Past Shows
Bike Play 15: The Game of Bike
July 2024
When a lifelong cyclist loses their bike, they get sucked into a diabolical game world where they must struggle against inner and outer demons to recover their love of cycling and regain their freedom. Can they beat The Game of Bike?
Bike Play 14: Jurassic Bike
July 2023
Hold onto your bike seats, Bike Play is back and bigger than ever! Welcome to Jurassic Bike! We fused dino DNA with Bikes to create the world’s first Bikeosaurs, what can possibly go wrong? Join the exclusive tour of Portland’s most dangerous biological preserve and witness the evolution of Bike kind. Bike finds a way!
Bike Play 13: Beyond Velodrome, PDX Drift
June 2022
In a future not too far from our own, a mysterious stranger appears at the ruins of the historic Lloyd Center shopping mall. They've come in hopes of joining the Broken Spokes, Portland's toughest bicycle gang. The stranger is seeking answers - and a place to call home. Will this stranger find what they are looking for?
Bike Play 12: Resurrection
August 2021
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the saddle...Bike Play rises from the ashes for its 12th year! Can we get the gang back together to create another bike play? We can! We must!
Bike Play 11: The Big One
June 2019
This year's show is groundbreaking...or should we say groundQUAKING! When The Big One hits Portland, it's up to a group of intrepid cyclists to rebuild society and maybe learn some lessons along the way.
Bike Play 10: The Neverending Cycle
June 2018
This musical adventure invites audiences to ride alongside the revolution, as a band of scrappy die-hards battles to save a Portland in which the cycle has all but disappeared.
Bike Play 9: Bike Me to the Moon
June 2017
This year the Bike Play team uses the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to create a brand new work that focuses on the freedom and mystery that come with the will to explore and invent! This year we travel to the moon.
Bike Play 8: Adventures in Bikesitting
June 2016
Bike Play this year is totally righteous! We’re throwing it back to the 80’s with a reimagining of the classic movie Adventures in Babysitting. Naive suburbanites find themselves stranded in the Big City, and they’ll have to use every trick in the book to get home safely!
Bike Play 7: Timecycle
June 2015
Great Scott! The history of the bicycle is shrouded in mystery! Bike Play invites audiences on a ride through space and time. Together we will ride across the continuum (and around SE Portland) to ensure the future is set right!
Bike Play 6: Bike Play’s Big Adventure
June 2014
This year we give a nod to one of the greatest bicycle films of all time: Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Loosely inspired by the cult classic tale of bicycle theft, we encourage audiences to ride to, through, and alongside this summer adventure.
Bike Play 5: Bike Odyssey
June 2013
Answer the call to adventure as Bike Odyssey takes you on an epic journey through a land of gods, monsters, and heroically dexterous bike mechanics. You will cycle through worlds (and underworlds!) forbidden to mere mortals, alongside our band of cyclo-nauts.
Bike Play 4: Invasion of the Bicycle Snatchers
June 2012
Set in the distant present, Invasion of the Bicycle Snatchers re-imagines 1950’s science fiction through a Portland inspired lense, complete with alien invasions, government conspiracies and (gasp!) sentient cycles. Pedal down the side streets of Stumptown as this shocking sci-fi thriller unfolds.
Bike Play 3: Bike Noir
June 2011
Pedal to unexpected places among the shadows of the Rose City as a mystery unfolds in the gritty industrial underbelly of Portland, Oregon. Follow the action on bicycle to uncover secrets in back alleyways and beneath bridges.
Bike Play 2: North! Saddle Up and Ride
June 2010
Join us for a bicycle pedalin, boot scootin, down and dirty, cowboy adventure complete with sheriffs, outlaws, shootouts, rad ass tunes, rowdy brawls, and moustaches. Climb aboard your trusty steed of steel, aluminum, cromolly, or composite and ride into the sunset.
Bike Play 1: Pedal (Shift) Pedal Stop Breathe See
June 2009
Bike Play brings theater to the bicycle! Audiences will follow performers to a variety of locations around SE Portland and will be rewarded with an original play on and about life on two wheels.