Last chance

“Watch on the Rhine”: When Lillian Hellman’s drama opened in 1941, it gave human form to the fascist menace in Europe. The action took place in a house outside Washington, where a Nazi-friendly blackmailer threatened a European American family. Today, this famously pro-war drama is rarely performed. Intriguingly, it was part of the summer season at the Theatricum Botanicum. In the program notes, director Heidi Helen Davis says, “ ‘Watch on the Rhine’ means keeping watch on a part of the world that is going mad.” What exactly is going mad is for theatergoers to judge.

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Ends Saturday at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. (310) 455-3723.