REPARATIONS at Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Aim

We are taking Reparations to the Fringe this August and as everyone knows, the fringe is not cheap so we'd love all the support we can get!

About the show 

What if the only way into the life you want is to steal it? 

Award winning writer Maryam Garad explodes onto the stage with REPARATIONS, a poignant one-woman dark comedy, direct from Soho Writers' Lab, exploring rehabilitation, wealth disparity and how jealousy festers in the absence of love. Winner of the Tony Craze Award 2023 and the Pleasance's Charlie Hartill Global Majority Fund 2026, REPARATIONS shows a girl who refuses to ask permission, desperate to be seen.

After serving three years in prison, Aisha sets out on a journey of self-healing, determined to cure her shoplifting addiction and leave old habits behind. But everything changes when she meets V and her admiration quickly turns into obsession. If Aisha truly wants a fresh start, she’ll need a new identity and status. This time, she’s not just stealing things, she’s stealing a life.

About us.

We'd love to bring this show to life in the best way possible at the Fringe and to make sure the version we put on stage is it's most developed production yet! We've done the funding applications, we've done the grant applications and now we're looking to the wonderful people that loves the arts to help! 

Directed by Ariana Xeno and Cassia Thakkar, produced by Hannah Ali, written and performed by the powerhouse that is Maryam Garad; this team of women are ready to take the Fringe by storm and need your help to do so! 

Help us bring this show to life on stage at the Pleasance this August!

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 24th July 2026 at 6:00pm