Aim

Painted revolutionary follows struggle as she searches to bring change to her bookshop. A new revolutionary political satire.

Painted revolutionary follows struggle as she searches to bring change to her bookshop where she is surrounded by bright ideas, but very rarely engages with the real world. The show brings to life political concepts as very real and very flawed people. We meet our cast of characters in Struggle's bookshop, where she is dissatisfied and isolated, largely finding solace in the words of her heroes rather than anyone around her. Order is the only person who stops by to check on her, but their motive is more out of restricting struggle than sincere concern. But struggle will discover that she has an audience, something that only occurs in the great pinnacles of history and her quest to bring change to her and the world ensues. Struggle will be up against her ex-partner (in crime) revolution, the dowdy triplets love, passion and hate, class in his split identity and allegiance, order, peace, justice and more. This comedy-drama aims to educate on political history, whilst also empowering the audience in their own politics and provoke a challenging political awareness. Struggle's role as a woman is also central to this story around gender politics. Painted revolutionary unpicks the pitfalls of politics and struggle's checkered past, but leaves audiences with a solid understanding of the modern political landscape and its hidden depths. The fight for change is admirable, but is it feasible and further is it worth it? Struggle will battle to bring change, but all that has happened will make this complicated.

Painted revolutionary is a new political satire where political concepts are (strange, deeply flawed and unrelenting) people. Struggle lives amongst words in her bookshop with order popping by to make sure she's well and in check. But something's about to happen that hasn't occurred in years- struggle will have an audience and a burden of responsibility. On her journey to bring change she will have to grapple with love, passion and hate (triplets separated at birth), class who can't quite choose a side, resist the temptation to fall back in with revolution and fight order and peace. Struggle works best in conflict, but this might be the conflict that brings her world crashing down or shows who she really is. The stakes are high in this political comedy-drama. Struggle's story holds history, but whether it can build a future is uncertain. Bringing change isn't easy, but is it worth it?

Tip top theatre company is a Wiltshire based theatre collective of 18-27 who specialise ion producing accessible theatre for rural and urban communities alike. The company also prides itself on creating accessible resources around their shows like free spotify playlists, comedic social media skits and engaging in community work and helping young people from rural backgrounds access fringe and provide opportunities for them to develop as creatives in fringe theatre and beyond. The company has two other shows. God the devil and me is a comedy drama about a teenager who is best friends with God and the Devil, but also holds an exploration of mental health and religion and is designed to address stigma around psychosis. Growing pains is a comedy about a failed fringe writer turned teacher, Tessa, and her unruly GCSE class, but also explores the struggles of you mid-twenties, teenage angst, the human and systemic failures of the British education system and growing up. God, the devil and me has been performed in Bath, Liverpool, Barnstaple, Bristol, the etcetera theatre Camden, twice at Edinburgh fringe (The space Uk and Paradise Green respectively), Shepton Mallet and the Drayton arms in London with further dates this year at the lion and the unicorn, London, the Bread and roses theatre, London, more dates in Shepton Mallet, bath and Gloucester and potential dates at camden people's theatre and Norwich. God the devil and me has been perfromed over 50 times to date. Growing pains debuted at fringe last year and will have further dates at the drayton arms, Bath, Shepton Mallet, Gloucester and Norwich with other potential dates in London over the summer.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 12th June 2026 at 8:14pm