The Red Room

The Red Room - 1995-2006

Lisa’s Artistic Directorship.

THE RED ROOM PRODUCTIONS, AWARDS AND INTERVENTIONS

This brilliant walkabout performance is rooted in the community and probes the very nature of community itself. The Guardian on Hoxton Story 2005 ****

2005 Hoxton Story by and dir. Lisa Goldman

Site-specific walkabout production, archive, booklet and website. (Video Here or View the Booklet HERE)

Snake Park by young people dir. Lisa Goldman

Community First Light video produced by Maysoon Pachachi

'Goldman’s Red Room company…once again confirms its reputation for both theatrical and political outspokenness… makes you want to take to the streets while you still can'

Financial Times on Animal 2003

2003/4 Animal by Kay Adshead dir. Lisa Goldman

Soho Theatre and national tour

Going Public curated by Lisa Goldman at the Tricycle Theatre

Involving over 40 companies and artists in a performed debate exploring theatre as a public form and practice.

"Neilson’ Stitching is the talking point of the fringe and one of the most exciting plays of the year. I left the theatre with my pulse, and my mind, racing.”

Time Out on Stitching 2002 Time Out Live Award 2003 Best off West End production

2002/3 Stitching by and dir. by Anthony Neilson

Co-pro with the Bush/Traverse/international tour included Schaubuhne and National theatre Slovenia

Winner- Best Off West End Production, Time Out Live Award

Winner- Best Actress Award, The Stage

Winner- Herald Angel Award

Nominee- Best Play Award, Evening Standard

2001 Set up Artists against the War

'…the audience was so moved, that for a while the applause was shocked into silence. Political theatre is alive again'

Evening Standard on the Bogus Woman 2000

2000/1 The Bogus Woman by Kay Adshead– dir. Lisa Goldman

The Traverse/Bush/international tour

Winner- Scotsman Fringe First Award

Winner- Best Actress Award, Manchester Evening News

Nominee- EMMA and Susan Smith Blackburn

2000 My Sky is Big 35mm short film

dir. Lisa Goldman

Played at National Film Theatre 1 and other festivals

1999 Leave to Remain by Leon London dir. Lisa Goldman

1998 Made in England by Parv Bancil dir. Lisa Goldman

Co-pro with Tabularasa 5 week London tour

'Lisa Goldman, said to have one of the best eyes for talent in the business'

(The Guardian – Ones to Watch 1998)

Seeing Red a three-part two month festival of dissent including Conspiracy. Residency BAC Studio 1 and café. 15 new short plays. Writers included Kay Adshead, Parv Bancil, Peter Barnes, Roddy McDevitt, Rebecca Pritchard, David Eldridge, Judy Upton, Rony Fraser-Munro, Dona Daly, Tony Craze. Writers were invited to respond to the 1st anniversary of a New Labour government and 30 years since 1968.

1997 Obsession by Rob Young dir. Lisa Goldman

BAC Critics Choice season

The Big Story Season – Red Room at the Finborough for 3 months

Winner - Guinness Ingenuity Award

Surfing by Rob Young dir. Lisa Goldman

Also BAC Critics Choice seasons and Assembly Rooms Edinburgh

The Censor by and dir. Anthony Neilson Winner- Best Fringe Play Award, Time Out

Winner- Best Fringe Play, Writers Guild Award

Also Duke of Yorks and New Ambassadors with the Royal Court

People on the River by Judy Upton dir. Lisa Goldman

Tuscon by Lisa Perotti dir. Janet Gordon

‘Not just the end of a play, but the end of an era’

Time Out on the Red Room leaving the Lion and Unicorn

1996 All below at the Red Room Theatre Above the Lion and Unicorn

Coming to Land Season

Winner - Guinness Ingenuity Award

White Unto Harvest by Mavis Howard dir. Lisa Goldman

Creamy by Leon London dir. Sarah Franckom

Sunspots by Judy Upton dir. Lisa Goldman

Also at BAC Critics Choice season

‘the venue is fast developing as one of the best on the fringe’

Whats On 1996

Bacillus by Kay Adshead dir. Orit Azaz

Stealing Souls by Judy Upton dir. Shabnam Shabazi

The Lottery Ticket by Roddy McDevitt dir. Yvonne McDevitt

The Body Trade by Deborah Lavin dir. Lisa Goldman

Liar Liar by Ned Cox dir. Lisa Goldman

1995 The Night before Christmas by and dir. Anthony Neilson

Shuttle by and dir. Joseph Crilly

The Shorewatchers’ House by Judy Upton dir.by Lisa Goldman

the Red Rooms first play