Red Noir was written by Anne Waldman and directed by Judith Malina. The play premiered at The Living Theatre in December 2009. Red Noir is a Buddhist Anarchist detective thriller, set in the shadows of the Lower East Side. Many greedy hands close a black market deal; a glamorous detective pursues a corporate agent with a values containing danger; a rogue lab technician follows them with a values containing hope; a chorus of anarchists brings sanity and peace to a world of strife and struggle. Poet Anne Waldman derived Red Noir from the metaphors of film noir and gangster movies. The play is a drama of technology, erotics... and politics.