A devious new comedy about one woman’s deal with the devil

Witch

by Jen Silverman | Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
October 15 - November 14, 2021
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA, 527 Tremont St.

This fiendishly funny new play follows an alluring devil named Scratch as he arrives in the country village of Edmonton, and he promises to make the darkest dreams of its locals come true in exchange for their souls. When he meets Elizabeth Sawyer, she should be the easiest to convince — she’s an outcast, branded as a witch for years. So why does she resist Scratch’s deal? This subversive, inventive work by Jen Silverman (The Roommate) is a free adaptation of a 1621 Jacobean comedy recreated with a modern sensibility, and is “devilishly clever and deliciously laugh-packed” (StageSceneLA). Directing is Rebecca Bradshaw.

Approximate run time: Witch plays in approximately 100 minutes with no intermission.

PLEASE NOTE:
This production includes strobe lighting effects.

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Huntington's 'Witch' asks how we're shaped by our desires

Faced with the opportunity to gain power, status and money, peasant Frank Thorney won't let anything get in his way as he ascends, not even his love for his secret wife, Winnifred, in Huntington Theater's "Witch." Somehow, "It [love] matters less than it should," he says. The entertaining Jen Silverman narrative (running now through Nov. 14) is an adaptation of "The Witch of Edmonton" and focuses on the complicated relationship between Elizabeth Sawyer (Lyndsay Allyn Cox), the neighborhood outcast, and Scratch (Michael Underhill), a leather-clad devil.

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A WICKEDLY FUNNY DARK COMEDY!

Just in time for Halloween, Jen Silverman’s new play takes place in the 17th century but feels as contemporary as ever, reckoning with themes of gender and bias in society. Silverman has loosely adapted the Jacobean play “The Witch of Edmonton” from 1621 to tell the story of Elizabeth Sawyer, an outcast who is accused of being a witch as an intriguing devil named Scratch comes to town and shakes things up.

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Which World is Worth It: Witch at The Huntington

We’ve become quite familiar with the sentiment: You have to laugh because otherwise you’d be crying. Between the last presidency and the current pandemic we are all at our wit’s end. Ironically wit is what has been keeping many of us alive. Playwright Jen Silverman’s Witch is a masterful work taking the audience on a familiar but unexpected (for the most part) journey.

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A devilish and delightful ‘Witch’ opens at the Huntington

As nearby Salem has taught us, it’s rarely a good time when the devil comes to town. But in Witch, playing at the Huntington Theatre through Nov. 15, the narrative gets a modern makeover rounded out with laughter, tears and questions probing into contemporary morality.

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There’s no witch in ‘Witch,’ just a bedeviled woman

You won’t find any broomsticks, boiling cauldrons, or burning stakes in Jen Silverman’s “Witch.” The Huntington Theatre Company production, beginning performances at the Calderwood Pavilion this weekend, isn’t about the Salem witch trials or the area’s centuries-long fascination with the occult, cautions director Rebecca Bradshaw. “[It’s] about a strong, independent woman asking for more from the society around her, and she gets ostracized for that.”

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Concocting a new take on ‘Witch’

The English theater scene of Shakespeare and his contemporaries spent a lot of time reinforcing what it meant to be a witch. The nasty women spent a lot of time over bubbling cauldrons filled with newts’ eyes and dogs’ tongues and cursing men into impotence.

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Hispanic Heritage Month

Community Engagement Manager Oswaldo Pereira recently sat down with Witch cast members Gina Fonseca and Javier David Padilla to discuss their heritage and the experience of being Latinx in the performing arts industry.

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Artists

Jen Silverman Playwright Jen Silverman Playwright
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Jen Silverman

Playwright

Jen Silverman (Playwright; she/they) is a New York-based writer. Jen’s plays include Witch (Writer’s Theatre, The Geffen); The Roommate (Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Rep, Long Wharf, etc); Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties (Woolly Mammoth, Southwark Playhouse in London, MCC Theater); and The Moors (Yale Rep, The Playwrights Realm).
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Rebecca Bradshaw Director Rebecca Bradshaw Director
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Rebecca Bradshaw

Director

Rebecca Bradshaw (she/her) has built her career in Boston as a theatre director, producer, educator, casting director, and advocate. She has since become the new producing artistic director at the Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY.
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Barzin Akhavan Sir Arthur Banks Barzin Akhavan Sir Arthur Banks
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Barzin Akhavan

Sir Arthur Banks

Barzin Akhavan (he/him) Broadway: Network. Off Broadway: Macbeth (Classic Stage Company), Hamlet (Waterwell), Richard II (WNYC/The Public Theater).
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Lyndsay Allyn Cox Elizabeth Lyndsay Allyn Cox Elizabeth
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Lyndsay Allyn Cox

Elizabeth

Lyndsay Allyn Cox Regional: Bright Half Life (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage Company); Caroline, Or Change (Moonbox Productions); Winter People (Boston Playwrights' Theatre); Leftovers and The Overwhelming (Company One Theatre); Men on Boats (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Barbecue and By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lyric Stage Company).
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Gina Fonseca Winnifred Gina Fonseca Winnifred
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Gina Fonseca

Winnifred

Gina Fonseca (she/her) Regional: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (workshop premiere, Off the Grid Theatre Company). Educational: Photograph 51, Antigone, Time Stands Still, The Clean House, Measure for Measure (Boston University); The Tempest (Shakespeare Academy @Stratford); BFA Acting, Boston University. Ginafonseca.com.
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Javier David Padilla Frank Javier David Padilla Frank
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Javier David Padilla

Frank

Javier David Padilla (he/him) is a California born and raised actor based in New York City. Credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Classical Theatre of Harlem), A Doll’s House (Signature Theatre), The Rocky Horror Show (Artist Repertory Theatre), Almost, Maine (L.A. Theatre Center), Commedia (Atelier Teatro Fisico), In The Red And Brown Water (Columbia University), A Street Car Named Desire (Columbia University), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Columbia University).
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Nick Sulfaro Cuddy Nick Sulfaro Cuddy
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Nick Sulfaro

Cuddy

Nick Sulfaro (he/him) The Huntington: Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music, Home of the Brave (Breaking Ground Festival reading), and Sitting Still #1 (Emerging America Festival radio play).
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Michael Underhill Scratch Michael Underhill Scratch
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Michael Underhill

Scratch

Michael Underhill (he/him) The Huntington: 3 Miles (Dream Boston audio play), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (2019), Man in the Ring (2018).
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Luciana Stecconi Scenic Design Luciana Stecconi Scenic Design
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Luciana Stecconi

Scenic Design

Luciana Stecconi (she/her) Scenic Design Regional: A Wind in the Door (The Kennedy Center Theatre For Young Audiences); Oil (Olney Theatre Center); Kings (Studio Theatre); Antonio’s Song, Chester Bailey (Contemporary American Theater Festival); Straight White Men (Marin Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Folger Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Signature Theatre); The Who and the What (Round House Theatre); Lights Rise on Grace (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Grounded (Everyman Theatre, Northern Stage); Or, What She Will (Hangar Theatre); The Vagrant Trilogy (Mosaic Theatre).
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Chelsea Kerl Costume Design Chelsea Kerl Costume Design
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Chelsea Kerl

Costume Design

Chelsea Kerl (she/her) is a Boston-based freelance artist. Select recent designs include: A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Huntington / Boston University Opera Institute); Pass Over (SpeakEasy Stage Company/Front Porch Arts Collective); Greater Good (Company One Theatre/American Repertory Theatre); Willy Wonka (Wheelock Family Theatre at BU).
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Mary Louise Geiger Lighting Design Mary Louise Geiger Lighting Design
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Mary Louise Geiger

Lighting Design

Mary Louise Geiger (she/her) (Lighting Design) The Huntington: Top Girls, Venus in Fur (IRNE Award), Invisible Man (IRNE Award), Burn This.
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Melanie Chen Cole Sound Design Melanie Chen Cole Sound Design
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Melanie Chen Cole

Sound Design

Melanie Chen Cole (she/her) Sound Design Regional: The Ohio State Murders (Goodman Theatre); Mrs. Harrison, Tuesdays with Morrie (Indiana Repertory Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Alabama Story, Buzz, Romeo & Juliet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (South Coast Repertory); White Pearl (Studio Theatre), Noura, Tiny Beautiful Things, The Imaginary Invalid (The Old Globe); Steel Magnolias (Dallas Theater Center); 2019 POP Tour Light Years Away, At the Old Place, 2017 POP Tour #SuperShinySara (La Jolla Playhouse).
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Ted Hewlett Fights/Intimacy Ted Hewlett Fights/Intimacy
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Ted Hewlett

Fights/Intimacy

Ted Hewlett (he/him) (Fights/Intimacy) The Huntington: Sweat, Quixote Nuevo, Yerma, Sherlock’s Last Case, Tartuffe, Merrily We Roll Along, Ripcord, Topdog/Underdog, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, I Was Most Alive with You, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Colored Museum, Venus in Fur, Now or Later, Private Lives, Luck of the Irish, God of Carnage, Before I Leave You, Fences, and Brendan.
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Misha Shields Movement Misha Shields Movement
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Misha Shields

Movement

Misha Shields (she/her) (Movement) The Huntington: Yerma (2019), Ripcord (2017), A Doll's House(2017), Milk Like Sugar (2016), and I Was Most Alive with You (2016).
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Pascale Florestal Dramaturg Pascale Florestal Dramaturg
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Pascale Florestal

Dramaturg

Pascale Florestal (she/her) is a Director, Educator, Dramaturg, Writer and Collaborator based in Boston, MA. Recent Dramaturgy; The Resurrection of Michelle Morgan by Christina Anderson with Geva Theater and Pass Over by Antoniette Nwandu with SpeakEasy Stage Co-Produced with The Front Porch Arts Collective.
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Alaine Alldaffer Casting Alaine Alldaffer Casting
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Alaine Alldaffer

Casting

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).
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Kevin Schlagle Production Stage Manager Kevin Schlagle Production Stage Manager
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Kevin Schlagle

Production Stage Manager

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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Sam Layco Stage Manager Sam Layco Stage Manager
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Sam Layco

Stage Manager

Sam Layco she/they (Stage Manager) The Huntington: Sweat, The Purists, The Niceties (stage manager); Tiger Style!, Topdog/Underdog (production assistant).
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Kettia FenestorHair Consultant
Ted HewlettIntimacy Consultant
Rosalind BevanAssistant Director
Winnie Chiang, Ashley PitchfordProduction Assistants
Jazzmin BonnerLine Producer
Caitlyn Buja, Jay Granniss, Errick Jersey, Duncan Kennedy, Isaac WestCarpenters
Jay GrannissDeck Run Crew
Patrick Goodsell, Duncan KennedyProp Carpenters
Steven DoucetteProp Artisan
Elektra NewmanScenic Artist
Zoe SundraCostume Design Assistant
Emily KeeblerFirst Costumer
Jennie FuchsWardrobe Swing
Carmen Alfaro, Jordan Barnett, Michaela Bocchino, Anna Brevetti, Liam Corley, Dean Covert, Lydia Jung, Angela Mantel, Jonathan RooneyElectricians

Prices & Seating

	Section
Performance Day	Zone 1	Zone 2	Zone 3	Zone 4
PEAK: Friday & Saturday evening; Sunday matinee	$99	$85	$69	$25
OFF PEAK: Sunday - Thursday evening; Saturday matinee	$95	$75	$65	$25
FIRST LOOK: First Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Tuesday evening; Wednesday matinee	$90	$69	$55	$25

PEAK: Friday & Saturday evening;
Sunday matinee

Section

Price

Zone 1

$99

Zone 2

$85

Zone 3

$69

Zone 4

$25

OFF PEAK: Sunday - Thursday evening;
Saturday matinee

Section

Price

Zone 1

$95

Zone 2

$75

Zone 3

$65

Zone 4

$25

FIRST LOOK: First Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Tuesday evening; Wednesday matinee

Section

Price

Zone 1

$90

Zone 2

$69

Zone 3

$55

Zone 4

$25

Ticket price includes a $4.00 Capital Enhancement Fee. Prices may vary and are subject to change at any time.

A devious new comedy about one woman’s deal with the devil

Witch

by Jen Silverman | Directed by Rebecca BradshawOctober 15 - November 14, 2021The Huntington Calderwood/BCA, 527 Tremont St.

Video

Articles

Artists

Jen Silverman

Playwright

Rebecca Bradshaw

Director

Barzin Akhavan

Sir Arthur Banks

Lyndsay Allyn Cox

Elizabeth

Gina Fonseca

Winnifred

Javier David Padilla

Frank

Nick Sulfaro

Cuddy

Michael Underhill

Scratch

Luciana Stecconi

Scenic Design

Chelsea Kerl

Costume Design

Mary Louise Geiger

Lighting Design

Melanie Chen Cole

Sound Design

Ted Hewlett

Fights/Intimacy

Misha Shields

Movement

Pascale Florestal

Dramaturg

Alaine Alldaffer

Casting

Kevin Schlagle

Production Stage Manager

Sam Layco

Stage Manager

Prices & Seating

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2021-2022 season

by Jen Silverman | Directed by Rebecca Bradshaw
October 15 - November 14, 2021
The Huntington Calderwood/BCA, 527 Tremont St.