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With You Always is a new play by BBC award-winning playwright Mark Ralph-Bowman. Ayesha Casely-Hayford | blog John Sailsman (actor, writer, director) is directing us. I’ve never worked with Mark, John or any of the cast for that matter so this is another exciting and new adventure. With You Always looks at western development investment […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog Where better to spend International Women’s Day than at a charity event dedicated to raising awareness of Women’s issues around the world. Even more than that, where better to spend International Women’s Day than at a charity event organised by one of the strongest women in my life, my cousin […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
