The return to outdoor performance at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF) is liberating for actor and audience.

For the PSF 2023 season, there’s a new venue and a new show.

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]” continues through July 16, Outdoor Stage, Trexler Library, DeSales University. The July 1 performance was seen for this review.

The June 30 opening night “Complete Works” performance at PSF was canceled for a Code Orange air-quality alert for the Lehigh Valley because of smoke from Canadian wildfires.

On July 9, an estimated 4 inches of rain inundated the Lehigh Valley.

Check the PSF website for weather-condition updates for “Complete Works” performances.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the incredibly talented three-person “Complete Works” cast of Eli Lynn, Sean Close and Sabrina Lynne Sawyer might not have or is working wildfires and meteorological references into the play. “Complete Works” lends itself to improvisation and the trio of thespians are masters of improv.

Even old Harry C. Trexler (1854 - 1933), Lehigh Valley industrialist, businessman, philanthropist and namesake of the library, gets some “and the horse you rode in on” good-natured ribbing (from Sean Close), despite the fact that Trexler was three centuries Shakespeare’s (1564 - 1616) junior.

“Good-natured” is the byword for the humor of “Complete Works.” Another byword is “corny,” as in the Center Valley cornfields, and “clever,” as in Director Matt Pfeiffer, who scrolls through his Rolodex encyclopedic pop-culture knowledge to up the gameplay.

Not only General Trexler time-travels in this Shakespearean romp. So does Super Mario (Sean Close) of the “Super Mario Bros.” video game-TV-movie world, “Star Wars” Princess Leia (Sabrina Lynne Sawyer) and a TV cooking show hosted by Julia Child (Eli Lynn) spoofing Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus.”

The trio plays multiple characters, augmented by pop-up photo cards of celebrities and historic figures and, well, you never know what or who might appear in Pfeiffer’s Shakespeare Theatrical Multiverse. Added to the hilarity are snippets of music, pop songs and dialogue. The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971) is just one of the many brilliant choices.

The fast-paced “Complete Works” will make your mind boggle, not only with pop-culture appropriations, but with Shakespeare references and send-ups. The show will give you a renewed appreciation of Will. Some of Shakespeare’s famous speeches are presented straight-forward and without comedic embellishment.

The original “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, was developed by American comedy troupe, The Reduced Shakespeare Company, and staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1987. The original “Complete Works” was presented at PSF in 2009, 2002 and 1999. New revisions, including the latest at PSF, were written by Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield.

The approximate one-hour and 30-minute comedy (with 15-minute intermission) “Complete Works” includes a parody of “Romeo and Juliet,” rap version of ”Othello” and mash-up of Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies and history plays. As might be expected, there are abridged versions: Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” “Antony and Cleopatra” and “Macbeth.” Act Two is sonnets, audience participation and “Hamlet,” the latter performed faster and faster, and backwards.

These are more than CliffsNotes’ (“Fast. Trusted. Proven”). Call them Cliffs Comedy Notes of Shakespeare. When the “Complete”’ notes are hit, which is more often than not, it’s laugh out-loud funny.

The PSF “Complete Works” stage set, a wooden platform with backdrop bas-relief columns, doors and windows; drawing of William Shakespeare, and list of Shakespeare’s 36 plays (he also wrote 133 sonnets), is on the steps to the audience left of the library entrance. Folding chairs in rows are on the concrete plaza. It’s a nice, cozy area.

Scenic Designer is Joshua Rose. Sound Designer is David M. Greenberg. Costume Designer is Rebecca Callan.

“Complete Works” is PSF’s first outdoor production since 2021’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” also directed by Pfeiffer. That outdoor show utilized a large wood stage set placed on the mall lawn west of Labuda Center for the Performing Arts.

The actors in the 2023 “Complete Works” are imaginative, fearless and incredible. Each is in excellent and distinctive voice. They are so energetic that one wonders if the show must be exhausting for them.

Sean Close plays the role of host, emcee and interlocutor, as well as numerous characters, each more befuddled than the next.

Eli Lynn is an actor of a thousand voices and guises, convincingly, seamlessly and quickly moving from one to the next.

Sabrina Lynn Sawyer is a dynamo of remarkable range, versatility and believability, so rapid-fire to be at times a seeming whirlwind.

“Complete Works” is a must-see for Shakespeare canon completists, aficionados of The Bard and fans of “Saturday Night Live”-style sketch comedy.

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again],” 6:30 p.m. June 28 - 30, July 1, 5 - 7, 11 - 14; 2, 6:30 p.m. July 2, 8, 9, 15; 2 p.m. July 15, 16. Talk-back with actors after July 13 performance. Audio-described and American Sign Language performance, 2 p.m. July 15, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Outdoor Stage, Trexler Library, DeSales University, 2755 Station Avenue. Center Valley. Tickets: 610-282-9455, http://pashakespeare.org