Overview
Aicha most recently played Alia Aminu in Josie Rourke's production of THE VOTE at the Donmar Warehouse. Previous theatre work includes: Antony & Cleopatra at Chichester Festival Theatre and Liverpool Playhouse; The Taming of the Shrew at Stratford RSC; Welcome To Thebes and The Observer at the National Theatre; La Dispute at the Abbey Theatre Dublin; Yours Abundantly for Gillian Plowman Productions; Richard III for Southwark Playhouse; Blithe Spirit for Watford Palace; The Evocation of Papa Mas for Told By An Idiot; The Magic Carpet at the Lyric, Hammersmith; Celestina at Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh International Festival; Signes de vie with the Igi Theatre Company; The Vagina Monologues at the Arts Theatre; Monkey at the Young Vic; Wedding Story at the Soho Theatre; the title role in Andromache with Living Pictures; Macbeth and Yerma at BAC; The Old Curiosity Shop at the Southwark Playhouse; The Cherry Orchard, Demons and Dybbuks, The Black Dahlia and Buried Alive with Method and Madness; The Two Gentleman of Verona at the Globe; Antony and Cleopatra at the Riverside Studios; Julius Caesar at the Alley Theatre, Houston; and Inheritance with Eastern Angels. Recent films: The Fever and Claude Chabrol’s La comédie du pouvoir. Numerous television dramas and series, including: Skins, In Deep, Coronation Street, Casualty, Eastenders, Doctors and Kingmakers. Various productions for BBC Radio/World Service including; The Number One Ladies Detective Agency and Today.