Aim

Help us raise the final £1500 needed to get LAUNA to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2026!

After months of organising and fundraising, we are nearly there; LAUNA is nearly at the Edinburgh Fringe! Everything is in place: our venue is confirmed, our dates are set and our train tickets are booked, BUT we need one final push to get us over the bottom line. 

We are humbly and modestly asking everyone we know and then everyone they know to donate the teensy amount of £3. We are hoping that by asking for a little, we can amass enough numbers in support to make A LOT. 

£1500 is the goal. That is all we need. That is 500 people. £3 each. That is just one forsaken coffee, all to help us take this incredible show to the Fringe!

Described as "a site of magical, uncanny possibility” by The Last Act Critic and "original, witty, bold and colourful" by Cherwell in November 2025, LAUNA is set within the cluttered familiarity of a small apartment, and follows Edna (Sanaa Pasha), a young mother, navigating the first year after the loss of her daughter. Alone at home, she washes dishes, eats cereal, takes cold-calls and mindlessly consumes yoga videos; repetitive rituals of survival which maintain the fragile illusion of ordinary life.

Combining intimate domestic realism with striking visual experimentation, LAUNA is a visceral exploration of grief and motherhood, blending new writing with a movement ensemble who, dressed in the colours of Launa’s childhood wardrobe, distort Edna’s constructed world through puppetry, handheld lighting, shadow work and immersive soundscapes.

The past and the present are brought into conflict as Edna’s partner, Joe (Ollie Gillam), attempts to prevent Edna from slipping over into an imaginary world. His war is with Launa herself (Coco Scanlon), who flickers throughout the play as a remembered child and imagined adult, brimming with Edna’s unresolved regret. She anxiously observes Edna’s maternal relationship with her younger sister, Beth (Kitty Brown), who brims with life, bursting at the seams with a reality that Launa’s ghost cannot quite capture.  

As tensions rise between the living and the dead, childhood wonder, humour and devastating loss coexist side by side as we slip seamlessly from bedtime stories to shredded flowers and binbags of books.

Following a sold-out run in Oxford, LAUNA marks Tidal Theatre’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut and showcases the work of a cast and creative team of emerging theatre-makers.

Founded in Oxford, the company strives to create visually driven ensemble work that combines original writing with ambitious physical storytelling. When speaking about the creative process, writer and director Rowan Brown notes her inspiration came from Nick Cave’s description of loss as an ‘entirety’, both a terrible powerlessness and a spiritual freedom: ‘We wanted to create a distinctive theatrical language capable of holding both realities at once.’

Reviews of the Oxford run described the production as “awash with emotion and surreal flair” (The Last Act Critic) and “original, witty, bold and colourful” (Cherwell).

Venue: theSpace @ Niddry St 

Dates: 7–22 August 2026 

Times: 7–15 August: 12:00pm–1:00pm 

17–22 August: 10:30am–11:30am 

Running Time: 60 minutes 

Age Guidance: 12+ 

Tickets: £10 / £8 concessions 

Box Office: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/launa

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 5th August 2026 at 2:18pm