Tambo & Bones

Tour synopsis, cast & creatives

Tambo & Bones are trapped in a minstrel show. It's mad hard to feel like a real person when you're trapped in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get bank, get even. So, accept our invitation, if you will, to step from the heart of the crumbling Empire into an America at the epicentre of the global Black Lives Matter movement. Part distorted clown-show, part spectacular hip-hop concert, part absurdist Afro-futuristic lecture (with robots!), Tambo & Bones interrogates the commodification and commercialisation of Black pain in a satirical roller coaster of a show.

Creatives/Company

Author: Dave Harris
Producer(s): Theatre Royal Stratford East, Actors Touring Company, Excalibah
Director: Matthew Xia
Design(s): Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey, Ultz, Hugh Purves (puppets)
Costume(s): Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey, Ultz
Lighting: Ciaran Cunningham
Sound: Richard Hammarton
Music: Richard Hammarton (additional composition)
Other: Chris Cox (magic and illusions consultancy)