ASSEMBLY

By Nina Segal

A Donmar Local Production

20 March – 25 April 2021

ASSEMBLY was broadcast live on YouTube on 20 March 2021 and a recording of the original broadcast was available to watch until 25 April 2021. Discover how we created this innovative digital production in our MEET THE CREATORS video series or read our blog ‘The making of ASSEMBLY’.

Imagine the future. However you choose to imagine it. Now imagine it in your hands.

What does community mean in a time of division and separation?

Mixing live performance, animation and sound, ASSEMBLY looks at the impact of humans on nature and what we might build together for a better future. It’s about trying, failing, and trying again. In times of emergency, it is about hope.

Created by writer Nina Segal (In the Nighttime (Before the Sun Rises), Gate), director Joseph Hancock ((This Isn’t) A True Story, Almeida Young Company) and the Donmar Local Company, ASSEMBLY is a live digital performance created in collaboration with video designer and director of photography Andrzej Goulding (Teenage Dick, Donmar), set and costume designer Frankie Bradshaw (Sweat, Donmar and West End), composer and sound designer Max Pappenheim (The Night of the Iguana, West End) and lighting designer Sam House (#HashtagLightie, Arcola). This is the first production from the Donmar Local Company – members of the community who live and work in the Donmar’s home boroughs of Camden and Westminster.

ASSEMBLY was rehearsed online and presented in line with all Government guidelines.

Assembly is dedicated to the memory of Michael Turney, a founding member of our Local Company 

Production Photos