Magazine | October 2011

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Remember remember the 10th of November...for Funny Women London Nights!

31st October 2011

With the weekend in sight and London's Leicester Square already hopping, Thursday has been a much better time for our Funny Women London Nights! November's gig is fast approaching, and we're tremendously pleased to be bringing you another top-notch lineup for that fateful day:

Host Luisa Omielan "5 Stars" -Three Weeks

Luisa has funny bones! Having gigged in London and performed the last few years at both Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Luisa recently ventured to Chicago and trained in the Improv capital at Second City and Improv Olympic, she gigged all over Illinois and is now back in London, playing an Improv residency on the S…

30th October 2011

An improviser learns two very basic but crucial lessons when starting out that will form the foundation of every scene: Don’t be prepared and always say yes. Wh ich is pretty much how I got pregnant in the first place. So after saying yes and not being prepared, nine months later we welcomed our first, Elianna, to the world. You may shriek at the idea of not being prepared for a baby’s arrival, but I mean mentally. All tangible items relating to babies are a must for readiness. Mentally, accept that whatever you have visualised or rehearsed in your head will be of little use once the baby is in your life.

Soon I stopped thinking 'but the boo…

26th October 2011

From April to June 2012, Shakespeare's Globe is bringing theatre companies from all around the world to perform all 37 of Shakespeare's players in 37 different languages as part of their unique Globe to Globe festival.

Sound cool? Well here's your chance to get involved!

The Globe is looking talented multi-linguists to work on these productions, so if you're fluent in any of the following languages, please get in touch:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Belarusian, British Sign Language, Cantonese, Dari, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi,IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, Italian, Japanese, Korean, …

25th October 2011

90 years after women first got the vote, they are still in effect excluded from politics. Men outnumber women 4 to 1 in Parliament and progress is painfully slow: since 1997 the number of women in Parliament has increased by just four percent.

The views and experiences of one half of the country are not being heard.

Counting Women In is a groundbreaking new campaign launched to challenge this sluggish pace of change. The Fawcett Society, the Hansard Society, the Electoral Reform Society, the Centre for Women and Democrazy and Unlock Democracy have come together to change the culture so that is works for, not against women and fight to ensure women have a presence and voice i…

24th October 2011

As the sun begins to wane and winter coats are being dredged out from the back of the wardrobe, Funny Women are excited to be sending 2010 Winners Thankless Child to perform in sunny Cyprus as part of a long-running series in partnership with the Londa Hotel in a charity fundraiser for the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society.

General Manager of the Londa, Jochen Niemann comments, 'It' is an exciting prospect to offer such young, new talent the chance to perform for a totally different audience. Limassol is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city and welcomes quality comedy. That is why we are proud to host the Funny Women comedy series here at the Londa."

Funny Women have been perf…