←Recommendations of Heist!

This is just beautiful. Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend is a heavyweight landing joke after joke on her audience. In the hands of a pair of skilled comic actors, Heist! would be criminally hilarious.

Very funny, excellent pacing. Things just keep getting worse for the thieves, their panic is hilarious but their determination to keep going and their revisions to the plan are hilarious-er.

Heist! is an absolute delight! It's funny and resonant for all of us who have felt ourselves a little (or a lot) overmatched for the situation we've elected to be in, and the brilliant pivots the characters make are hilarious--what a treat for the actors. If I'm ever robbed, I hope it's by Billy and Gene. This piece will be a hit in any short play festival.

A brilliant illustration of two bumbling thieves and a heist gone wrong. This play explores themes of unexpected consequences, adaptability, and the absurdity of criminal plans gone awry. The play's clever dialogue and comedic situation would make for an outstanding performance.

This play was selected for the Snowdance 2024 season at Over Our Head Players.

While we shouldn’t condone theft, I was kind of rooting for these bumblers who had the audacity to go after the Hope Diamond. I especially enjoyed the silent, invisible Marianne, a character we never see or hear but who is fully fleshed out by our thieves mere reactions to her mute responses. I would love to see more of these two. Well done.

Who doesn’t love a heist planned by incompetents. “I think we should change tactics.” “Were we using tactics?” A very funny and theatrical two hander.

I know a script is really good when I find myself reading it aloud -- when the rhythm and music and sometimes just plain dumb glory of the dialogue compels me to speak it and hear it and play every part. Such was the case in my reading of the charming HEIST!, in which two incompetent criminals take a big swing at a big score...and try to pivot as it all goes predictably wrong. Billy the Kid and Gene Wilder may suck at jewel theft, but they're experts at stealing laughs. A delight.

A pure delight! Inventive and so much fun -- spending 10 minutes with Billy the Kid (not his real name) and Gene Wilder (not his real name either) as they fail and fail again is a joy. High concept plus hilarious dialogue equals HEIST!

HEIST is a hilarious and disarming jewel caper that will keep you chuckling for hours. I love the way LDF handles a third character, Marianne, only seen by the thieves BILLY THE KID and GENE WILDER. That their thief names are so discongruous is a hoot, as well as their lack of resolve. The whole good thief / bad thief argument is inspired, especially the line: “The energy you’re exuding is very ‘bad thief.’” I can see two actors having a blast with this one. And it would be a delight for audiences of all ages.

All good robberies need a plan. All badly hilarious robberies need Gene and Billy. Thanks to Lisa Dellagirino Feriend, we got the latter. And the audience will be all the richer for it. This is genuinely funny stuff, from their "give and take" attitudes to the banter which comes across almost vaudevillian in nature, we are constantly entertained by this piece. Someone needs to stage this now. It would be criminal not to.