Aim

Four Cambridge students have a wish... to go to the festival! Help us bring our new family-friendly musical comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe!

How To Fix A Fairytale

We’ve been given the incredible opportunity to take our new comedy musical, How To Fix A Fairytale, to the Edinburgh Fringe 2026, but we need your help to get us there!

Our first target is to cover our venue hire and registration costs (just shy of £1500!!). Your donation would make such a difference. If donating isn’t something you can do right now, please share this page with all your friends and family - as we know it’s word of mouth that leads to success!

THE SHOW

Once upon a time, two characters’ worlds were turned upside down by an invisible force called “the audience”. What happened next? Well, that is up to you…

How To Fix A Fairytale is a new family-friendly musical comedy with a difference; YOU choose the story! No fairytale trope is safe in this unexpected romp through the forest. An unlikely hero and a terrible villain embark on a great adventure. What their fates will be is for you to decide. 

Expect show-stopping musical theatre numbers, laugh-out-loud lyrics, and a wildly unpredictable adventure where no two shows are the same.

ABOUT US

Writers & Performers - Toby Trusted and Julia Da Costa

Producer - Poppy Lankester

Director - Georgina Brown

Music Director & Accompanist - Sydney Nguyen

How To Fix A Fairytale began as a short cabaret performance at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge, in November 2025, featuring musical numbers from Into The Woods, Tick Tick Boom!, Amelie, and The Little Mermaid. With the chance to develop the show as a Fringe performance, Toby and Julia have adapted it for a family-friendly audience, adding new original compositions by Ariella Gordon (CTRL + ALT + DECEIT!, Edinburgh Fringe 2024) to the renowned musical line-up!

Papaver Productions is a production company just setting out on its journey, but Lead Producer Poppy Lankester has a portfolio of successful productions, including sell-out runs of Sister Act (ADC Theatre, 2024) and The Great Gatsby (ADC Theatre, 2026). Edinburgh Fringe 2024 saw her Fringe production debut with the Highly Recommended Show CTRL + ALT + DECEIT! (TheSpace, 2024).

EDINBURGH FRINGE 2026

We are thrilled to be performing at The Mint Studio, Greenside Venues @ George Street for a short run in the last week of the festival (just 5 performances!), 25th-29th August 2026 at 10.30 am. Tickets on sale soon!

The Edinburgh Fringe is the biggest Arts festival in the world, and we cannot wait to be just one small part of it!

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Taking a show to Edinburgh is an amazing opportunity, but it comes at a massive cost. Currently, we are self-funding our way there, and, as students, we just don’t have the money!

Funds raised will go directly toward venue, registration, and marketing costs, which we are paying upfront. If we were to reach this target, we would allocate funds to technical equipment, accommodation, and travel.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 10th August 2026 at 1:14pm