Hi! We're Laura Clare Browne and Rebecca Wilson, and we are incredibly excited to announce our upcoming run of atticwife at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Any donation, large or small, is bringing us one step closer to sharing this show with audiences across the world. Right now, arts funding is rapidly decreasing, especially for marginalized artists. Now more than ever, it’s important to support hard-hitting plays written and produced by women. 

“Tradwife” is internet shorthand for traditional wife: a married woman who aims to embody “traditional” femininity and gender roles. Tradwife influencers take it a step further, selling their followers a fantasy of the idyllic "good old days."

atticwife is a play, silly! And in our play, the titular atticwife is Astrid Fisher, a fictional tradwife influencer who’s taking the lifestyle a step even further. To her millions of followers online, Astrid claims that she has been willingly locked in an attic by her husband and is cheerfully awaiting a lobotomy. But is she really as happy as she seems? One of her viewers, Leah Park, isn’t so sure. When Leah breaks into the attic to rescue her, Astrid is forced to ask herself if the life she’s made as a “traditional” woman is as perfect as she’s always insisted it is--or if she’s in serious danger. 

atticwife started as a frantic voice memo from Laura to Rebecca in September of 2024, but the idea truly crystallized that same fall, at the height of our country’s political division. Seeing women’s rights at risk energized Laura as she finished her first draft. 

After a series of private readings, we debuted in August of 2025 with a very successful staged reading of atticwife at The Tank as a part of their annual Limefest. But we knew we weren’t done. Our team is extremely passionate about the message of this play and we want to make sure it reaches the largest audience possible.

Enter The Edinburgh Fringe, the largest theatre festival in the world. In August of 2026, we’ll be taking our show across the pond to an international audience of nearly 3 million Fringe-goers.

The Edinburgh Fringe is unique because:

If our goal is to bring atticwife to as many people as possible, then there isn’t a better place to start than The Edinburgh Fringe. 

 

For better or (mostly) for worse, social media isn’t going anywhere, and its influence over our daily life only grows. Through the character of Astrid, atticwife dissects what it means to be a social media personality who is constantly performing for an audience. Through the character of Leah, we explore how people develop toxic parasocial relationships with the creators they watch online. 

Underneath the themes of social media, atticwife is a feminist piece at its core. Starring two women who couldn’t be more different, the play is a call to action for women to support each other even when their viewpoints don’t align. It starts a meaningful conversation about internalized misogyny and the dangers of what can happen when a woman entirely isolates herself from the care and protection of other women. 

Leah contrasts Astrid at every turn---she is a butch lesbian who rejects “traditional” femininity and has entirely de-centered men from her life. Actor Jen Clark has been instrumental in bringing this play to fruition, breathing life into Leah through her own lived experiences. Leah’s interactions with Astrid explore the messiness and conflict inherent to intersectional feminism.  

All of these themes speak directly to the current moment we are living in. We believe that many people will find this play as poignant as it is funny--and after all, humor is often a great way to deliver some harsh truths. 

We have been lucky enough to book affordable artist housing through the Edinburgh Fringe Society at Queen Margaret University for our month of shows. 

atticwife will be performed at TheSpace UK’s beautiful central Niddry St location in their 50 seat Studio Theatre. 

As you know, Edinburgh is not in New York City! So our team of four will need to fly out to Scotland. 

We have a small team of four women who all serve multiple roles in this production and must take a month off work to be in Scotland. Paying our artists is essential! 

We must pay a registration fee, for theatre insurance, and to print posters and flyers to advertise around the city. 

It’s a play! We need some props and costumes! Also printed scripts to read Laura’s beautiful words. 

We appreciate you taking the time to read this and learn more about our exciting project. Please consider making a tax deductible donation to help us make atticwife a success. Every dollar counts, and we need a whole lot of them ;)

Be good, Be girly, and Glow <3

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The Team:

playwright/performer/co-producer: Laura Clare Browne

director/co-producer: Rebecca Wilson

performer: Jen Clark

fundraising coordinator: Crystal-Marie Alberson

fundraising video: Glen Covell

photography: Lutriz Studios
poster design: Bobby Martin