Assembly Festival
The Assembly takes over George Square including the gardens and creates a “Fringe village”, which is a great place to chill out, and also runs the grand Assembly Hall on the Mound and Assembly Roxy.
Its South African Season promises to be exciting, presenting the very best of contemporary South African theatre featuring internationally acclaimed artists and the brightest emerging talent in five plays
For 2014, it presents Silent Voice from the South African State Theatre, the Best New SA Script winning Hayani, Durban Playhouse's production of Race by David Mamet, the hilarious Sunday Morning and The Zulu from Tony nominee Mbongeni Ngema.
At Assembly Hall, the superb Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents the delightfully macabre, joyful and deliciously wicked musical comedy The Addams Family that brings to life Charles Addams’s oddly loveable and singularly eccentric comic cartoon creations. It sounds like an irresistible celebration of family values, but Addams-style.
Whilst there, you may want to catch New Zealand’s first-ever Pacific musical, The Factory. This is a funk-fuelled exploration of the Samoan migrant experience. Opening with a powerful call to ancestral roots delivered by the cast, The Factory is a moving story filled with music, song and dance.