Jose Solís takes a look at Koalas Are Dicks:
According to Larry Phillips' play Koalas Are Dicks, but they've got nothing compared to humans. The marsupial at the center of the play (running at Theatre 80 in the East Village) is named Brody (Peter Buck Dettmann) and he's the biggest TV star in America. After being discovered by a visionary producer outside an Australian airport, he was flown to the US, where he was trained and eventually was given the lead in a sitcom. But Brody's had enough of the Hollywood life and has gone down a rabbit hole of drugs, sex and alcohol as his lawyer (Patrick T. Horn) re-negotiates his contract. While the people closest to him try to get him out of his existential funk, Brody mopes and follows a path that the tabloids have made way too familiar to us. . . . |
