Listen in as actor Peter Buck Dettmann (“Brody”), director Ben Liebert, and playwright/actor Larry Phillips (“Davey”) of Koalas are Dicks discuss turning a six-foot man into a koala, finding sight gags, inspiration from Charlie Sheen, writing to your actor’s Aussie accent, finding a balance between groan-worthy and intellectual humor, and using abstraction through the absurd to get closer to the ridiculous & terrible truth.
“…there’s a lovely irony that the koala is the only one who seems to understand how worthless what they’re doing is…it is very liberating, that fantasy element…being a six-foot-tall dude playing a tiny koala, if the audience follows you on that, they’re with you…”
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Randomly Specific Theatre presents
Koalas Are Dicks
written by Larry Phillips
directed by Ben Liebert
thru February 24, 2018
Theatre 80 St. Marks
80 St. Marks Place
Manhattan
tickets: $32, available via OvationTix
photos by Zoe Lintzeris