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…”

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