Credit: Myrrh Lrsen

Upon This Blasted Heath: A One-Hour Macbeth

Downtown

When

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026

5 p.m.

Free

Where

Director Park

815 Southwest Park Avenue
Portland, OR, 97205

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Join Speculative Drama for the sixth annual one-hour adaptation of the internationally acclaimed 2020 production of Macbeth, and the tenth anniversary season closer. This live, immersive, outdoor performance explores Shakespeare’s spookiest play from the perspective of Macbeth reliving the events leading up to his bloody and merciless reign, descent into madness, and death.

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Myrrh Lrsen

Featuring a series of vignettes following the connective thread — “what makes a man a monster,” this fever dream production is a 50-minute runaway train of hilarious and haunting witches, bloody battles, and macabre madness — the perfect way to spend your Halloween weekend. The audience is invited to meet at the oversized sidewalk chess set at the southeast corner of Director Park and follow the Three Weird Sisters to a nearby outdoor arena. Trick-or-treat bags are available before the show because even adults deserve a little treat on Halloween. Walk-up audiences are welcome throughout the show, and this production is entirely free — though donations and tips to the hard-working cast and crew are encouraged. All actors are fully vaccinated and tested on the day of. Audience masks are heavily encouraged for the safety of the actors. Anyone wearing a mask will be treated to a special gift. Thank you for helping to keep the community safe and healthy.

Director: Myrrh Larsen

Cast: Nik Hoback as Macbeth, Elizabeth Neal, Parker Matthews, Megan Skye Hale, Kate Belden, and Katie Mortemore

Speculative Drama Artistic Director: Megan Skye Hale, Creative and Technical Director: Myrrh Larsen

By the pricking of my thumbs…Something wicked this way comes, one night only at the golden hour.