Actors Touring Company have announced casting for their acclaimed production of Dave Harris’ Tambo & Bones…
The production will return for a national tour from 7 March – 24 May 2025, following its European premiere in a co-production with Stratford East in 2023. Clifford Samuel will play the role of Tambo and Daniel Ward will reprise his role as Bones.
Clifford Samuel:
“Stepping into the role of Tambo is both a thrilling challenge and a privilege. Collaborating with such an extraordinary team fuels my passion for the craft. I’m eager to witness how audiences engage with the story and the production we’ve brought to life.”
Daniel Ward:
“The transitory nature of theatre means we do our best as artists to create moments that resonate with people and live long in their memories. Sometimes that happens, often it doesn’t. But with T&B people have never stopped asking me about it. More than just ask – people have wanted to debate, dissect and argue. They have passionately told me all the ways in which the show moved them.
“They have told me that they have never forgotten the show and never will. What is special about returning is honouring those experiences and what is exciting is the opportunity to create new memories with new audiences that hopefully last a lifetime.”
Directed by Olivier-award-winning Director, Composer and DJ Matthew Xia Tambo & Bones is an Actors Touring Company, Stratford East and Royal & Derngate, Northampton Co-Production in association with Belgrade Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse.
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.
One of the most talked-about cultural events of 2023, Tambo & Bones is an exhilarating, darkly comic and provocative satire on capitalism and Black performance, that explores the commodification of the Black experience through the mediums of minstrelsy, hip-hop and afro-futurism.
Spanning 500 years, 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. Harris’ blistering play laughs through our past, blows the roof off our present and imagines an explosive future for our world and for theatre.
The production will tour to Royal & Derngate, Northampton (7 – 15 March 2025), Liverpool Playhouse (26 – 29 March 2025), HOME Manchester (1 – 5 April 2025), Belgrade Theatre (9 – 12 April 2025), Stratford East (29 April – 10 May 2025) and Leeds Playhouse (14 – 24 May 2025). Tickets are on sale now.
