Mofetoluwa Akande

Review: FAMILY TREE, Brixton House
by Kit Bromovsky - Apr 20, 2023

Family Tree directed by Matthew Xia is about Henrietta Lacks; a woman who made one of the greatest medical contributions after her cells were taken from a cervical-cancer biopsy. “HeLa” cells became the first immortal human cell line to reproduce infinitely in a lab. The piece teaches us about how Lax’s cells today are still helping with polio, cancer, herpes, Covid 19, flu and continue to be widely used to advance biomedical research and medicine.

FAMILY TREE Cast Announced
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 13, 2023

Aminita Francis (Red Riding Hood, Liverpool EVERYMAN), Keziah Joseph (Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, NATIONAL THEATRE), Mofetoluwa Akande (A Christmas Carol, BRISTOL OLD VIC), Aimée Powell (Nothello, BELGRADE THEATRE) and Alistair Hall (Safe, NORWICH THEATRE ROYAL) are cast in the World Premiere and National Tour of Mojisola Adebayo’s award-winning play Family Tree

Cast Announced For the UK Tour of FAMILY TREE
by Stephi Wild - Feb 10, 2023

Casting has been announced for the World Premiere and National Tour of Mojisola Adebayo’s award-winning play Family Tree, presented by Actors Touring Company (ATC) and Belgrade Theatre Coventry in association with Brixton House Theatre. 

BWW Review: CLYBOURNE PARK, The Weston Studio, Bristol Old Vic
by Tim Wright - Nov 13, 2018

'Some would say change is inevitable' and nowhere more so than Clybourne Park, a street in Chicago in the 1950s where the first black family are about to move in.

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Students Reimagine Pulitzer-Winning Drama CLYBOURNE PARK
by Stephi Wild - Oct 26, 2018

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School final year students are mounting the astonishingly pertinent Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. They are performing for the first time on the stage of Bristol Old Vic's new Weston Studio Theatre, designated home to innovation and the next generation of theatre makers.