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“A FUNNY NEW SPIN on sex, money - and love. A satirical social comedy!” – WBUR
“Gionfriddo is a sharp-eyed social observer and a playwright of wit.” – The Boston Globe
“IT'S A DAZZLER! All the ingredients for another typically witty and timely treatment by Gionfriddo.” – South Shore Critic
It’s Halloween night, and Miranda is desperate for a way out. She’s up to her neck in debt, she might be falling for the man who pays her bills, and now her date has threatened to kill her. A charismatic stranger offers shelter and a drink; where will the night take them? With her trademark dark humor, two-time Pulitzer finalist Gina Gionfriddo presents complicated characters wrestling with love, money, and their past in this sharp contemporary comedy.
Approximate run time: 1 hours and 40 minutes without intermission.Please note, herbal cigarettes are used in this production.
Who would have thought that overwhelming debt could be so funny? Can You Forgive Her? has won over Boston audiences!
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"Ms. Gionfriddo considers herself “an absolute encyclopedia of true crime” — a handy characteristic for someone who writes for television’s “Law & Order” — and in her experienced eye, crimes motivated by money, power and status are the most compelling and transgressive."
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“Gionfriddo is a witty observer of the social zeitgeist whose characters lead lives of comic desperation.” – WBUR
Gina Gionfriddo was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013)(commissioned by and premiered at Playwrights Horizons and produced at the Huntington in 2013) and a 2009 finalist for Becky Shaw (2010). Becky Shaw had its world premiere at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays and its New York premiere Off Broadway at Second Stage Theatre. Ms. Gionfriddo’s other plays include Can You Forgive Her? (2016) (Huntington Theatre Company), After Ashley (Humana Festival and Off Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre) and US Drag (Off Broadway by Clubbed Thumb and the stageFRAM).
Peter DuBois served as Artistic Director of the Huntington from 2008 - 2020, during which time his directing credits included Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (2019), Romeo and Juliet (2019), Fall (2018), Tartuffe (2017), Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George (2016) and A Little Night Music , the world premieres of Gina Gionfriddo’s Can You Forgive Her? (2016), Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People (2014), Evan M. Wiener’s Captors (2011), , Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet(2011)(2012 Pulitzer finalist), Bob Glaudini’s Vengeance is the Lord’s and David Grimm’s The Miracle at Naples (2009); the regional premieres of A. Rey Pamatmat’s after all the terrible things I do (2015), Stephen Belber’s The Power of Duff (2013), Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw (2010) and Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013), and Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss (2010).
Allyn Burrows previously appeared in Can You Forgive Her (2016) at the Huntington. He has Off Broadway credits that include Bug, Killer Joe, Louis Slotin Sonata, Closetland, and The Windowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Regionally he’s worked with the Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and Walnut Street Theatre.
Chris Henry Coffey previously appeared in Can You Forgive Her? (2016) and Richard Nelson's How Shakespeare Won the West (2008) at the Huntington. His theatrical credits include Bronx Bombers on Broadway after its successful run at Primary Stages, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful at Second Stage Theatre (Davis McCallum, dir.), Richard Nelson’s Frank’s Home(Playwrights Horizons and Goodman Theatre, Robert Falls, dir.), and A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room at the Westport Country Playhouse (Mark Lamos, dir., Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Best Ensemble).
Tanya Fischer previously appeared in the Huntington's production of Can You Forgive Her? (2016). She has Off Broadway credits that include US Drag (Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row), Los Angeles and A Christmas Song (The Flea Theater), and The Dream Express (The Chocolate Factory Theater).
Meredith Forlenza appeared in Can You Forgive Her? (2016) and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (2014) at the Huntington.
Theo Iyer previously appeared at the Huntington in Can You Forgive Her? (2016).He has New York credits that include Animals out of Paper, Sex and Charitable Giving, and Brothers. His recent work in the feature film The Grief of Others was featured at the South by Southwest Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, and he will be making his television debut this March in "Limitless." Mr. Iyer is a recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, earning a BFA in acting. theoiyer.com.
Lauren Helpern designed Can You Forgive Her? at the Huntington.
Mary Lauve designed the costumes for the Huntington’s productions of The Who & the What and Can You Forgive Her?
Philip S. Rosenberg designed Sherlock's Last Case (2018), Fall (2018), Merrily We Roll Along (2017), Can You Forgive Her? (2016), Betrayal (2012), Private Lives (2012), Bus Stop (2010), and She Loves Me (2008) at the Huntington.
Daniel Kluger provided the sound design for the Huntington's production of Can You Forgive Her? (2016). He produces music and sound design for theatre and film. He recently did the orchestrations for Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! at Bard SummerScape. New York credits include The Effect, Tribes, and Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre), The Mystery of Love and Sex and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater), Marjorie Prime, Iowa, andYour Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra (Playwrights Horizons), Significant Other and The Common Pursuit (Roundabout Theatre Company)...
Alaine Alldaffer (she/her) (Casting) The Huntington: numerous credits since 2000. New York: casting director for Playwrights Horizons, where credits include Grey Gardens (also for Broadway), Clybourne Park (also for Broadway), Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and Obie awards for Best Ensemble and an Artios Award for casting), The Flick (Playwrights Horizons and Barrow Street Theatre).
Emily F. McMullen Huntington: has stage managed over 25 shows over the past six seasons, including Sweat, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Indecent; Romeo and Juliet; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Man in the Ring; The Niceties; Top Girls; Bad Dates; Tartuffe; and Merrily We Roll Along.
Kevin Schlagle (he/him) (Production Stage Manager) The Huntington: Over 30 productions, including We All Fall Down; The Purists; Yerma; Sherlock’s Last Case; Merrily We Roll Along; Ripcord; Topdog/Underdog; Sunday in the Park with George; Milk Like Sugar; A Confederacy of Dunces; A Little Night Music; Come Back, Little Sheba; Smart People; Our Town; Prelude to a Kiss.
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