The Ruckus Theater Makes Promising Chicago Debut With “Heist Play”

Simultaneously an homage to and deconstruction of the film noir genre, Heist Play is the story of three down-and-out twenty-somethings going nowhere slowly, wallowing in the poetic tragedy of their own alcoholism. After abandoning a half-assed attempt at robbery, roommates Nick (Joshua Davis) and Tommy (Byron Melton) devise the “perfect heist,” which they realize would actually make a perfect film noir movie. The script-writing process doesn’t quite go as planned, Nick runs away with Tommy’s girlfriend Marianne (Melissa Pryor), Tommy and Marianne accidentally put a hit out on Nick, and all the while a police officer with something to prove (Katie Canavan) tracks Nick across the country, believing him to be involved in a series of jewelry heists.

Full article here from Chicagoist.
http://chicagoist.com/2009/08/22/the_ruckus_theater_makes_promising.php

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