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One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody of Love, Friendship and Shoes

FOUR STARS The TV series was always a guilty pleasure but this show can be savoured with head held high.

FOUR STARS | The TV series was always a guilty pleasure but this show can be savoured with head held high

(Yellow Flamingo Productions)

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Company:Yellow Flamingo Productions, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Genre:Play Comedy

Venue:3 The Playhouse Studio

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New Yorker Kerry Ipema teams up with Fringe baron TJ Dawe to resurrect in a New York hour the seminal HBO dramedy of the late90s.

The audience is also treated to sharp satire and sassy asides in this breakneck riff through all six seasons.- Lara Rae

It's hard tobelieve the show debuted nearly 20 years ago, so cloyingly familiar are Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha andMiranda.Ipemarenders themwell,alongwith the myriad of insipid men who court them.

The audience is also treated to sharp satire and sassy asides in this breakneck riff through all six seasons.

"It was a show about the Golden Girls when they were young,"is a line thatputs the wholeSex and the Cityphenomenon in itsproper setting.

The set issparethere isn't one. The whole enterprise is created by one woman's voice and gestures.Sex andthe Citywas always a guilty pleasurebut this funnyshow can besavouredwithhead held high.