One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody of Love, Friendship and Shoes
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Where: Scherr Forum Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks.
Tickets: $39-$44.
Information: 805-449-2787 and www.civicarts plaza.com.
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Where: Scherr Forum Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks.
Tickets: $39-$44.
Information: 805-449-2787 and www.civicarts plaza.com.
Kerry Ipema’s smart, hilarious sendup of “Sex and the City” is more than a night of fandom.
It’s a love letter to female relationships.
“One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody of Love, Friendship and Shoes,” which comes to the Scherr Forum Theatre in Thousand Oaks Feb. 10, takes the audience back to the New York City of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda.
Ipema offers impersonations of these besties and the men in their life as she recalls iconic moments from all six seasons of the HBO series, which ran from 1998 to 2004.
“I’m proud to say I didn’t need much re-watching because I know the series so well,” says the 27-year-old New York actor who penned the show from memory along with her writing partner, TJ Dawe. “What was fun about it was remembering what iconic moments stuck out to us, because the audience that comes and sees the show is going to be like us, people who remember it for what it was.”
Think Manolos, Mr. Big and Cosmopolitan cocktails.
There’s the yellow Post-it breakup note from Jack Berger to Carrie that reads: “I’m sorry. I can’t. Don’t hate me.”
Remember the “naked dress” that Carrie wears on her first date with Big?
In honor of his one-time cameo on the series, even Donald Trump gets a mention.
“We have to address the elephant in the room, if you will,” Ipema says, adding it isn’t a “Sex and the City” sendup without good puns.
Designed “to feel like a bunch of girlfriends getting together for brunch,” the parody has been performed about 10 times since its opening last year at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival.
A review in the Winnipeg Free Press praises Ipema’s “impressions, physicality and comedic timing” but stresses, “it’s her witty incisive asides that make ‘One Woman Sex and the City’ worth the price of admission.”
“It’s refreshing to break that fourth wall and have it be a conversation between me and the audience because, really, the show is a collective tribute,” she says. “The times have changed, but the series is still very much an important part of our cultural discussion.”
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