Tag: Assembly Festival
Crunching the numbers after Assembly Festival
The Fringe already seems a long time ago - but in reality it only ended last week and now all the major venues have had time to crunch the numbers.
The Assembly Festival...
Assembly Festival surviving on short term loan – outstanding debt puts 2024 shows at...
The boss of the Edinburgh Fringe’s longest running and largest venue operator has suggested that Assembly Festival may not be around for the 2024 Festival.
William Burdett-Coutts, Assembly Festival’s founder and artistic director, revealed the...
Assembly Festival – Class of ’22
Members of the 2022 Assembly Festival team gathered outside the festival’s eponymous home, Assembly Rooms on George Street, to celebrate 40 years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The team members recreated the very first team...
Assembly Festival – S.O.E.
S.O.E. is a new play about two remarkable women in the WW2 Special Operations Executive.
The WW2 Special Operations Executive is tasked with espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. As a wireless operator, life expectancy is six...
Assembly Festival – 360 ALLSTARS
Basketball freestyling, Cyr Wheel, breakdancing and BMX flatlanding.
The phenomenal 360 ALLSTARS deliver a supercharged urban circus boasting a stellar cast of World Champion and World Record holding artists and athletes, 360 ALLSTARS is a...
Assembly Festival – KIN – Barely Methodical Troupe
Barely Methodical Troupe brings you their five-star hit about group dynamics and camaraderie. Their physical prowess is deftly deployed, as tumbling, flying and catching become challenges and opportunities for individual bids for recognition.
KIN was...
Assembly Festival – The Choir of Man
From creative minds Nic Doodson and Andrew Kay, The Choir of Man is 60 minutes of unadulterated entertainment that combines high energy dance, foot stomping choreography and the incredible talent of nine ordinary guys...
Assembly Festival opens its doors from today in George Square Gardens
Celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year, Assembly Festival runs from today until the end of August. T
he gardens will be open daily offering a mix of street food and lite-bites from some of Scotland’s...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Assembly Festival gears up for final week
Assembly Festival still has plenty to offer as the Edinburgh Fringe enters its final week for 2021; with world-class circus, big-names in comedy, live music, five-star theatre and more being added to the programme...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Bromance
The Internationally acclaimed show, Bromance, explores concepts of friendship, subverting conventional circus tricks and styles with its playful techniques.
Highly entertaining, Bromance is a show about trust, intimacy and male friendships explored through eye-watering feats...
Assembly Festival 2021 – Watson: The Final Problem
Watson is alone. His beloved wife Mary and the great Sherlock Holmes are gone. London seethes with false reports and rumour. It is time to set the record straight.
So Watson tells his tale of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – More shows announced for Assembly Festival
This year, Assembly Festival will be operating two sites and three venues at the Fringe including a new Outdoor Stage in George Square Gardens. Assembly Festival has been awarded £162,962 from the Scottish Government...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Assembly Festival begins today
The Palais du Varieté Spiegeltent is back in George Square Garden ready for the Assembly Festival to fill it up with a variety of acts.
Assembly Festival was awarded £162,962 from The Scottish Government...
At the Assembly Hall – BINGO!
Assembly Festival is working with multi-award winning Scottish theatre companies Grid Iron and Stellar Quines on the production of their new show BINGO! which begins a run at Assembly Hall on the Mound, Edinburgh...
Assembly shows begin today
The Assembly’s 37th Festival gets going this year with previews starting from today.
This year’s programme of over 200 shows offers world-class theatre, indigenous dance, quick fire comedy, breath-taking circus skills, cabaret, accapella choirs and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Establishment: Eton Mess
After their critically acclaimed debut in 2016, comedians Dan Lees and Neil Frost return to Edinburgh with The Establishment: Eton Mess at the Assembly George Square Theatre.
The one hour show combines the best of clowning, satirical wit and...
Assembly Food Festival 2017 begins today
Assembly's Edinburgh Food Festival opens today promising many and varied tastes including edible insects and savoury ice cream. Philippa Marsden, a graduate of the Queen Margaret University MSc in Gastronomy will be there with...
70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe promises a riotous Assembly
This year Assembly celebrates 70 years of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with its biggest programme yet – over 200 shows from 12 countries in 26 temporary performance spaces across five different sites - including a...
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