Assembly Roxy Listings

Upcoming shows at the Assembly Roxy

Assembly Roxy
Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU. Phone booking: 0131 623 3030
Website: https://assemblyroxy.com

Assembly Roxy

The decommissioned church is the year-round Edinburgh home of Assembly Festival. It has three main spaces. Roxy Upstairs is a theatre space with raked seating for up to 169 audience members and Roxy Downstairs is a more intimate studio space seating up to 60 people. Roxy Central retains the building’s original features with added stage and a bar areas. It is a flexible space, seating up to 250.

Click on the name of the show or the Book Here link to go to its ticketing site.

2026

October 2026

Kitchen Dancer (Scissor Kick)
Wed 28 – Sat 31 October 2026
Daily: 7pm. (Central).
Fringe First winner Skye Loneragan finds herself representing Scotland in the brand new ‘Coping Strategies’ category of the Olympic Games as a ‘Registered Kitchen Dancer’. Moves must be made as she attempts to show a film crew where she trains – a cramped flat sandwiched between other situations. Book here.

November 2026

The Seamstress (Mad Bad Productions)
By Bryony Barclay
Mon 2 – Tue 3 Nov 2026
Daily: 7pm. (Central).
Once, women came from the sea to dance on land. They slipped from their seal-skins and danced beneath the moonlight. One night, a woman’s skin was taken. And she could not return. Rooted in an ancient story, The Seamstress follows a woman as she confronts the wilderness beyond her – and the wilderness within. Book here.

Zamboni (PPP)
By Lex Joyce, drected by Anna Whealing.
Wed 11 – Sun 15 Nov 2026
Daily: 1pm. (Upstairs).
Skating instructors Donal, Noa and Gus would rather be at their local ice rink than anywhere else in the world. Joking, gossiping and watching over the ice below. But when they witness a horrific accident on shift, their safe haven is shattered, and their greatest passion becomes the very thing they’re afraid of. There are some things even a Zamboni can’t smooth over. Book here.

Anti-Gravity (Kevin Quantum)
Sat 14 Nov 2026
One performance: 7.30pm. (Central).
Enter a space where the rules of gravity are bent and broken… Impossible illusions and levitations presented by the magician-scientist adventurer tutored by Penn & Teller. Following award-winning, sell-out performances around the world, Kevin returns is back! Book here.

Making Way (PPP)
By John Maley, directed by Emma Roxburgh.
Wed 25 – Sun 29 Nov 2026
Daily: 1pm. (Upstairs).
Scientists have discovered the elixir of youth. Whilst the older generation revel in their rejuvenated bodies, the young are leeched of their priceless blood and forced to fight for their future. A weary widower is injected with this new lease of life but discovers that immortality is not all that it’s cracked up to be, and there are severe costs for his generation refusing to give way. Book here.

December 2026

Dead Husbands Club (PPP)
By Rob Drummond, directed by Cora Bissett.
Wed 2 – Sun 6 Dec 2026
Daily: 1pm. (Upstairs).
Emily, Maya and Shelley all became widows after the same man killed each of their husbands. Now, they are the self–declared ‘Dead Husbands Club’. At their regular karaoke catch-up, the three women belt out hit songs and discuss why their husbands were targeted as the real truth comes out. In the words of Kelly Clarkson, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? New dark comic drama by Rob Drummond that explores blame, responsibility, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to live with loss. Book here.