Booking and details
Dates & TicketsDates Tue, May 13 – Sun, Jun 22, 2025
Venue Folger Theatre
Tickets $20 – $84
Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.
Viola washes up on the shore after losing her twin brother in a shipwreck. In disguise as her twin brother, she lands in the world of Duke Orsino. A playful interpretation of a beloved Shakespeare comedy that brings gender fluidity, mistaken identities, and what it means to move between worlds into a joyful discovery of love.
Creative team
Mei Ann Teo
Mei Ann Teo (Director) is a queer immigrant from Singapore making theater and film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, they create across genres, including music theater, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theater. Teo’s work has been in international festivals including Belgium’s Festival de Liege, Edinburgh International Fringe, Beijing International Festival, Singapore Theatre Festival.
Jen Rabbit Ring
Jen Rabbit Ring (Voice and Text Coach) Folger Theatre: debut. Arena Stage: Change Agent; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Public Obscenities, The Sensational Sea-Minkettes, Incendiary, Amm(i)gone; Mosaic Theater Company: Mary’s Seacole, Monumental Travesties; Rorschach Theatre Company: Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Chemical Exile, A Bid to Save the World; Taffety Punk: She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange; Theatre 4615: Separate Rooms (world premiere); Regional: Mile Square Theatre: Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi, Flare; Colab Arts: Romeo y Julieta, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Storytellers: Hamlet. Shakespeare & Company: Affiliated Actor Training Faculty. Designated Linklater Voice Teacher.
Accessibility
The Folger wants every visitor to enjoy exploring our building, our programs, and our collection. We strive to provide access to all audiences.
Please contact us at VisitorServices@folger.edu or (202) 544-7077 with questions or requests. More information
Relaxed performances
- Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 7:30pm
- Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 2pm
Relaxed performances are designed to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for audiences that may receive and react to information in different ways. The content of the production is the same, but some elements of the environment are altered.
Please contact VisitorServices@folger.edu with any additional questions.
Audio-described performance
- Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 2pm
Audio description (AD) is a narration service that attempts to describe the visual aspects of theatre and make the visual an auditory experience, with the goal of helping low vision and Blind audience members share in the experience of live theatre more fully.
Please contact VisitorServices@folger.edu with any additional questions.
Open-captioned performances
- Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 2pm and 7:30pm
Open-captioning makes live theater performances accessible by using a non-intrusive caption board at the front of the stage which scrolls the entire text of the production in real time.
For information about the best seat locations from which to see the caption board, contact at VisitorServices@folger.edu or (202) 544–7077.
Special performances
Pay what you will
- Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 7:30pm
The concept is simple: you tell us what you will pay for your ticket! Sales begin two (2) hours before curtain at the door and are available on a first come, first served basis — limit one (1) ticket per person.
Post-show discussion
- Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 7:30pm
Join us after the performance for a free conversation with the cast, moderated by the production dramaturg.
Folger Theatre Sponsors
With special thanks to
The Share Fund
Premier Season Sponsor
Dr. Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite
Season Sponsor
Helen and David Kenney & Family
Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky
Production Sponsor
Nancy and Steve Howard (Romeo and Juliet)
Contributing Sponsor
Celia and Keith Arnaud
Gail Kern Paster
Associate Sponsor
Timothy J. Carlton (Romeo and Juliet)
Wes and Sly Hallman
Peter and Mary Pennington
Rick Kasten (Romeo and Juliet)
Artist Sponsor
Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel
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