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Dates May 13 – June 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.
Kaja Dunn
Kaja Dunn (Resident Intimacy and Cultural Consultant): Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses, The Winter’s Tale, Our Verse In Time To Come, The Reading Room; Arena Stage: American Prophet; Denver Center for the Arts: Choir Boy, 5thAve; ACT Theatre (Seattle): Choir Boy; St. Louis Rep.: Private Lives, Confederates; Two River Theatre: Wine In The Wilderness; Penumbra Theatre: Sugar In Our Wounds; Broadway: A Strange Loop (Assoc. Intimacy Director); Television: The Best Man, Final Chapters, Harlem, The Equalizer; Awards: Kennedy Center American Theatre Award, Playwrights Project Excellence in Arts Education; Publications: Arden Contemporary Shakespeare, Intimacy Direction For Theatre, Theatre Symposium, HowlRound, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (UK). Carnegie Mellon University: Associate Professor.
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
Share Fund
Premier Season Sponsors
Dr. Bill & Evelyn Braithwaite
Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky
Season Sponsors
Helen & David Kenney & Family
Production Sponsors
Nancy & Steve Howard
Contributing Sponsors
Louis and Bonnie Cohen
Gail Kern Paster
Ian Vance
Scott & Liz Vance
Associate Sponsors
Timothy J. Carlton
Rick Kasten
Peter & Mary Jay Michel
Artist Sponsor
Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel
Open-Captioned Performance Sponsors
Vinton and Sigrid Cerf
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