Metropolitan Magazine
Barcelona, Spain

Girl Next Door

Blonde blue-eyed Karen Loftus looks like the typical North American girl-next-door dream of every heterosexual male, and she knows it. What's more she knows what it's worth-a laugh. Many laughs, actually and she's out for all of them that she can garner during her 90-minute stand-up comedy show, American Woman, which brings to Barcelona this month.

The Los Angeles resident was on her way to Asia for a tour, when the war in Afghanistan changed her plans. Her brand of stand-up comedy combines physical sight gags with and acid narrative of life in the garden of gender. A critic called her Edinburgh Festival performance in 2000, "A self-satirizing essay in California sexual frankness and emotional dysfunction."

November 2001