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Hi EveryoneJust to say our radio show 'MEANWHILE WITH THE BEARDED LADIES' starts tonight (11/09/07) on Radio 4 at 6.30. It features Fay, Susie, Charlotte and me along with Mark Addy, Cav Clerken, James Lance, Alex Lowe and a special appearance by Ronnie Corbett.
Its on for the next four weeks - that's every Tuesday. Or you can 'listen again' on the BBC web site.
Lots of Love
Oriane and FayNOW ONTO THE MORE IMPORTANT STUFF ABOUT US Oriane and Fay met touring in two Agatha Christie plays. Fay was playing an eighty year old Miss Marples and a glamerous murder while Oriane was a sexually repressed Doctors receptionist and an over emotional maid. They performed nightly to the old and infirm and soon discovered they shared a similar sense of humour about one of their co stars whom they imagined had legs that went into a fine point. So they set about writing their own show only to be side tracked into writing for others! They have co-writen the critically acclaimed BAFTA Award Winning Green Wing for Channel 4. The writing team were nominated for an RTS Award for Series One and Series Two. They currently have their sitcom 9 To MI5 under option with Feel Good Pictures and their childrens show Who's In The Shed went out on BBC1 earlier in the year. They have just finished writing some Lil-let Bumpers for Style TV They have jsut finished their new Radio 4 Sitcom MEANWHILE with McDougall and Donkin staring Ronnie Corbett, Mark Addy, Cavern Clarken, James Lance and Alex Lowe. It airs on Radio 4, 6.30 September 11th.
They have also written for My Parents Are Aliens 8, Smack the Pony where their Car Parking Sketch was nominated as the TV Comedy Moment of the Year on the BBCs TV Moments of 2002. They have written for shows such as Not Doing Christmas, Louise, Pinky and Perky, Big Hedz, 2DTV, Party Pieces, Man Stroke Woman 2, Friends Like These, Diner Party Inspectors, Yes Sir I can Boogie, Dead Ringers, Stupid and have also written two Diet Coke adverts (Call Me and French Kiss) as well as performed their show Wrecked at Pleasance, Edinburgh 2000.
SOME NICE THINGS ABOUT US...GREEN WINGGreen Wing feels like its been made by deeply abnormal people. It looks like a fairly safe bet for the years best comedy slick, silly with an unprecedented three strong female leads, an unprecedented hour long running time, innovative directorial style and the best musical breakfast sequence featuring grapefruit since Morecambe and Wise. Its not really recognisable as a sitcom the first 20 minutes feel like the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan, with characters and jokes being flung at you in a bewildering style. THE TIMES - CAITLIN MORANEight writers are credited and you imagine them all squabbling round a table until you guess that they separated and wrote segments; every scene is a sketch length, lending to a punchline which is generally mucky or surreal or both. A doctor comes into a room to find a buxom colleague weighing her breasts individually on the mailing scales. A woman wearing an eye patch replies to the inevitable concerned request for explanations: I got a sperm in the eye. There is an appealing almost Twin Peaks-like, feel to these scenes. THE GUARDIAN - MARK LAWSONHELEN AND GAIL ON RADIO 4Display heaps of humanity, cleverness and an exquisitely wicked sense of fun. Slyly written and brilliantly structured, its Ladies Of Letters with flick knives. RADIO TIMES Guardian Pick of the DaySPEEDING COMEDY LAB CHANNEL 4Todays Must See TV Pick of the Day THE INDEPENDENT A tragicomic portrayal of speed dating, where romance-seekers risk social carnage FINANCIAL TIMES There are some good laughs to be had, particularly involving a deluded Russian who thinks hes a spy and a lesbian with a face like a big lump of cheese. TIME OUTTHE BEARDED LADIES EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2004THREE WEEKS You are sure to appreciate the sarcastic, witty and comical genius that is the Ladies. THE SCOTSMAN This is impressive stuff This is comedy with its head on and there are flashes of sheer genius. They deserve all the thunder they can get THE STAGE To say that Oriane Messina and Fay Ruslings latest piece of scripting lives up to its name is to credit the show with no small achievement. Despite exploring dark issues like sexual frustration and harassment at work, the Bearded Ladies collection of sketches is definitively hilariousWhat fun we writers had writing this with some help from the wonderful Mark Heap