About This Episode:

What happens when an engineer decides to write a play? If you're Rymn Wadhwa, you end up with one of the most inventive premises at this year's Toronto Fringe Festival. Assembly Sϋggested follows two women building an IKEA chair (and maybe, just maybe, a relationship ) guided by an instruction manual that gets increasingly, wonderfully absurd. It's a debut play with a deceptively simple setup that promises real emotional depth. This is Rymn's first play, first Fringe, and first podcast interview, and it's a conversation full of warmth, honesty, and real excitement about what theatre can do. If you're heading to the Toronto Fringe this year, Assembly Sϋggested is one to put on your list.

This episode explores:

The ingenious premise of Assembly Sϋggested and how a friendship became the blueprint for a play about building and breaking things
How Rymn's engineering mindset and chess background shape the way she structures drama — including charting emotional highs and lows in spreadsheets
How such a personal play evolved into something with no villains, only two people with different needs
Creating Original music for the play, and suiting it to the performer
And much more!

Guest: ♟️ Rymn Wadhwa

Rymn is a Toronto-based playwright, artist, and engineer interested in structure, performance, and the narratives we build around everyday events. Her debut play, Assembly Sϋggested, premieres at the 2026 Toronto Fringe Festival.

Connect with Rymn

🌐 Website: assemblysuggested.com

📸 Instagram: @assemblysuggested

Get tickets (starting June 3): https://fringetoronto.com/fringe/show/assembly-suggested

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