Our Mission

Bedrock Theatre's mission is to connect audiences to their environment and to each other through immersive storytelling in natural landscapes. Bedrock takes the idea of outdoor theatre a step further, not simply setting a play outside, but allowing the innate character of the scenery to inform the story we tell there. With music, movement, and person-to-person storytelling, our adaptations and original works are lovingly crafted to transform an ordinary path into the world of the tale. 

While Bedrock Theatre shares work in a variety of landscapes and venues, we primarily gather in and around Portland, Oregon. 

The Portland Metro area “rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River creating communities and summer encampments to harvest and use the plentiful natural resources of the area" (Portland Indian Leaders Roundtable, 2018). We respectfully acknowledge this land’s original caretakers, and recognize that many Native people continue to live and work in the Portland of today. 

As we strive to listen deeply to the environment and to lift up stories of the land, we honor the ongoing story of Oregon’s Native peoples, whose knowledge and stewardship of this landscape goes back tens of thousands of years.

What audience members are saying

“There was so much to engage with between the music, the landscape and the language.”

“I walked away with a sense of peace and gratitude.”

“It’s that 'we’re all hanging out with guitars and we’re all together' feeling. It’s that feeling.”

“It reminded me that fairytales are of the woods. They come from this place and live here.”

“I loved the way the story just arose out of the conversation.”