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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 Stratford East. 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 (Playwrights Horizons, Center Theatre Group, 2022), Exception to the Rule (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2022), Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth 2023) and Everybody Black (Humana Festival, 2019). His first feature film, Summertime premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Dave is currently writing the feature adaptation of The Fortress of Solitude for Amazon, and an original television project at FX, ABC Studios and Goddard Textiles. Selected honours include the Ollie Award, The Lorraine Hansberry Award and Mark Twain Award from The Kennedy Center, The International Commendation for The Bruntwood Prize and a Cave Canem poetry fellowship, amongst others.
CREATIVES
Written by Dave Harris
Director – Matthew Xia
Designers – Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey & ULTZ
DATES
Tuesday 29 April – Saturday 10 May 2025
Press Night: 29 April 2025 at 7.30pm
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