A Night on the Tiles

Synopsis

Welcome to a seedy spoken-word underworld where gangsters, high-rollers and conmen compete in high-stakes Scrabble - a game to end them all. Hotly-tipped theatre collective Pen-ultimate present their groundbreaking debut show, A Night on the Tiles. An electric mix of tightly woven wordplay and send-ups of heist, caper and kung fu movies, A Night on the Tiles is a Tarantino-esque tale of revenge, murder and Devonshire cream teas.

Our Review:

5 November 2010

Surprising from the very beginning A Night on the Tiles opens with sharp suited gangsters meeting not to plan a heist but to play Scrabble- to the death. Writer Will Power not only creates a viable reality in which Scrabble is an eastern discipline in the style of Kung Fu he also delivers a coherent storyline full of laughs.

Much of the script is in the form of blank verse well performed by the cast who come from the Hip Hop culture. All are excellent, although Ali Gadema’s gravel-voiced gangster and Niven Ganner’s inscrutable underling are standouts. Lucidity enjoys one of the best, and most acrobatic, death scenes ever whilst Ben Mellor’s desperate Tyler pays tribute to the old style gambler movies and Martin Stannage is an almost robotic genius.
 
Montserrat Gili directs with pace and cheek resisting irony so that the fantastic elements of the play are delivered straight. Drawing influences...

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Ali Gadema - 8 November 2010:

Hi Dave Just to let you know that Will Power did not write this piece, the cast did! Will was the dramaturg. Thanks for the great review....

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