Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog The National Theatre has been organising a series of discussions on plays. It has called it the Black Plays Series. I made it to the discussion called ‘Township plays”, which was led by Natasha Bonnelame. We looked at and discussed plays that were created via a workshop process by Athol […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog TRAID – or Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development -is a company working with secondhand clothing. ‘Change your clothes for good’, ‘Secondhand First’. TRAID manages clothes donation banks and arranges to collect second hand clothing from homes. It recycles clothes and produces new designs in collaboration with fashion designers […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog It has not been an aspiration of mine to be a chair, but when the opportunity came, I took it. I was happy to be a chair for my local Equity branch meeting whilst the real chair and vice chair were away performing. Equity, in particular my branch The West and […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog Scaffold Shakespeare is a theatre company founded by a small group of actors and directors: Annabelle Brown, Tobias Deacon, Bryn Holding and Tom Latter. Self-proclaimed Shakespeare obsessives. Scaffold Shakespeare say Shakespeare “unites us all” and that his texts are “something we can build upon, clamber over, and root around within”. Since […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog A conference for 350 people, with no agenda – Devoted and Disgruntled. With invitation from their artistic director Phelim McDermott, the Improbable Theatre company created and have been successfully hosting Devoted and Disgruntled for ten years. It is a two and a half day conference for the arts and performance industry. Anyone […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog I spent Christmas and the lead up to the New Year in Ghana – Happiness in Ghana. With my granny, aunts, uncles, cousins and my just turned three-year old nephew, Isaiah. Waking up to palm trees, sunshine and stepping out of the house to be greeted by warmth. It’s a […]
4th December saw the launch of Hugh Wyld’s HIV Voices Hosted by a charity in London, Positive East, we had an evening of discussion and performance. Hugh had a conversation with one of the trustees of the Terrence Higgins Trust, Ant Babajee and I danced to the beat of Hatty Carmen’s drum, including smacking my […]
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 […]
Does it matter how I got there? Or is just the fact I got there all that’s relevant?! We performed Simon David’s “Adam’s eve” to a full house. We put the play on and we’ve received three stars in our first review by Samantha Chamberlaine writing for The Upcoming. I feel like the arrival at this point […]
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 […]
