Nelson Fringe Fest:The Departure Lounge
114 Hardy St, Nelson, Nelson / Tasman
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The Departure Lounge is an autobiographical one-woman show about sex, suitcases, sailors and finding love in all the wrong places.
While waiting in The Departure Lounge for a flight to an uncertain future, a 70 year-old woman unpacks and repacks the baggage she’s accumulated over a lifetime, beginning with her dysfunctional family in 1950s small town NZ before heading, via a disastrous OE, to 1980s Auckland where she leads a passionate double life in a risky and clandestine underworld.
Can we transcend our upbringing? Is it possible to outrun the past? Can light – even love – be found in dark places? These are the big questions which lie at the heart of the show, and which are impossible to answer until we enter The Departure Lounge.
The audience at the 2022 premiere performance, described the show as “courageous”, “powerful” and “deeply affecting” and an “invitation to look at our own lives without expectation or judgement”. They also said the show was “full of humour and pathos” and presented with “an engaging physicality”.
Take your seat in the Departure Lounge now, and prepare for the flight of a lifetime!
The Departure Lounge is written and performed by Ro Cambridge, with director and dramaturge Donna Chapman.
Many thanks to Creative Communities and Arts Council Nelson for their support.
Genre: Theatre
Warnings: Adult Themes, Language
Age Rating: R16
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