If you’re a Bay Area resident, chances are good that at some point you’ve seen a William Shakespeare play performed outdoors—a staple brand of local theater production. But not all outdoor sites are created equal, and not all performances are created with a given location’s particular qualities in mind.

That’s one of many things that Berkeley Shakespeare Company’s production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Fri/24 through November 2), set on a gorgeous bit of California coastline at Point Montara, has going for it. Composed of a diminutive chunk of cliff jutting out above rocky shoals and crashing waves and topped with a 30-foot working lighthouse, and several historic buildings that now serve as a traveler’s hostel, the point is just 25 miles south of San Francisco—but it feels about 100 ye

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