The phrase "assembled to play" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a group of people or items has been gathered or put together for the purpose of playing a game or engaging in an activity.
Example: "The team was assembled to play in the championship match this weekend."
Alternatives: "gathered to participate" or "brought together for a game".
It occurred to her that there might be reasons that eleven- and twelve-year-olds ought not to be assembled to play for national championships.
He was a friend of Gershwin & was in the orchestra that Paul Whiteman assembled to play the 1st performance of "Rhapsody in Blue".
True, Pete Donnelly is from the Boston-based Figgs, but he also plays in the Candy Butchers, the ensemble Mike Viola assembled to play his pristine, Marshall Crenshaw-style pop.
Beckett was also one of the demanding composer Charles Mingus's favourite recruits for the British band Mingus assembled to play his soundtrack for the 1961 jazz-and-reefers movie All Night Long.
The ensemble was assembled to play the so-called new violin family designed and built by Carleen Hutchins, a luthier who during the 1950s sought to enable a putative musical revolution from her home workshop in Montclair, N.J.
Neil was fairly appalled at the idea, and no one else seemed keen, but somehow when the washing up was done they nonetheless assembled to play in the front room, the girls snuggled around the meek warmth of the storage heater, with their jumpers pulled down over their hands, the boys erupting into spasms of kicking on the broken-backed sofa.
Touring company, also called road company, cast of actors assembled to bring a hit play to a succession of regional centres after the play has closed in a theatrical capital.
Mr. Bush emerged from his first meeting with Mr. Putin, almost a year ago, sounding so lovestruck that his foreign policy chaperone, Condoleezza Rice, quickly assembled reporters to play down the infatuation.
We had been introduced by mutual friends at Stark's coffee shop on Madison Avenue, where a basketball equivalent of the Algonquin Round Table assembled to dissect games played at the Garden.
Still, he sits in the house every night, enjoying the performance and taking the temperature of the audience, which, though it invariably includes two or three friends and colleagues, seems to be unified only by the fact that it has assembled to see the play.
Those assembled to protect reporters who play fast and loose or bolster the egos of editors who live for old media perks, spoils and lunches at Michael's are simply no longer economically viable.
