Aim

A surreal dark comedy: a gang transforms their lives around a mysterious philosophy book, chasing justice, love and belonging.

A Clockwork Orange meets Four Lions.

What happens when an ordinary gang starts reading a stolen philosophy book?

Like, reading for real? 

We wanted to take big philosophical questions and put them somewhere unexpected: inside a wild, physical, musical, slightly ridiculous piece of fringe theatre. The show also brings in real testimonies from people who have experienced radical shifts in their worldviews. At the end, the audience becomes the jury: will you punish the gang or set them free?

About Fair Love Collective

Fair Love Collective began with a slightly weird belief: the best theatre happens when wildly different, wildly talented people are trusted to create something together through a horizontal co-creation process. Here we are: creator of the visual world Slavna Martinovic; assistant designers Xristina, Alex, Aryna, and Kendall from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; technical curator-fairy Liisa Zukova; lord of music Alex Hall; resident philosopher and ruler of thoughts Camille Ayoras; magical creative editor and performer Hannah Harris; the Gang of Stars: Ethan Roberts, Jo SungJin, and Joe Spoors; and the author of this madness, Sofya Krasnova.

We are artists from different backgrounds, building something a little bit impossible together - and we would love for you to be part of it.

Where Your Money Goes

This show has been built on an incredible amount of generosity.

Friends, artists, collaborators, and supporters have contributed their time, skills, and resources to help us bring WHEN YOU ARE A TICK to life. But taking an ambitious independent production to the Edinburgh Fringe still comes with some very real costs. The biggest part of our budget goes into creating the world of the show.

We need £4,700 to build our minimal set and source costumes - which we are carefully hunting down second-hand and then transforming by hand through painting, sewing, and a lot of creative problem-solving. 

We also need to secure our performance space, which requires a venue deposit of over £2,000, and transport our cast, crew, and equipment to Edinburgh, which is estimated at around £1200. 

Your support pays for the practical things behind the magic: the materials, the travel, the space, and the ability for independent artists to bring ambitious work to the world.

Thank you ! 

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 2nd August 2026 at 6:56pm