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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

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