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Preview: AISHA at The Old Red Lion, King’s Head and Tristan Bates Theatres

by Staff Writer
November 4, 2018
Reading Time: 2 mins read
AISHA

AISHA

New young writer/director AJ presents his one woman play, AISHA, which through rhythmic verse, heavily influenced by contemporary spoken word, discusses the practice and repercussions of child marriage; a practice still perpetrated in the UK, with the Home Office estimating that between 5,000 and 8,000 young people a year are at risk.

AISHA is about an underage girl forced by her parents to marry a 51-year-old man at the age of 14. Aisha is sold in exchange for an expensive dowry, a dowry that Aisha’s parents use to better themselves and abandon their daughter: an act justified by cultural and religious traditions. The man that Aisha is forced to marry and live with is sadistic and abusive. She is forbidden to leave the house; communicate with the outside world; shower or bathe herself on a regular basis; and is denied every human right. How will she continue to cope?

AISHA is performed by Alex Jarrett, who can be seen in the BBC’s Les Miserables mini-series, alongside David Oyelowo, and Dominic West, in January 2019. She is also the former Young Major of Newham. 25-year-old writer, director and producer AJ, was raised in South East London, Woolwich.

       

He says: “I strive to create unconventional and thought-provoking work that audience members can deeply engage with. Theatre should be and can be used as a medium to transform society. Aisha is a clear representation of this; I chose to artistically portray the grave effect child marriage can have on a child, in hope that the conveying of this will bring to light a social-ill that is somehow dangerously overlooked.”

Production company AILIA is creating a new theatre for radical, free-spirited artists; and the open-minded spectator. A large percentage of the box office sales from AISHA will be donated to certain forced marriage, child marriage, and child sexual exploitation charitable organisations.

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AISHA is at The Old Red Lion 3rd – 8th December 2018, The King’s Head Theatre 9th – 10th December and The Tristan Bates Theatre 4th – 5th January 2019.

 

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