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Cast and Creative Team Set For THE HARDER THEY COME at Stratford East Stratford East has announced the full cast and creative team for the UK premiere of THE HARDER THEY COME, the newly adapted reggae musical based on the cult Jamaican film of the same name.

Cast and Creative Team Set For THE HARDER THEY COME at Stratford East

Cast Announcement and artwork drop for the brand new production of The Harder They Come @stratfordeast.com

Teachers! Educators!

Join us at Playful Spaces where you can gain practical tools to make learning more creative and inclusive for your young people! ⭐️

Hear from experts including Professor Bill Lucas, Mischief Theatre, Matthew Xia, and Tinuke Craig!

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Image of the five Fair Play Advocates, from left to right: Matthew Xia, Nancy Medina, Matthew Dunster, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and Julie Hesmondhalgh

We're very delighted to announce our five Fair Play Advocates, who are: actor, playwright & director Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE; actor & writer Julie Hesmondhalgh; actor & director Matthew Dunster; and theatre directors Nancy Medina & Matthew Xia!

Read more on our website: bit.ly/4lqihns

Top left is Professor Bill Lucas. Top right is Simon Trinder. Bottom left is Jordana Golbourn and bottom right is Matthew Xia

#playfulspaces25 is a summer CPD event with fantastic contributors like Professor Bill Lucas, Simon Trinder, Jordana Golbourn and Matthew Xia. From educators to text consultants, actors to directors, this is not one to miss.

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Tambo & Bones - Leeds Playhouse An exhilarating, funny and provocative satire, which journeys from comedy double-act, to hip-hop superstars, to activists in a future America.

Dear Everyone within geographical reach and affordability of getting a ticket to see Tambo & Bones at Leeds Playhouse before it closes on Saturday, get yourself over there. And bring everyone you know.
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Tambo & Bones - Leeds Playhouse - United Kingdom Writer: Dave Harris

Tambo & Bones – Leeds Playhouse

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Writer: Dave Harris Director: Matthew Xia This show defies convention – it is extraordinary and offers a unique…#uk #news #uknews

Theatre review: Tambo & Bones from Actors Touring Company, Stratford East and Royal & Derngate in association with Belgrade Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman at The Courtyard, Leeds Play... Theatre review of Tambo & Bones (Dave Harris) from Actors Touring Company, Stratford East and Royal & Derngate in association with Belgrade Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman at The Court...

Theatre review: Tambo & Bones from Actors Touring Company, Stratford East and Royal & Derngate in association with Belgrade Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman at The Courtyard, Leeds Playhouse

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#THEATRE #REVIEW Tambo & Bones at Leeds Playhouse "something very worthy and true to our times" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.thereviewshub.com/tambo-bones-... #Leeds

Tambo & Bones - Leeds Playhouse An exhilarating, funny and provocative satire, which journeys from comedy double-act, to hip-hop superstars, to activists in a future America.

Big shout out to the brilliant cast of Tambo & Bones Unmissable, powerful utterly relevant and compelling. On that edge: laughing knowing you should be crying; enjoying whilst you should be devastated and horrified. The show you need to see several times!
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Theatre trip 13 in 2025

Tambo & Bones
Leeds Playhouse

What a superb show. Three acts of bold, brilliant and thought-provoking theatre. Never seen anything like it.

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JMC Fire on Substack Glad I caught the fascinating Tambo and Bones at Stratford East yesterday, having missed it first time around. Dave Harris’s play is the opposite of the earnest, issue-based theatre we’re often served...

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A beautiful jolt of theatre, Tambo and Bones is funny, furious, surreal, and disturbing — a carnivalesque dive into race, history, and performance. No easy answers, no moral applause lines. 👇

This is a lovely interview with the glorious @excalibah.bsky.social - go see Tambo & Bones! #Theatresky

Imagine...

Me --- on Lister's show!!!

Anyway... here it is in case the imagination wasn't working...

Turns out he's not an interdimentional-last-human-space-traveller... But an actor, radio host and DJ from Liverpool -called Craig! 😉

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Me talking all things Tambo & Bones...

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Tambo & Bones - Belgrade Theatre Tambo & Bones laughs through our past, blows the roof off our present and imagines an explosive future for our world and for theatre.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Like nothing you’ve ever seen” - The Telegraph

📅 Wed 9 - Sat 12 Apr
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Audiences have spoken, and Tambo & Bones is "a must see for all"!

Opening tomorrow night on our B1 stage, this five star show follows comedy double-act Tambo and Bones, as they become hip-hop superstars, and activists in America at the epicentre of the global Black Lives Matter movement.

manhunt - but I only know that from the small bit of balcony visible...

Thanks Lekhani 🙌🏽

mind is blown after watching Tambo & Bones last night! so clever and fun in all the right places! congrats to the creative team and @excalibah.bsky.social 👏🏽🙌🏽

A puppet version of playwright Dave Harris sat on the front row of HOME Theatre, waiting for his Tambo & Bones to begin.

Tambo & Bones was all kinds of wonderful and I'll remember it for years to come. Clifford & Daniel were extraordinary. Well done to everyone involved @excalibah.bsky.social 🙏💖

And you got to sit with Dave!

Theatre review: Tambo & Bones from Actors Touring Company, Stratford East and Royal & Derngate, Northampton Co-Production in association with Belgrade Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman a... Theatre review of Tambo & Bones (Dave Harris) from Actors Touring Company, Stratford East and Royal & Derngate, Northampton Co-Production in association with Belgrade Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Live...

Theatre review: Tambo & Bones from Actors Touring Company, Stratford East and Royal & Derngate, Northampton Co-Production in association with Belgrade Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Liverpool Everyman at HOME, Manchester

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The 10 best new London theatre openings in April From Ewan McGregor to ‘The Great Gatsby’, there’s something for everyone on the London stage this month

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Great seeing Tambo & Bones in this list - don't miss it when it returns to London from the 29th April! (for just two weeks!)

What’s On Stage April 2025 Theatre highlights this Month include Tambo & Bones written by Dave Harris and directed by Matthew Xia. You can also catch Thanks For Having Me with Kedar Williams-Stirling and Adeyinka Akinrinade, an...

What’s On Stage April 2025

Theatre highlights this Month include Tambo & Bones written by Dave Harris and directed by Matthew Xia.
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Thanks daneka!

come onnnn THEATRE THAT IS THEATRICAL AND POLITICAL AND ANGRY AND UNANSWERABLE i’ve been WAITING for you

i feel emotional smashed and agape and creatively revitalised