SIX Lips Theatre are running a crowd-funding campaign in aid of taking their one big project for 2014, House Of Tragic She, to the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe festivals.

The independent, all-female York visual arts company, run by Anna Rose James, Hannah Wallace and Roxanna Klimaszewska, will be hosting fundraising events to supplement the online campaign.

The company’s “Indiegogo campaign” will go live on February 1, including an appeal video made by Tony Hipwell, from York independent film company MilesTone Productions.

The first of two Fun-Raisers in City Screen’s Basement Bar, featuring live performance by Six Lips Theatre and guests, will take place on February 24; the second will follow on April 28.

Crowd-funding is a popular means of musicians raising funds through public support to finance an album. Six Lips aim to mount a similar campaign to send them to Brighton in May and Edinburgh in August.

House Of Tragic She promises to be a “poetic, poignant and colourful physical theatre performance that delves into the effects of loneliness on our functionality as human beings”. “We all go a little mad sometimes,” says Anna Rose James. “But what do you know about your own emotional wellbeing? Did you decide that for yourself?

“Our show will draw on literature’s constant reinterpretations of loneliness and madness to explore, through wonder and inquiry, the concept of ownership through narrative. Is your story in safe hands?”

The show will mix verbatim material from the voices of mental health service users, providers and professionals with an expressionist revamp of Brechtian epic theatre.

“Cue a juxtaposition of the surreal extension of life allowed by the human mind with the serious tragedies of its realities,” says Anna.

More details on the show, its background and the crowd-funding campaign can be found at sixlips.co.uk