From schools to homeless shelters, prisons to community centers, the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare to the people, and the people to Shakespeare.  This season, the Mobile Unit celebrates 60 years of igniting dialogue and fostering new connections with a vibrant new production of the gender-bending, heart-mending comedy, TWELFTH NIGHT.

When a young shipwrecked immigrant named Viola takes a chance on the “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the mid-nineties and washes up amidst the shore of glitzy Illyria, Florida, she finds herself a stranger in a fabulously strange new land. Thinking her twin brother has drowned, Viola throws herself into a new gig as assistant to Orsino, a wealthy Floridian with a serious case of love sickness for a wealthy lady, Olivia. Having disguised herself as a boy to become Orsino’s right hand man, Viola (now Cesario) is tasked with delivering his adoring valentines. But as Viola woos in her boss’s name, she falls head over spiky heels for the man himself, while Olivia turns her affections to the intriguing young messenger boy, Cesario (also Viola). Set to the rhythms of house, Cuban and nineties beats, Saheem Ali directs this colorful comedy about the power of new people and new experiences that throw the world into beautiful disarray, and open hearts and minds to the possibility of love. 
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All tickets to this run of Twelfth Night at The Public are FREE. Free tickets will be available via TodayTix Lottery and in-person lottery at The Public Theater. On each performance date, free tickets are distributed via random mobile lottery on the TodayTix app. Download the TodayTix app to enter or visit publictheater.org for more information. On each performance date, a limited number of tickets for that night’s performance are distributed via an in-person lottery downtown at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place. Entries will be accepted one and a half hours prior to curtain, and winners will be selected one hour prior to curtain for all performances.

Featuring Stephen S. Chacon (Sebastian), Michael Bradley Cohen (Orsino, Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Danaya Esperanza(Viola), Ceci Fernandez (Olivia), Christopher Ryan Grant (Sir Toby Belch),  Donnetta Lavinia Grays (Feste), David Ryan Smith (Malvolio), Aneesh Sheth (Maria), and Michael Thurber (Antonio)
Michael Thurber (Composer) 
Lisa Kopitsky (Fight Director) 
Tanya Birl (Movement Director)

Touching Moments from Public's Free Mobile Unit Tour  Twelfth Night - TheatreMania.com

How This Trans Actress Was Happily Proven Wrong About Show Business - Huffington Post 

​The Public Theater to Stage Free Run of Twelfth Night​ - Playbill.com

Cast Complete for The Public's Free, Cuban-Inspired Mobile Unit TWELFTH NIGHT - BroadwayWorld.com

Public Theater Mobile Unit to Present Twelfth Night - TheaterMania.com