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  • Jan Ravens headlines at Orange Tree Theatre

    Jan Ravens headlines at Orange Tree Theatre

    3rd February 2010 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Funny Women brought impressionist Jan Ravens to the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond on Sunday – the theatre, which opened in 1971 has been entertaining loyal followers for years with its alternative shows and can boast the only theatre "in a round" in London. Far from giving the performers neck-ache, the layout creates a unique and intimate connection between performer and the audience, although the performer could feel an edge...

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  • Miss London, the ‘Miss Dynamite of Comedy’, wins Funny Women Final 2009

    Miss London, the ‘Miss Dynamite of Comedy’, wins Funny Women Final 2009

    23rd September 2009 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this

    Satirical impressionist, and host of the Funny Women 2009 finals, Jan Ravens, wryly remarked at the start of the evening:  “It’s not a competition of course, we don’t like to be competitive do we girls, competitive in a cooperative way perhaps…”  No, of course we don’t, unless we’re enjoying a hearty, harmless game of lacrosse or netball, but to send up yet another stereotype of women, if this year’s finals...

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Charlotte Browne

Charlotte Browne

Charlotte hails from the Georgian city of Bath, a beautiful but at times stifling place to grow up in. Tired of seeing the same old faces every time she went out (and, equally, they were probably a bit sick of seeing hers every Friday night too) she moved to London to pursue her dream of becoming a famous script writer. This goal is yet to be achieved but to distract herself from this failure she writes the occasional article for women's magazines, plays drums to vent rage and presents an irreverant and nonsensical show on hospital radio at The Royal London Hospital, where she gets to meet some lovely patients. Probably at her happiest dancing around the kitchen to Chic with a cleared surface to work with, she loves most genres of music but particularly stuff from the '70s as she reckons it was one of the most exciting and eclectic decades for music ever