Assembly Roxy
Cam, Die With Me
★★★★☆ Impressively spooky
Cam, Die With Me, upstairs at the Assembly Roxy for one performance only, is a horror spoof which takes a silly pun then riffs and stretches it out into a remarkably successful piece of comedy.
The Satyricon
★★★☆☆ Smutty
Martin Foreman’s new adaptation of Petronius’s first century bawdy comic romp, The Satyricon, is at Assembly Roxy to Saturday in an initially awkward staging that eventually finds its pace and pomp.
Roman Holiday
Arbery and EGTG stage The Satyricon
A new adaptation of The Satyricon is being staged this week at the Assembly Roxy in a co-production between Arbery Productions and EGTG. We spoke to adaptor and director Martin Foreman about his project.
Silkworm
★★★★☆ Empathetic portrayal
Silkworm, from Pearlfisher at Assembly Roxy, is the story of Abidemi and Omolade, two asylum seekers living in a Glasgow high-rise tower block while they await decisions on their asylum claims.
She Wolf
★★★★★ Fierce
Isla Cowan’s hard-hitting monologue She Wolf, winner of this year’s Assembly ART Award and the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, fits perfectly in the intimate space of the Assembly Roxy Downstairs.
Kneecaps
★★★☆☆ Bursting with ideas
Fizzing onto the Assembly Roxy’s upstairs space, Kneecaps, the debut production from grassroots company the Moot Point Collective, working in association with Framework Theatre Company, bursts with ideas and opinions.
Hay Fever
★★★☆☆ Lightly hilarious
Every family has their foibles, but the Bliss family are next-level eccentric in Noel Coward’s delicious comedy Hay Fever – brought to the Assembly Roxy by EGTG for four performances only.
A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego
★★★☆☆ History reduced
Multi award-winning feminist theatre company Jordan & Skinner has reimagined its 2019 Edinburgh Fringe hit, A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego, turning it into a zoom style lecture that is available for home streaming through various platforms throughout February.
20 Minutes of Action
★★★★☆ Unflinching case-study
Pollyanna Esse’s powerful piece of verbatim theatre about horrific real-life events in Stanford University in 2015 gets a welcome second outing at the Assembly Roxy this week, after premiering at Bedlam two years ago.