Cast and creative team announced for the UK premiere of Tambo & Bones
Theatre Royal Stratford East and Actors Touring Company have announce lead cast and creatives for the UK premiere of Tambo & Bones by award-winning US playwright Dave Harris. Actors Touring Company (ATC) Artistic Director Matthew Xia directs Rhashan Stone (Tambo) and Daniel Ward (Bones) in this play about a comedy double-act, turned hip-hop superstars, who find themselves stuck in a minstrel show.
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.Join them on their journey from comedy double-act, to hip-hop superstars, to activists in an America at the epicentre of the global Black Lives Matter movement.
TAMBO & BONES laughs through our past, blows the roof off our present and imagines an explosive future for our world and for theatre.
CAST
Tambo Rhashan Stone
Bones Daniel Ward
CREATIVES
Written by Dave Harris, Directed by Matthew Xia, Designed by Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey & ULTZ, Lighting Design by Ciarán Cunningham, Hip-Hop Songs Composed by Excalibah, Sound Design & Additional Composition by Richard Hammarton, Movement Direction by Kloé Dean, Video Design by Gino Ricardo Green, Casting Direction by Julia Horan, Assistant Direction by Danielle Kassarate, Fight Direction by Kevin McCurdy, Costume Supervision by Ysanne Tidd, Dramatherapist Wabriya King, Stage Manager Marie-Angelique St. Hill, Deputy Stage Manager Phyllys Egharevba, Assistant Stag Manager Anna Townley, Wardrobe Manager Shereen Maungoo.
TAMBO & BONES: FRI 16 JUN – SAT 15 JUL 2023
BLACK OUT performance on Wednesday 5 July at 7.30pm.
Further Information: Tambo & Bones - Stratford East