←Recommendations of Heist!

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.

Oh that was just what I needed! Lisa and the pair of bumbling thieves she has created offer wonderful laugh out loud moments as they try to succeed in stealing a diamond, not really knowing the history behind it. The chaotic back and forth between the two thieves as well as their interaction with the unseen characters they address is brilliantly done and would offer two performers the chance to execute a wonderfully timed farcical piece that is sure to have an audience laughing out loud.

You've heard of organized crime. Heck, they even made a spin-off of the "Law & Order" franchise for it and brought back Det. Stabler. Well, this could be the next one: "Law & Order: STU - Stupid Thieves Unit." This pair makes the Three Stooges look like a Mensa meeting at the home of Laurel & Hardy. No diamonds were harmed in the making of this play, but you may laugh too loud at work (like I did) when you read it.

Riotously funny!

You ever get a sinking sensation in your chest when absolutely everything that should have gone right, goes wrong? Billy and Gene must feel a similar sensation thanks to everything Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend puts them through in "Heist!"

One of the neatest parts of this very funny comedy is that an audience feels sympathy for Billy and Gene. They're thieves, yes, but in a "Hey buddy, I've come up with a get-rich-quick scheme that'll have us on Easy Street" way. And their complete unpreparedness -- and moments of kind humanity -- is touching.

Heist! Is truly a laugh out loud page turner, while two very inexperienced thieves attempt to steal the Hope Diamond. Feriend does an incredible job of writing off stage (and unheard) characters that keeps the constant flow of plot and laughs going. I hope to have an opportunity to see this staged! Duh, Marianne!

Luckily for us, Gene Wilder and Billy the Kid haven't really thought through their attempt to steal the Hope Diamond. The collapse of their hair-brained plan is the source of the many, many laughs that fill Heist! There are unseen and unheard others who are vividly rendered, but wisely the focus remains on our bumbling protagonists. The Hope Diamond has probably never been safer.

Feriend keeps the one-liners zipping along in this frenetic two-hander. She wisely leaves all of the other characters assumed, which makes this an easy play to stage and also wrings a lot of laughs from the two actual characters continually reacting to the unseen/unheard. Lots of fun to read and would be just as entertaining on stage.