Cystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Assembly Hall: enjoyable madness!

Kidd Pivot in Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Assembly Hall

By Kathy Elgin, 23 August 2024

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“Young’s voice-over, lip-synched by the dancers, brilliantly matched by Pite’s quirky choreography”

Reviewed at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh on 22 August 2024

Assembly Hall (Scottish premiere) (Crystal Pite)

Kidd Pivot

Crystal Pite, Director

Jay Gower Taylor, Set Designer

Nancy Bryant, Costume Designer

Tom Visser, Lighting Designer

Jonathon Young, Director

Owen Belton, Sound Design

Alessandro Juliani, Sound Design

Meg Roe, Sound Design

Cybèle Young, Video

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Kathy Elgin

After a career in publishing, Kathy Elgin turned her enthusiasm for dance into a real job by joining the late, great John Percival, Dance Critic of The Times, in his re-launch of Dance and Dancers magazine in 1981. She was later delighted to join its rival, The Dancing Times, as Scottish correspondent until the magazine’s sad demise in 2022. She lives in Edinburgh.