Actors Touring Company (ATC) has announced casting for their acclaimed production of Dave Harris’ Tambo & Bones.
The comedy is touring the UK from 7 March to 24 May 2025, including returning to London’s Stratford East Theatre from 29 April to 10 May 2025 following its European premiere there in 2023, and Northampton, Liverpool, Manchester, Coventry, and Leeds.
Tambo & Bones will star Clifford Samuel (2:22 A Ghost Story, McMafia) as Tambo, and Daniel Ward (Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Rebellion) reprises his role as Bones.
Directed by Olivier-award-winning Director, Composer and DJ Matthew Xia, who is Artistic Director and Joint CEO of ATC, 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 & 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 creative team for Tambo & Bones also includes Set and Costume designers Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey and ULTZ, Lighting Designer Ciarán Cunningham, Hip-Hop Beats by Excalibah, Sound Designer & Additional Composition Richard Hammarton, Movement Director Kloé Dean,| Video Designer Gino Ricardo Green, Associate Director Dubheasa Lanipekun, Costume Supervisor Ysanne Tidd, Fight Director Sam Lyon-Behan, Original fight choreography Kevin McCurdy, Voice and Dialect Coach Joel Trill, Magic & Illusions Consultant Chris Cox, Production Drama Therapist Wabriya King, Lighting Associate Tom Lightbody, Puppetry Designer Hugh Purves and Assistant Designer Mark Simmons.
Actor Clifford Samuel said in a statement: “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.”
Actor Daniel Ward said: “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.”
Matthew Xia, Artistic Director and Joint CEO of ATC said: “I’m so excited that Tambo & Bones – our genre-busting headline-grabbing production – is getting a second outing. Tambo & Bones is a truly audacious satire, both ridiculous and profound, which combines my greatest passions: hip-hop and theatre, to interrogate perceptions of race in the past, present and future. There is truly no experience quite like this show, I can’t wait to see how audiences in Northampton, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Coventry and London respond to this sucker punch of a play.”
More about tickets to Tambo & Bones in London
Tambo & Bones UK Tour 2025
Royal & Derngate, Northampton
7 – 15 March 2025
Liverpool Playhouse
26 – 29 March 2025
HOME Manchester
1 – 5 April 2025
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
9 – 12 April 2025
Stratford East, London
29 April – 10 May 2025
Leeds Playhouse
14 – 24 May 2025
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