A review by frejola
Dada Woof Papa Hot: A Play by Peter Parnell

4.0

Although a bit to the side of sitcom dramaturgy, this comedy performs well in what it sets out to do. First, it is a pretty accurate dramatization of the lives of gay dads. I should know because I'm one. And in fact, in my household I'm Dada and my husband is Papa to our kids - thus the title immediately grabbed me when I spotted a billboard of the play in NYC. The characters' banter is light, sometimes witty, each character is full fledged and rounded, the milieu is white upper middle class, the concerns are those of very privileged people, but there's a good parade of the issues gay parents face one time or another. So I see I'm not alone at all. And I cried at the end, Parnell definitely knows how to pull his strings admirably. Again, kudos for empathetic characters. Because my kids are already older than the children of the gay couples in the play, we now face many other issues that the play is blind to. That means that I sometimes thought that the main characters are a bit naive because they still can't see the troubles ahead (and that goes to heterosexual parents too, of course).