Pauline Goldsmith
Pauline Goldsmith is an actress, theatre maker and comedic writer from Belfast in the north of Ireland. She has lived in Glasgow and Belfast. Her plays include "Bright Colours Only" which has been created several times for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Career
[edit]Goldsmith is known in theatre for her Irish wake play Bright Colours Only. It was first performed in November 2001 at Tramway Theatre as part of the Dark Lights Festival. Since then the show has been performed over 20 years [1] It was part of the programme at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for two consecutive years, and in 2002 productions in England and in 2003 in Brazil. In 2017 it again returned to the Fringe when it was "highly recommended".[2]
Goldsmith won the 2004 Best Actress Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her performance in Samuel Beckett's 1972 play Not I.[3] She also performed her second play, Should've Had the Fish, at the Assembly Rooms at the Fringe Festival during August 2006.[4]
In 2012 she wrote and performed in a six part sketch show with Vivienne Grahame and Jo Sutherland for Radio Scotland. The premis for the show was people meeting at the school gates as they collected their children. The show was called "The Gates".[5]
In 2016 she appeared as the capitalist antagonist in "The Destroyed Room" which was apoclyptic play about modern conversations. It was performed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London by the group, "Vanishing Point"[6] In 2022 she was in the small cast of Debbie Tucker Green's "hang" at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow with Saskia Ashdown and Renee Williams.[7]
Film credits
[edit]Goldsmith has appeared in the following films:
- How High the Castle Walls (1997; short film)
- The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
- 16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
- Hikkimori (2007)
- Peacefire (2008)[8]
Awards
[edit]- Best Actress, Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2004)
- Creative Scotland (2006)[9]
See also
[edit]
References
[edit]- ^ "THESPIS 2004THESPIS 2004". Thespisfestival.de. 19 November 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ Stewart, Donald (25 August 2017). "Bright Colours only". FringeReview. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ THESPIS
- ^ The List - Edinburgh Festival, edinburghfestival.list.co.uk, 11 August 2006.
- ^ "BBC Radio Scotland - The Gates, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- ^ Fisher, Mark (28 February 2016). "The Destroyed Room review – from barbed chit-chat to apocalypse". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "hang review at Tron Theatre, Glasgow". The Stage. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ Pauline Goldsmith at IMDb
- ^ Maddy Costa (9 August 2006). "Pauline Goldsmith | Stage | The Guardian". The Guardian. Arts.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
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