Tambo & Bones West End

Tambo & Bones 2023

Opened: June 16, 2023
Closing: July 15, 2023

Tambo & Bones - 2023 - West End History , Info & More

Theatre Royal Stratford East
Gerry Raffles Square London

Tambo & Bones are trapped in a minstrel show. It's mad hard to feel like a real person when you're trapped in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get bank, get even.

So, accept our invitation, if you will, to step from the heart of the crumbling Empire into an America at the epicentre of the global Black Lives Matter movement.

Part distorted clown-show, part spectacular hip-hop concert, part absurdist Afro-futuristic lecture (with robots!), TAMBO & BONES interrogates the commodification and commercialisation of Black pain in a satirical roller coaster of a show.

Praise for the 2022 Playwrights Horizons production:

“Brilliant!” New York Magazine

“A shape-shifting production that makes you second-guess everything you do in a theatre.” Theatermania

Presented by Theatre Royal Stratford East and Actors Touring Company.

__Access Performances__

Socially Distanced & Masked: Sat 24 Jun, 2.30pm

Relaxed Environment (what's this?): Sat 01 Jul 2.30pm

BSL Interpreted: Thu 06 Jul, 7.30pm

Captioned: Fri 07 Jul, 7.30pm

Audio Described: Sat 08 Jul, 2.30pm

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Tambo & Bones FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of Tambo & Bones have there been?
Tambo & Bones has had 2 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 2022 and West End which opened in 2023.

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