Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress
Eve, the evil tempter, the reason for man’s expulsion from the garden of Eden. Misunderstood and vilified – I’ve been given a chance to present a brighter side of the Adam and Eve story in a play called “Adam’s eve” by Simon David. This play is quirky and quite complicated but it has positivity as […]
Less than a week to go until Festival week at The LOST Theatre. My three performances will all have their second chance in the world as part of the 3rd Face to Face Festival of Solo Performance starting 6th October 2014: on 6th October as part of Claire Dowie’s company in “Adult Child/Dead Child”; on […]
Exhibit B” (by Brett Bailey) was due to open at the Barbican in London, despite all the protests against it. “Exhibit B critiques the ‘human zoos’ and ethnographic displays that showed Africans as objects of scientific curiosity through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Translated here into twelve tableaux, each features motionless performers placed in […]
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 […]
When I left my gorgeous and hard-worked for job as a solicitor to go to drama school with others 10 years my junior I found myself in a panic of feeling very irresponsible. I decided I better join my union and start to do something that reminded me I was a grown-up. I’ve not looked […]
Last night, 4th July 2014, we celebrated Independence Day at Morley College. It was combined with the annual Morley College summer performance show – “Dance Fusion”. The tradition of summer dance shows at Morley College goes way way back. The earliest record is of dance performances on the stage at Morley in 1935. We had […]
I’ve begun creating my solo theatre piece So far, I’ve called it “Connie Speaks”. My first character is based on one of my grandmothers in Ghana. She is a strong woman who I don’t actually know that well. I didn’t grow up with her and we are not close in proximity or in spirit, unfortunately. […]
On Monday 6th October 2014 at The LOST Theatre in Vauxhall… I’ll be performing Adult Child/Dead Child by Claire Dowie with six other artists including Claire Dowie herself, Deidre Strath, Lola Kotey, Martin Stuart and Tania Rodrigues. As its title suggests, this play is intense. But it’s also full of strength and lightness. Adult Child/Dead […]
Creating my own theatre work for solo performance is intense, random and liberating. The Lost Theatre in Vauxhall is giving me a stage to do it on. With a group of others also working on their own solo pieces we are creating our work via workshops with director Colin Watkeys. Colin adopts my favourite directorial […]
On 8th October 2014 at The LOST Theatre in Vauxhall… I’m taking part in the next stages of Hugh Wyld’s exciting and important project to raise awareness and open discussion about HIV in people’s lives today. The project is called “A Time To Speak”. With a small group of actors and writers, “A Time to […]
