Departure Lounge 2023

Thu 6 – Fri 7 Jul, 2023

In Good Company and Derby Theatre’s hugely successful summer festival of cool, contemporary and cutting edge theatre returns!

This year marks In Good Company‘s 10th anniversary! After a decade of listening to, supporting and championing independent artists across the Midlands, we’re celebrating with a jam-packed Departure Lounge Festival – and yes, you’re invited!

This year, we’re putting the magnifying glass on Co-creation: How do artists make work with and for different communities?

We are delighted that this year’s Festival is going international, with the line-up including shows created as part of ConnectUp, an international collective of theatres and arts organisations creating shows for young audiences, with productions from Teatro Elsinor from Milan, Italy and Theatre Pinklec from Croatia. Add to this some brilliant performances from a whole host of the most exciting UK theatre companies and artists…and we have a delicious Departure Lounge cocktail of shows, discussions and events to serve up to artists, audiences, participants and young people!

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Upcoming Events

Sorry, I Disappeared

Thu 6 - Fri 7 Jul, 2023

Sorry, I Disappeared has been created as a Walk This Play® experience for Derby. Walk This Play® is a new series of location-based audio plays by ThickSkin, designed for listeners…

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A Seat At Our Table

Thu 6 – Fri 7 Jul, 2023

A multisensory celebration of food, family and friendship co created with global friends seeking sanctuary in Derby.

Footsteps in the Mud

Thu 6 Jul, 2023

Footsteps in the Mud is written in unrhymed verse, in the first person, and shared with the audience through performance, sound, music and images.

Cross the Line

Thu 6 Jul, 2023

Written and directed by Manuela Capece and Davide Doro with Movement by Jon Beney.

Pleasant Land

Thu 6 Jul, 2023

A story of identity, belonging and growing up along the way.    

Co-Creation: Panel Discussion

Fri 7 Jul, 2023

Come and join us for a FREE fascinating and insightful discussion with industry experts around co-creation within theatre and the arts.

Theatre Variety

Delayed Captain

Fri 7 Jul, 2023

A musical re-interpretation of Brian Eno’s classic ambient album, Music for Airports, re-envisioned for the budget airline experience. Songs written on a budget keyboard and beach guitar relate the mixed…

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Bwoy Dem

Fri 7 Jul, 2023

Bwoy Dem is a punchy, dark and comedic two-hander that deals with themes of race, black masculinity, police brutality and what happens when one man is pushed to breaking point.

Theatre Variety

House of Life

Fri 7 Jul, 2023

One-part sermon, one-part purge, three-parts party. House of Life is a travelling musical cult collective hosted by the RaveRend, with one mission: to get you happy, at any cost.

Liberation Squares

Fri 7 Jul, 2023

Liberation Squares is about British Muslim schoolgirls, whose adolescence is as complex, infuriating and joyous as any other teenagers, but with the added complications of Islamophobia and cultural erasure.

Theatre Variety

Astrology Bingo

Fri 7 Jul, 2023

Treading the fine line between beige and gold. Your favourite galactic gal pals Figs in Wigs have created Astrology Bingo - the world’s first ever* cosmic game show for astrology…

In Good Company 10th Birthday Party

Fri 7 Jul, 2023

In Good Company is 10!

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