"...Moyo Akande, meanwhile, is the absolute picture of stately queenliness as Hippolyta. Both stand out for the naturalism and clarity of their delivery." THE STAGE
"As Emilia and Hyppolita, Torchia and Moyo Akandé are stunning. They play their sisterly love tenderly, even though Akandé's queen isn't afraid to remind her duties to her counterpart." BROADWAYWORLD.COM
"Jude Akuwudike and Moyo Akandé bring a nice wry twist to Theseus and Hippolyta" THE FINANCIAL TIMES
"The scenes with the three witches are suitably unsettling and other worldly, these weird wailing sisters’ pale faces potent to behold."
THE STAGE
"Eve Best's directorial debut is a cracking – at times, terrifying – production of Macbeth..."
THE TELEGRAPH
"...by far the most spiritedly rib-tickling version of this blackest of tragedies that one has ever seen."
THE INDEPENDENT
"The chief virtue of the production is its clarity"
THE EVENING STANDARD
"..this is a powerful and tense production which fits the bill nicely for the mid point in this year's Globe season."
LONDON THEATRE
“Beattie plays River, an elderly, infirm woman who is being cared for by Moyo Akandé’s brilliantly realised “carebot”, Ida. In this cleverly twisting play, Butucea examines all the things that make us human: free will, imagination, music, laughter – and death.”
THE STAGE
“Finally, Beattie as River and Akande as Ida transcend the bounds of bad-tech as Butucea lays bare the power of the imagination that liberated us from being cogs in the machine to connect us all.”
HERALD SCOTLAND
”Vlad Butucea’s Glowstick approaches its subject with a flourish of imaginative poetics. Beattie plays (with tremendous empathy) a wheelchair-bound woman who is in terrible pain and under the care of a robot (played with delightful humour by Moyo Akande).”
SCOTTISH STAGE
"Caster Semenya, the South African runner makes an appearance, too, beautifully played by Moyo Akandé, who puts her 6ft stature to great advantage, towering above the ignorant doctor trying to force her to be gender tested. “I just want to run”, she says. Gender is irrelevant here."
OH DEARISM.COM
"There’s also a good scene of theatrical engagement and rare clarity where South African athlete Caster Semenya (Moyo Akande) is interrogated about her gender by a doctor."
THE STAGE
"...it's hard not to like The Lightning Child. The piece energises the audience with its confrontational cheek and revealing lurches of tone, aided by some winningly droll performances."
THE INDEPENDENT
…a typically Drummondesque mix of a pop-culture facade that ushers in some deceptively serious dramatic, philosophical and moral points about politics and what passes for democracy.” THE HERALD
"Moyo Akandé plays George, an eight-year-old girl... Akandé is superb, bringing a real sense of a child’s frailty to the role. Roy allows Akande to get right under the notion that skin colour creates difference." THE STAGE
"In a twist that’s fantastical but full of a harrowing reality George (Moyo Akandé) decides her white skin has made her invisible, even to her workaholic mother – so she steals the black skin of a dead child, and disarms the bullies with vivid tales of her “outsider” roots and culture. when George loses both her own, and her assumed skin and is left, exposed, revealing her innermost self: a sheeny-silvery form that is mystical and beautiful like moonbeams." THE HERALD
"...the venom of the snow queen scarily played by Moyo Akandé"
BBC.CO.UK
"The arrival of the White Witch brought the stage alive. Moyo Akandé appeared regal, icy and menancing as the White Witch and her costume and make up looked dazzling."
ENCORE
"The songs are performed splendidly well - West End musical standard, individual performances by Moyo Akandé are terrific."
SOLIHUL TIMES
"Moyo Akandé is a certainly excellent White Witch"
STOURBRIDGE NEWS
"The White Witch was as intimidating as ever with her sharp wit and glamorous costumes"
REDBRIDGE
"Moyo Akandé does her best Grace Jones impersonation as the White Witch but the campness she adds is in keeping with the style of the production and gained her a well deserved round of boos and hisses"
MUSIC OMH
"a completely terrifying Moyo Akandé."
THE TIMES
"Moyo Akandé is a wonderfully evil ogress"
THE BIRMINGHAM MAIL
"...its seems almost unfair to single out any of the actors for praise, but Moyo Akandé is fiendishly sinister yet delightfully silly as the ogress"
THE METRO
"Sweet little things," enthuses the queen (Moyo Akandé) about her grandchildren –but it is hunger, not love, that drives her. That's because granny is an ogre, and she wants to gobble them up. She's already eaten her human husband"
THE GUARDIAN
"...a power crazy flesh-eating ogress (the beautifully wicked, eternally hungry Moyo Akandé) for a mother. At one point the ogress fancies snacking off her grandchildren and orders a cream sauce to dress the meat."
THE STAGE
"Moyo Akandé is fiendishly sinister yet delightfully silly as the ogress"
THE BIRMINGHAM POST
"...an Ogress played so brilliantly by Moyo Akandé with her insatiable appetite to eat humans!"
PUBLIC REVIEWS
"Moyo Akandé lights up the stage as the meat-munching, Scottish-sounding Ogress"
STOUBRIDGE NEWS
"Another stand-out actor in this bright young cast is Moyo Akandé. She has the looks, height and poise of a supermodel and is as an engaging, charismatic Muzzy."
THE GOOD REVIEW
"Moyo Akandé commands the stage as Muzzy."
THE STAGE
"Moyo Akandé’s twinkling statuesque socialite Muzzy is another delight."
WHAT'S ON STAGE.COM
"The gathering of witches feels truly malevolent, especially Moyo Akandé as the sinister figure who tries to entice the young boy down from a tree using a snake..." THE REVIEWS HUB
