-woman show plays for just three performances, so don’t miss your chance to catch it.
A Walking Shadow is a Pay-What-You-Are-Able world premier workshop production, part of a three-weekend Shakespeare mini-festival including a series of free Shakespeare pop-ups, Bard Bites!
Event Schedule:
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7/31 – bite-sized Booklover’s Burlesque: Shakespeare Edition and A Walking Shadow double-feature – The Victorian Belle 1441 N McClellan St
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8/09 – A Walking Shadow Workshop Production – Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd
A Walking Shadow Written, Devised, and Performed by: Megan Skye Hale* and Myrrh Larsen*
Booklover’s Burlesque Created and Produced by: Lacy Knightly
Speculative Drama Artistic Director: Megan Skye Hale*, Creative and Technical Director: Myrrh Larsen*
*indicates Speculative Drama company member