Next Up
November 30, 2011 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley will be performing in the Bellrock Christmas Show on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd December. Details and ticket info to follow.
Bellrock Company Lab
October 4, 2011 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley is working with the newly named Bellrock Company to produce their second Lab performance at the Tron Theatre on Sunday 16th October. This months showing will be an exciting presentation of Hamlet, the Bad Quarto. See Tron Theatre Glasgow website for more details and tickets.
Go Now
August 30, 2011 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley is performing in Go Now at Arches Live on 23rd and 24th September
Futureproof – Post Festival
August 30, 2011 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley has just finished a run of Futureproof at the Edinburgh Festival. If you missed it you can still see it at Dundee Rep from 31st August until 10th September.
Don Giovanni and Futureproof
June 9, 2011 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley is currently in rehearsals for Don Giovanni. Which will be performed as part of the Oran Mor ‘classic cuts’ season from June 27th until July 2nd and will then begin rehearsals for Futureproof by Lynda Radley, performed at the Traverse for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before a 2 week run at Dundee Rep Theatre.
Mother Courage
February 11, 2011 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley is currently in rehearsals for Mother Courage with Birds of Paradise, in the part of Kattrin.
This will tour from March until April 2nd.
Snow Queen
November 8, 2010 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley is currently in rehearsals for the Snow Queen at the Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh where she will perform from December 2nd – 31st.
Hansel and Gretel has been nominated for two awards in New York
May 17, 2010 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Nominations for the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this morning at the New York Friars Club by former Drama Desk Award winners Brian Stokes Mitchell and Cady Huffman. They were joined for the announcement by William Wolf, Drama Desk President, Barbara Siegel, Chairperson of the Drama Desk Nominating Committee, Robert R. Blume, Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards ceremony, and Randie Levine-Miller, Director of Special Events for the Drama Desk.
In keeping with the Drama Desk’s unique mission, the nominators considered shows that opened on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the 2009/2010 season in the same competitive categories. Final deliberations took place at The Travel Inn in New York City.
The 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be held Sunday, May 23, 2010 in the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. The awards show will be webcast live for the eighth year in a row.
Hansel and Gretel is up for Outstanding Set Design and Unique Theatrical Experience.
Sense Synopsis
April 16, 2010 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Five stories about teenagers led by their senses into playful, obsessive and extreme scenarios where reality becomes intensified and extraordinary.
Vivid characters in complex relationships played out at parties and swimming pools, in clubs, hospitals and kebab shops.
Sense is a poetic journey into touching, inhaling, tasting, hearing and seeing life with incredible intensity.
Interlinked but independent each ‘Sense’ is a play in its own right and you can see Ashley at
SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE
Sense: Nose & Skin
Thursday 13 May 10.30
Saturday 15 May 16.00
Duration: 60 minutes
Sense: Eyes, Ears & Tongue
Thursday 13 May 19.00
Friday 14 May 10.30
Saturday 15 May 19.00
Duration: 90 minutes
For more details and to book tickets click here.
Listen to Ashley in The Seagull on BBC Radio 3
February 1, 2010 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
THE SEAGULL
Siobhan Redmond and Paul Higgins head a cast of leading Scottish actors in this new production of Chekhov’s classic drama. In part a tragic play about eternally unhappy people, Chekhov has always surprised his audiences by viewing it as a comedy, poking fun at human folly. All the characters are dissatisfied with their lives. Some desire love. Some yearn for success. Some crave artistic genius. But no one ever seems to attain happiness. When famous actress Irina Arkadina arrives to spend the summer on her brother Sorin’s country estate, tempers inevitably get frayed.
Ashley plays the part of Nina.
The BBC iPlayer may only be available to listen to for 1 month. If you are unable to hear the play after this please contact Ashley about her radio work.
Peer Gynt Trailer
April 10, 2009 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Trailer for Peer Gynt from before Ashley joined. The show is still the same with a majority of cast members remaining.
Peer Gynt Synopsis
March 30, 2009 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
This raucous and radical interpretation of Ibsen’s classic play takes the audience on a truly wild theatrical journey. An exhilarating tale of a life lived on the edge, this production is a mix of trolls, madmen, dancing girls and live music.
Peer Gynt is a dreamer, a liar and a serial womaniser. Cast out from his home town, Peer embarks on a thrilling and astonishing adventure in search of fame and fortune that takes him from Norway to Africa and eventually back home again.
Be prepared for a theatrical roller-coaster ride through one of the most renowned works of modern literature.
This exciting co-production brings together two of Scotland’s most acclaimed theatre companies, the National Theatre of Scotland and the Dundee Rep Ensemble.
Following the overwhelming success of Black Watch in bite08, the multi-award winning company the National Theatre of Scotland returns to the Barbican.
Dundee Rep Theatre is Scotland’s only resident ensemble company of actors. Under the artistic direction of James Brining, the Ensemble continues to broaden the type of work it undertakes to help realise the potential of Scotland’s unique artistic resources.
Co-produced by Dundee Rep Ensemble and the National Theatre of Scotland. Revival supported by Barbican Bite09.
Baby Baby Flyer
February 2, 2009 | Filed Under Featured, Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley is currently appearing in Baby Baby in association with Shetland Arts.
Check out the flyer and get more information by clicking the title above.
For more information check out these links
Stellar Quines Theatre Company
Nasty, Brutish and Short
November 4, 2008 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Completed Runs:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
06/11/2008 - 15/11/2008
Andy Duffy’s Nasty, Brutish and Short finds two brothers, Jim and Luke, holed up in a Glasgow flat. No job, no money and it looks like the only things on offer are all bad. As the options start to run out, Jim takes what isn’t his and sets the two brothers on a collision course . . .
Think about it.
Forget the money.
Picture yourself there.
The adrenaline.
The fear.
365 – List Feature
August 24, 2008 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
The official line is that the actors playing the teenagers leaving residential care homes, whose interlinked lives make up the meat of 365 are ‘mostly aged between 16 and 24’, but well over half of them have already graduated. I sit down with Helen Mallon, best known for her work in NTS flagship show The Wolves in the Walls, fiercely intelligent newcomer Simone James, brought up from London for this production, and
Ashley Smith, whose expressionless, lovely features are currently slapped all over the publicity for the show.
Possibly because I’ve half-convinced myself they’re all teenagers, I’m initially surprised at their articulacy and the depth of their knowledge. But then, they’ve been hired for it.
365 – National Theatre Scotland
August 12, 2008 | Filed Under Shows | Leave a Comment
Ashley Smith will be performing with the National Theatre Scotland in the play 365.
Edinburgh Festival
Wed 13th, Friday 15th, Saturday 16th – Playhouse Theatre at 8pm.
London
Sat 13 – 2.30pm, Wed 17 – 1.30pm, Sat 20 – 2.30pm, Wed 24 – 1.30pm, Sat 27 – 2.30pm – Lyric Hammersmith, times vary.
J is 16. She has so much to hope for. Tonight is the first night of the rest of her life – her first night in her own place. She is finally free of the faceless and noisy world of corporate parenting that has made up her short life. And here, in this flat, she can learn the skills needed to become an adult – budgeting, shopping, cooking, cleaning…
But J won’t use her full name. She won’t look at a clock or wear a watch and has no understanding of time. She has no idea what her story is, what her truth is. She is a jumbled mixture of melted memories and until she can make some sense of it, J hasn’t really got a chance. Tonight, in the silence, she must begin to learn a lifetime.
J is one of fourteen young people we meet, who every day and night of every year, piece together fragments of their past to create a future. 365 is the story of trying to understand your own story. Of trying to become an adult.
There are currently over 70,000 children in care in the UK and, on average, they pass through eleven stages of being “looked after” by the state. 365 is a crucial new piece of work from the National Theatre of Scotland that lays bare the ordeals of just some of these young people, who with their humour, imagination and raw courage take their first faltering steps towards adulthood.
Set in the transitory and surreal world of a practice flat – one of society’s mechanisms to gently introduce young people in care to the outside world – 365 is a powerfully visual piece of theatre created by the National Theatre of Scotland’s Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone with text by David Harrower, one of our generation’s leading playwrights. Also featuring a specially composed song by Paul Buchanan of the Blue Nile and choreography by Frantic Assembly’s Steven Hoggett (Black Watch).
If you are interested in seeing her at either of these events, please contact AshleyJadeSmith@googlemail.com