Slights & Others v Crossroads Pantomimes Ltd & Others: A Case Summary Slights & Others v Crossroads Pantomimes Ltd and Others is a recent employment tribunal case looking at the legal definition of workers. It has linked my legal and creative worlds and opened up a window into the pantomime business. Equity, the British Actors’ […]
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MARCH ends at The Albany Theatre with She Talks To Beethoven by Adrienne Kennedy As part of a festival of new directors by Stone Crabs Theatre Company, supporting the future of theatre making, I played the “radio voice” in She Talks To Beethoven – experimental theatre! Although written in 1989, I can’t work out how many […]
Body in a Bag
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog There’s a first time for everything. I went to visit my friend and brilliant artist Jenny Hayton at her workplace in Central Saint Martins, King’s Cross. I left with my body in a bag. Before that, we viewed Jenny’s brilliant display of some of her work with her performance costume […]
Know Before You Judge
A Time To Speak – Hugh Wyld’s project to get people talking about HIV and AIDS – had its first theatre stage appearance on 8th October 2014. We performed at the LOST Theatre to a wonderful audience who we hope left inspired and talking about what they had seen. A group of us wrote and […]
Solo Reflections
It’s been a few weeks since my performance in Claire Dowie’s “Adult Child Dead Child” at The LOST Theatre as part of the 3rd Face to Face Festival of Solo Theatre. Colin Watkeys has put together a company of actors, which includes me. We’re performing alongside Claire, inspired by her energy and then trying to […]
Press Night
Our first review for the Face to Face Festival of Solo Performance is in and it’s a good one. Written by Terry Eastham, you can read it here. It reviews the press launch that took place at The LOST Theatre on 4th September 2014. As part of Claire Dowie’s new company, I performed Claire’s play Adult […]
Be A Hero
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]
My Soul
Do we sell our souls every day to social media? Or can it be a healthy way to share and be alive? Steven Berkoff (actor, director, playwright and author) recently said “Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague” but his new play “Religion and Anarchy” at the Jermyn Street Theatre will be shared, […]
RIP Paul Bhattacharjee, Richard Gent and Cory Monteith
What a sad and reflective week in the acting world. The death of Cory Monteith by drug overdose and the mysteriously found bodies of Paul Bhattacharjee and Richard Gent have been reported by the media this week. I expect there will be questions never answered but The Stage has taken these events as an opportunity […]
Trying to Make Sense of It All
Friendship is a funny thang. A lesson learnt over years of having great fun and great falls is that friendships need just as much love, care and time as romantic relationships. This week I saw Rosie Wilby (comedian, musician, writer, broadcaster) perform at The Lost Theatre as part of the “Face to Face Festival” run by […]