Baby KaaFo Baby Kaafo means “Baby Don’t Cry” in Ga and is the title of a traditional lullaby from Ghana. Ga is a language spoken by the Ga people of Ghana, West Africa. Background To my Recording of Baby KaaFo I directed a series of plays for Equal Stages, including an extract from a play by […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s been an interesting experience performing as part of HIV Voices, creating a piece but only performing it for an evening then having weeks and months in between performing it again. Keeping going. An event like HIV Voices, it hasn’t exploded, like the HIV being talked about when I was younger, that surrounded Freddy Mercury’s […]
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 […]
