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Help get FLOAT to London!
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Aim
Help us bring Indra Wilson's powerful play FLOAT to Theatre503 in London, coinciding with Baby Loss Awareness Week. 🧑🚀🚀
Who we are
F-Bomb Theatre is an award-winning feminist company based in Scotland, dedicated to celebrating and supporting women and people of marginalised genders. Despite not having regular funding, the company has earned critical acclaim over the years – including The Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Sit-Up Award for Social Impact – for bold, unapologetic productions that spark conversation and challenge intersectional gender inequality.
Indra Wilson is a working-class performance maker, researcher, producer and drama facilitator. They believe art and performance are powerful tools for provoking conversation and social change, and have worked extensively in community settings, recovery group, prisons and hospice. They have been recognised with a Herald Education Award nomination for outstanding contribution to the wider community through artistic practice. FLOAT is their professional playwriting debut.
What’s FLOAT about?
FLOAT is an award-winning autobiographical solo show by Indra Wilson, produced by F-Bomb Theatre and co-directed by Cora Bissett and Niloo-Far Khan. A tender exploration of pregnancy as a young, queer solo parent framed through the metaphor of going to space – charting the exhilaration of lift-off, the weightless hope of orbit, and the disorientation of crashing back to earth too soon.
With little support for “failed” astronauts, Indra is left adrift in silence and darkness. This is the story of navigating that emptiness, finding twinkling pockets of light, and discovering the hope, resilience and love that emerge through grief.
For those with lived experience, FLOAT offers a validating, compassionate space for loss. For those without, it is a call to action: to listen and to fight for better support around pregnancy loss.
What people have said about FLOAT
FLOAT had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 to critical acclaim, picking up four major awards nominations (and one win!) along the way.
★★★★★ "Astronomically heartbreaking"- A Youngish Perspective
★★★★★ "This is a piece of theatre that will stay with me for a long time" -North West End UK
★★★★★ "A triumph"- All Edinburgh Theatre.com
"Nothing has moved me so much, nothing has moved me so emotionally. Tears, smiles, warmth... and I still get goosebumps when I remember this show. It changed me a little bit. My highlight of a great festival!" - Audience feedback
"I didn’t know theatre could do this to people. I left the theatre with only one thought in my head: We should talk about this. We should talk about this more. We should talk about this every day." - Audience feedback
How Your Support Helps
We are thrilled that FLOAT has been programmed in the Theatre503 Autumn 2025 Season (8–11 October) - marking Indra’s London stage debut and F-Bomb Theatre’s first work outside Scotland. Theatre503 is a home for bold new voices, making it the perfect launchpad for this transfer. What makes this opportunity even more special is that the run coincides with Baby Loss Awareness Week, amplifying the reach of Indra's story.
Here’s where your support goes:
- Fair pay: women and gender-marginalised theatremakers face systemic pay inequality: among theatre freelancers in the UK, there is a 37% wage gap. Your support ensures everyone involved in this London transfer is paid fairly. It will cost us £2500 to pay our lead artist, producer, director and stage manager for the week-long run, plus other technical fees and designer royalties.
- Travel and accommodation: Getting to London isn’t cheap. (Why are trains so expensive?) We also want to make sure our team has safe, decent places to stay. It will cost £1500 for the team to make it to London and back.
- Focus on the art: With funding, our team can focus entirely on delivering the best possible production and meaningful community outreach - especially partnerships with charities and community groups around Baby Loss Awareness Week.
- Stretch goals: Anything we raise beyond our target will go toward access performances - bringing down our brilliant audio describer and, if possible, offering a BSL-interpreted performance (something we couldn’t achieve at the Fringe due to venue constraints, but are determined to realise in London).
By supporting FLOAT, you’re helping us bring a powerful, heartfelt story to new audiences. You’ll be championing opportunities for women and trans people in theatre and helping to breaking silence around pregnancy loss.
Every donation - big or small - makes a real difference. Thank you for believing in this project and helping us take FLOAT to London.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made