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Shakespeare in the Park

The play’s the thing at Santa Barbara’s Elings Park.

Shakespeare in the Park

After a 25-year hiatus, Shakespeare is returning to Elings Park.

At 3 p.m. on Saturday, August 17, the park’s Godric Grove will become an enchanted forest, where unseen fairies and sprites (think Titania, Oberon, and Puck) coexist — and often interfere with — their human counterparts (namely, Helena and Demetrius, Hermia and Lysander).

In the words of the Bard himself, “The play’s the thing.” And this one is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed by the award-winning Topanga Canyon–based Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.