Hair Stories On 28th November 2017 “My Fro & Me” – Hair Stories from Women of Colour – was at The National Theatre, London, UK. We talked hair, culture, identity, Eurocentric ideals of beauty on our stage and screens, and discrimination. Endlessly Afro. “The prime responsibility of the theatre is to show a culture its […]
Solo Theatre My solo theatre piece created in workshop with director Colin Watkeys is called “We Dance We Work We Sing”. I used Colin’s creative techniques to create my show. Everyone can learn these techniques! Just go along to his Face to Face Festivals and workshops currently at the Actors Centre, Covent Garden. We Dance We Work We […]
Rebecca, Arabna & Connie – three voices I look forwarding to sharing on 6th August at Theatre N16 in Balham performing my solo work for the first time this year. “Rebecca, Arabna & Connie” or “We Dance, We Work, We Sing” is my solo theatre creation developed at The Face to Face Festival with Colin […]
“Field Management” by Chris Adams, is a new play written for HIV Voices commissioned by Hugh Wyld. On 16th June 2016, HIV voices was presented as part of ‘Second | Half” – a season of performances hosted by Antic Face at the Tristan Bates Theatre. “Field Management” is a brand new voice for our HIV […]
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 […]
The provision of social housing. The term “gentrification”. Rising housing prices? Everyone is affected, “rich” and “poor”. When an area has been neglected, degraded, set on fire… then rises – the renaissance of Brixton! When the ones who helped to re-build the area can no longer afford to live there…what will Brixton become? I’ve found […]
Brixton – a changing face. It’s good, it’s bad. I was born in South London, Battersea started out school in Soho but we later moved to Kent (slightly different, less red lights). I returned to London after uni and lived all around finally ending up back in South London, Brixton. It’s felt like home but recently […]
When I look at you face to face and share my stories, it confirms I am not alone. I have been creating solo shows since I left drama school in 2012. Going to a relatively unknown drama school, without accreditation (and which has since shut down), has given me wings of opportunity. The syllabus was […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog My Granny Becky. My mum’s mum. A big warm laugh and a warrior’s strength. I love her so much that as a child, I took her name. I wanted to be as close to her as possible. My granny Becky is the grandparent I have always been closest too. She […]
Ayesha Casely-Hayford | Actress blog Trust – if you don’t have trust, you have nothing. If you don’t have trust it just won’t work. It is understandable that people like to keep working with people that they know and trust. We like to recruit from a college or uni that we are familiar with, from […]
