At one venue we had a 91 year old man in the audience, which we thought was simply amazing. All our audiences were curious about how we two black women were going to pull off an Oscar Wilde play with nine characters.
We had standing ovations and encouraging compliments. Our rural tour audience also blessed us with hilarious heckling and very enthusiastic audience participation.
On a rural tour one of the great things about audience participation is that the audience knows each other. They would tease each other, and heckle each other. It was lovely, like being amongst family and friends. 
Š 2019 Ayesha Casely-Hayford Photo credits: Harry Elletson
