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Una Marson

13 December
London Calling by Una Marson play excerpt directed by Ayesha Casely-Hayford

Una Marson: Feminist, activist. Thinker, nationalist. Broadcaster, producer, editor. Writer in Jamaica and England, across the 20s to the 60s of the 20th century she wrote columns, features, reports, poems, manifestos, radio programmes – plays. She edited and published journals, produced culture, and she was the first black radio producer to be employed by the BBC. Via […]

Roll The Dice

15 December
Ayesha Casely-Hayford at The Stage Award 2018

“Everyone on Earth is carrying around an unseen history and that alone deserves some tolerance”from “I Am Becoming” by Michelle Obama Photo credit: Martin Eito Sometimes, for the whole day, I’m simply…Trying to not get TOOOO F*CKING FRUSTRATED TBH. These are my reflections on where I’ve come from and the truth of the strength and […]

My Fro & Me: Hair Stories from Women of Colour

02 December
Afro Archives A Performer's World By Ayesha Casely-Hayford

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 […]

We Dance We Work We Sing

19 March
A wooden box with a picture of an elder African Woman and a small child having her hair done

https://youtu.be/UbWqOWDvAy0 An Extract from “We Dance We Work We Sing” created and performed by Ayesha Casely-Hayford at Strood Libraries in Kent, with Lyrici Arts Solo Theatre  My solo theatre journey began through creation in workshop with director Colin Watkeys.  We Dance We Work We Sing Firstly, to begin at the beginning. I began creating this […]

“Field Management”

19 June
HIV Voices: Ayesha Casely-Hayford

“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 […]

Verbatim Theatre

18 November
In rehearsals for "Where Will We Live?" Verbatim theatre play by Lucy Curtis and Elizabeth Winkler feat. Ayesha Casely-Hayford, Ivana Mazza-Coates, Olivette Cole-Wilson. Christopher Sherwood, Hilary Derrett, Steven George and Tony McPerson

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 […]