Theatre

Alison Goldie - Actor and Director

Alison Goldie -  Drama Facilitator

The Weird Sisters in Loveplay

"Let's put on the show right here..."

Acting

Directing

  • Lady in Bed (2007 to 2011) solo play written by Alison Goldie and directed by Laura Eades in which Alison plays every character in the story of her love-life. 

        Performed all over UK (and in Bruges) at

        festivals including Edinburgh, Camden, Oxford,          Buxton and Devon; theatres such as the

        New Players, Hackney Empire Studio and

        Wimbledon Studio in London; The Space in Stroud,

        The Mill in Banbury.

        Buxton Fringe Festival 2008: Nominee for

        Best Performer, Best New Writing, Best Play.

        reviews

 

  • As one half of The Weird Sisters Theatre Company (1996 - 2002) devised and performed in 3 shows, It's Uncanny!, Loveplay and The Weird Sisters Get Around. Toured in Australia, USA, Canada and Europe.
    Awards: Best Female Performer: Orlando Fringe Festival 1999. Best Show: Adelaide Fringe Festival 2000, Vancouver Festival 1998 and 1999, and Victoria Festival 1998. Best Ensemble Nominee: The Stage, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2000

  • In the comedy troupe Spontaneous Combustion, performed in improvised and scripted shows, all over UK and regularly at the Edinburgh Festival from 1990-2000. 'Dazzling' The Guardian

  • Mornings After, writer/director Lucinda Coxon: Susan (Finborough Theatre)
  • Nothing If Not Critical by Stefan Silvis: The Critic, a New York middle-aged man (Gielgud Theatre, London Playwrights Awards)
  • The Seduction of Ms Sarah Hart by Caron Pascoe: Sarah Hart (director: Stella Duffy, Oval House Theatre)
  • Iron by Rona Munroe: Fay (Mountview Director's Course)
  • The 101 Bus-Stop by Annette Kamara: Mavis, a 66 year-old Londoner in Ways With Words prize-winning drama by (Stratford Circus)
  • Body Map: a live-art piece created with the artist Jo Fry examing one woman's life-stories as imprinted on her naked body

Reviews

  • Five shows for Vienna's English Theatre : Look Back In Anger (2006), Pitch Black, a modern update of Othello, (2007 and 2011), Sacrifice, a new work about knife-crime (2009), and Butterflies Are Free (2010).

  • 10 shows for Youth Music Theatre, chiefly devised musicals or modern adaptations by Alison eg. Much Ado About Nothing (2011) Also: shorter projects, devising shows in 3 days or directing scenes from Shakespeare, and longer projects eg Dead Heat (writer Steven Keyworth), a full-scale comedy-thriller musical (Bradford Playhouse 2008)
  • Isilwanyana Esoyekekayo by Andre Lemmer, winner of the Trinity Guildhall playwriting competition, and performed at The Garrick Theatre in London's West End (2010)
  • The Quest of the Four Princesses by Colin Hume, winner of Trinity Guildhall competition, featuring a cast of 20 ten year olds, at Unicorn Theatre (2012)
  • Laura Eades's solo show, Patchwork (2008)
  • Totally Over You (Mark Ravenhill) and Alfie (Bill Naughton) for CPA college.
  • Volpone by Ben Jonson (Hoxton Hall) for The Hub (with Jonathan Salisbury).
  • Our Shadows. Short play devised and directed in 4 days with gifted and talented 14 year olds from Newham in East End of London. Performed at Stratford Circus June 2005.
  • London Isn't Venice - Yet:comedy street theatre piece using masks with an eco-message performed at sites up and down the River Thames.
  • Held auditions and directed pieces for the new intake of The National Youth Theatre 2006.

  • Shows for The Rainbow Group (learning disabled actors) including Vampires Bite Back and Metal Man


 

 

 

 

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