London Events Night on the TilesA Night on The Tiles
Pen-ultimate and Contact in association with the Albany present
A Night On The Tiles
Welcome to a seedy spoken-word underworld where gangsters, high-rollers and con-men compete in the ultimate 
high stakes Scrabble game.
Manchester-based theatre collective Pen-ultimate return with a bigger and bolder production of their critically acclaimed debut: A Night On The Tiles. An electric, heady mix of tightly woven wordplay referencing heist, caper and kung fu movies, A Night On The Tiles is a Tarantino-esque tale of revenge, murder and Devonshire cream teas.
Directed by Montserrat Gili (Dende Collective) and with dramaturgy from US hip-hop theatre pioneer Will Power, A Night On The Tiles is dark comedy with an infectious urban twist.
Pen-ultimate are a diverse collective of nationally and internationally recognised poets, actors, MCs and playwrights – Ben Mellor, Ali Gadema (AKA Frisko Dan), Niven Ganner, Samira Arhin-Acquaah (AKA Lucidity) and Martin Stannage (AKA Visceral).
Ben Mellor is the current Slam Champion for BBC Radio 4 and Pen-ultimate were recently featured extensively on Radio 4’s long-running poetry series Bespoken Word. The verbal dexterity of Mellor and Lucidity inspired producer Graham Frost to take an unprecedented chance, inviting the rest of the crew to perform on air without having seen Pen-ultimate live. A section from A Night On The Tiles was featured on the most recent series to a great response.
Introduction to the cast of 'A Night on the Tiles'.
Says Frost:
“Pen-ultimate are an unusually talented performance collective, each of them distinctive, each of them massively powerful, and together they’re richly entertaining”
Pen-ultimate made their debut at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival, and have since performed in theatres and festivals including Contact, The Albany, Bristol Old Vic and The Big Chill. In spring 2009 Contact Theatre made Pen-ultimate one of their key Partner companies and supported the collective to work with American playwright and performer Will Power. A Night On The Tiles is their first full-scale production and major national tour.
www.penultimate.net
“Deliciously lyrical”
Afridiziak
“Packed with wordy wit…laced with sharp physical comedy”
METRO **** Four Stars
“Fresh…dynamic…not to be missed!”
Whatsonstage.com **** Four Stars
Tour Dates
The Broadway, Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm (London)
www.thebroadwaybarking.com
Tara Arts, Tues 8-12th Mar, 7.30pm (London)
www.tara-arts.com
ARC, Tues 15 Mar, 7.30pm
www.arconline.co.uk
The Core at Corby Cube, 24 Mar, 7pm and 25th Mar 2pm and 7pm
www.thecorecorby.com
The Egg, 30 Mar 1.30pm and 7.30pm, and 31 Mar 1.30pm
www.theatreroyal.org.uk/the-egg
SpArC, through rural touring network, Arts Alive, 2 Apr
www.artsalive.co.uk
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