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 […]
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Solo Reflections
It’s been a few weeks since my performance in Claire Dowie’s “Adult Child Dead Child” at The LOST Theatre as part of the 3rd Face to Face Festival of Solo Theatre. Colin Watkeys has put together a company of actors, which includes me. We’re performing alongside Claire, inspired by her energy and then trying to […]
Press Night
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 […]
Stand up & be counted: Equity UK
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 […]
“Connie Speaks” by Ayesha Casely-Hayford
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. […]
“Adult Child/Dead Child” by Claire Dowie
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 […]
Theatre: “New Shoots”
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 […]