←Recommendations of O Burgled Companion, Thou Hast Pilfered Mine Heart

I will be smiling for a good long while, having read this sweet and tart short piece featuring questionable ethics, questionable timing, and unquestionable desire.

Work crushes are always complicated. But you gotta take a chance when the time is right...this was NOT the time. But Knuckles' flowery poetry is pretty hard to resist anyway! Adorable!

Knuckles’ timing is spectacularly terrible, but sometimes you just have to listen to your heart. And write poetry. A delightfully sweet cartoon of a rom-com, with the fine-tuned mechanics of a Swiss watch.

02.16.26 - Come for the bank robbing, stay for the Hallmark rom-com. A 10 minute hearts-and-robbers play was the last thing on my Erstwhile bingo card, but damn if David Lipschutz doesn't make it work. Would love to watch an audience have a needle-drop moment when Knuckles asks Goober out on a date with the cops closing in.

In its own way, Lipschutz's short play is the romcom you didn't see coming. Like any good romcom, the characters' gender doesn't matter. They have real chemistry, thanks to a tight script and wonderfully creative situation. This charming play will be a hit at any festival.

Who knows when love will arch its plucky bow and strike the heart of one’s desire? There is no time, there is no season, for, as the Bard once noted, love looks not with the eye, but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Or something like that. This ode to love is a true gift on this day of Valentines. Just make sure Goober and Knuckles get the Miranda warning. Thank you, David.

I love an unlikely love story! This short and silly play has great dialogue and high stakes, but there is still time for the most ridiculous poem. Zany and fabulous!

Even though Lipschutz spells it out in his description, the inciting incident still took me by surprise, and that's saying something about the overall tight and zippy construction of this short. Tremendously funny and enjoyable in a brief period of time. A definite delight in this tale that somehow looks to the future when the present is so heavy, man. I definitely dig. I dig.