Review: Heist Play/The Ruckus Theater
The revised version of Mitch Vermeersch's “Heist Play” (first staged in 2009) is an ambitious attempt to fold twenty-first-century hipster angst into the shadowy embrace of postwar film noir. Opening to the portentous strains of Miklos Rosza's theme music for “Double Indemnity,” followed by 1940s-style projected titles and credits, director Alison Shoemaker's production softens the […]