‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to Return to Geer Stage

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Shakespeare’s enchanted tale about mismatched lovers and a fairyland quarrel spiced with magic gone awry opens Monday at 6 p.m. at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

Something of a tradition at the outdoor canyon venue, this forest romp--with its fairy malice and mischief, hilarious bumbling rustics and the comic, runaway romantic woes of four young mortals--is very much at home in the theater’s natural setting in the Topanga woods.

Theatricum’s final repertory offering of the season, “Midsummer” shares the stage with the company’s other well-received productions: Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” Peter Hall’s musical version of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and Jean Giradoux’s fable “The Madwoman of Chaillot.”

The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum is at 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” also plays Sept. 6-7, 13-14, 21, 28 at 8 p.m.; Oct. 6, 13, 20 at 3 p.m. Pre-show discussion on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. Ends Oct. 20. $14-$22; ages 7 to 13, $8; ages 6 and younger, free. (310) 455-3723.