NATIONAL TOUR March 2025-MAY 2025
TAMBO & BONES Original Production Photos by The Other Richard. Featuring Rhashan Stone as TAMBO, Daniel Ward as BONES, Jaron Lammens as X-BOT-1, & Dru Cripps as X-BOT-2
TAMBO & BONES are stuck in a minstrel show.
It’s hard to know what’s real when you’re stuck in a minstrel show.
Their escape plan: get out, get rich, get even.
Join us as one of the most talked-about cultural events of 2023 returns to tour the UK. In this exhilarating, funny and provocative satire, Tambo and Bones journey from comedy double-act, to hip-hop superstars, to activists in a future America, contending with the alarming repercussions of a nation torn apart by race.
Spanning 500 years of history, TAMBO & BONES laughs through our past, blows the roof off our present and imagines an explosive future for our world and for theatre.
Dave Harris is a poet and playwright from West Philly. Selected plays include TAMBO & BONES (LA Drama Critics Award “Best New Play”, TimeOut London “Best Plays of 2023,”), EXCEPTION TO THE RULE (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2022), and EVERYBODY BLACK (Humana Festival 2019). His first feature film, SUMMERTIME premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released in 2021. Selected honors include: the 2023 Horton Foote Prize, the Ollie Award, The Lorraine Hansberry Award and Mark Twain Award from The Kennedy Center, The International Commendation for The Bruntwood Prize, the Venturous Fellowship, and a Cave Canem poetry fellowship amongst others. Dave has written feature and television projects for AMC (INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE), Netflix, Amazon (THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE), and FX amongst others. His first full-length collection of poetry, PATRICIDE, was published by Button Poetry.
CREATIVES
Written by Dave Harris
Director – Matthew Xia
Designers – Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey & ULTZ
Lighting Designer – Ciarán Cunningham
Hip-Hop Beats Produced by Excalibah*
Sound Designer & Additional Composition by Richard Hammarton
Video Designer – Gino Ricardo Green
Magic & Illusions Consultant – Chris Cox
Puppetry Designer – Hugh Purves
*WAR produced by Roly Botha and Excalibah
Dollas to Dreams produced by Excalibah and Roly Botha
DATES
Royal & Derngate, Northampton
Friday 7 – Saturday 15 March 2025
https://www.royalandderngate.co.uk/
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
Wednesday 26 – Saturday 29 March 2025
https://www.everymanplayhouse.com/
HOME Manchester
Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 April 2025
Belgrade Theatre
Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 April 2025
Stratford East
Tuesday 29 April – Saturday 10 May 2025
https://www.stratfordeast.com/
Leeds Playhouse
Wednesday 14 – Saturday 24 May 2025
https://www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk/
Please check venue websites for details of show times, ticket prices and access performances.
Running Time: 2 hours inc interval, approx
Age Guidance: 14+ (This show contains sounds of gunfire, violence, ethnic violence, strong language, strong racial language and discusses themes some may find upsetting relating to race.)
REVIEWS
️️️️ “As entertaining as it is unnerving” The Stage
️️️️ “Unique, challenging and oh-so necessary” The Guardian
️️️️ “Tambo & Bones is a necessary piece of theatre. To display entertainment and humour with such grave and painful topics is a skill very few have. The work of ATC‘s Artistic Director Matthew Xia, was visible throughout, alongside an incredible team of creatives making AN INCREDIBLE PIECE OF THEATRE.” The Rendition
️️️️ “Like nothing you’ve ever seen” The Telegraph
️️️️ “This is not your typical play about race” The Times
️️️️ “It blew my mind … a masterpiece” Afridiziak
️️️️ “Unpredictably bonkers… fasten your seatbelt” Broadway World
️️️️️ “By far the best new American play I have seen for years” LondonTheatre1
️️️️️ “A stellar work of art” All That Dazzles
️️️️️ “Remarkable” North West End
️️️️️ “A new
classic” lastminutetheatretick