Tambo and 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.
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.
An Actors Touring Company, Stratford East and Royal & Derngate, Northampton Co-Production in association with Belgrade Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman.
★★★★ “As entertaining as it is unnerving” The Stage
★★★★ “Unique, challenging and oh-so necessary” The Guardian
★★★★ “Like nothing you’ve ever seen” The Telegraph
★★★★ “This is not your typical play about race” The Times
★★★★ “Clever, prickly, elaborate, challenging and delivered with great skill” Financial Times
★★★★ “A vivid, bone-crunchingly intimate joyride of a show” Time Out
★★★★ “Unpredictably bonkers… fasten your seatbelt” Broadway World
★★★★ “I would recommend this play in a heartbeat” Afridiziak
★★★★ “A necessary piece of theatre… Tambo & Bones is one for the books.” The Rendition
★★★★★ “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” lastminutetheatretickets.com
