←Recommendations of TAMBO & BONES

I saw the production at 'Playwright's' Twice. One of the best plays I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. This will change the face of Theatre forever. Dave is one of the best writers and RAPPERS working today!

this was one of the best shows I had the pleasure of catching this past season in off-broadway theater in NYC. the rage, humor, insight, and sharp wit was so visceral and smart, begging the audience to see the root issues in american culture and capitalism. the jump to the future was so fresh and bleak. the cast and production team at playwright's horizons brought this script to new heights, and left me jaw dropped even months after it closed. every american needs to see tambo & bones!

A marvellous and theatrical (and meta-theatrical) dissection of race and class in the US with humor, joy, immense energy, performances to fill us up with all the rage and insanity of the past 400 years and then push us into the future. A great and amazing transformative play.

Thoughtful, mischievous, and anguished dissection of minstrel show tropes and legacies of systemic racism and capitalism. Vivid language and imagery. Sustained attention to detail in a nearly forensic manner.

Saw a fantastic workshop at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, sharp, scathing, complex, challenging and necessary. As we speed across centuries Harris unpacks the complex relationships between performance, exploitation, power and agency. He employs movement, clowning, music and animatronic robots to examine artifice and artistry. He brilliantly dramatizes the dissonance August Wilson famously described, "There are and have always been two distinct and parallel traditions in black art: that is, art that is conceived and designed to entertain white society, and art that feeds the spirit and celebrates the life of black America by designing its strategies for survival and prosperity."

A really compelling dissection of the minstrel show trope that looks at race issues both in and out of the theatre world.