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 Tambo and Bones 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.
There will be a free post-show discussion on Thu 10 Apr, hosted by Professor Robert Beckford – theologian, broadcaster and documentary film maker.
‘A racially charged metatheatrical satire and “rags-to-riches hip-hop odyssey” by slam poet turned playwright Dave Harris.’ (Time Out New York, 30 Best Off Broadway shows to see in Spring 2022)
★★★★★ “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
★★★★ “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
