Racecar Racecar Racecar

February 3 - March 1, 2026
Artists Repertory Theatre

This show has SOLD OUT! Rush tickets can be purchased at the door two hours before the performance. First come first served, subject to availability.

By Kallan Dana | Directed by Melory Mirashrafi

A daughter and father embark on a shapeshifting road trip across the country. They fill their time doing regular father-daughter things: playing palindromic word games (r-a-c-e-c-a-r), digging up the past, picking up questionable hitchhikers, racing through the gelatinous landscape of their shared nightmares… So fun!
Portland-raised Kallan Dana’s Racecar Racecar Racecar is a tightly crafted, Lynchian thriller that dives into the complexities of memory, family, and the ties that bind — for better or for worse. Everything is great!

This play is a thriller that may contain content that is distressing to some viewers. Please review our content warnings.

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♦ Saturday, Feb 14 & 28 (evening): Music of Racecar

♦ Feb 12, 21 & 27 (evening): 10-Minute Tapestry

♦ Sunday, Feb 15 & 22 (evening): Post-Show Discussion

♦ Saturday, Feb 21 (evening): BIPOC Affinity Night

♦ Sunday, Feb 22 (matinee): Open Caption Performance

♦ Thursday, Feb 26 (evening): Audio Described Performance

♦ Friday, Feb 27 (evening): ASL Performance

Press

No place like home: A road trip through a father and daughter’s nightmares

The expert direction by Melory Mirashrafi is particularly impressive, considering that this thriller has more moving parts than a luxury car, with actors playing multiple roles that feature fast-paced wordplay as one verb slurs into another, such as when Dad says something like, “We don’t server, savor, sever our time together.”

Linda Ferguson - Oregon ArtsWatch

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Portland-Raised Playwright Kallan Dana on Her Lynchian Thriller Racecar Racecar Racecar

Billed as a Lynchian thriller, Racecar hops in the car with an unnamed father and daughter on a cross country road trip. As with anything described as Lynchian, something uneasy bubbles under the surface and things get weird. The duo picks up hitchhikers with inscrutable agendas, meets living memories from their past, and Jo March from Little Women makes a cameo. Dana cites Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Drive and Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things as major influences on the piece.

TJ Acena - Portland Mercury

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Be willing to surrender to the strangeness. Don’t forget to buckle up!

Krista Garver - Broadway World

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Hello Rose City - KGW

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