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Connections 2025: No Regrets

by Gary McNair

Three young people stand in a theatre against a dark wall. The person on the left raises a fist, the person in the centre has a hand on their chest and is smiling, and the person on the right clasps their hand. They are all dressed in black.

Booking and details

8.30pm on Friday 27 June
The event location is

Dorfman Theatre

National Theatre
South Bank
London SE1 9PX

£5 for one performance
£8 when you book for No Regrets and Normalised by Amanda Verlaque

Public booking opens at midday on 20 May

Performed by Glasgow Acting Academy

Over the course of five years, playwright Gary McNair spoke to people at all stages and in all walks of life on the subject of regret. This play marks the results of those conversations.

A collection of scenes from the silly to the profound, that charts our relationship with the things we should have done but didn’t and the things we shouldn’t have done, but did.

Gary McNair is a writer performer based in Glasgow.

He aims to make work that will challenge and entertain audiences in equal measure. His work has been translated into several languages and been performed around the world from America to Australia, from Germany to Japan, and from Portugal to Possilpark. He is a mainstay of the Edinburgh Fringe where his last seven shows have sold out and he has won the coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award three times.

He is an Associate Artist at both the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and the Tron in Glasgow. He loves telling stories and is delighted that people want to hear them.

Recent works include; Dear Billy (National Theatre of Scotland), Nae Expectations (The Tron) Jekyll and Hyde (Reading Rep/The Lyceum) Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil (The Lyceum), The Alchemist (The Tron), Square Go [co-authored by Kieran Hurley] (Francesca Moody Productions/Paines Plough), McGonagall’s Chronicles (Oran Mor), Locker Room Talk/Letters to Morrissey/Donald Robertson Is Not a Standup Comedian (The Traverse) A Gambler’s Guide To Dying (Show and Tell/The Traverse).

Suitability

Content guidance:

  • Strong language.
  • Description of violence.
  • Mention of alcohol and addiction.
  • One scene of a mugging and stabbing.
  • References to death.

Access

This performance will be Captioned

 

Connections 2025

Supporters

The Mohn Westlake Foundation supports nationwide Learning programmes for young people.

BNP Paribas is proud to be Headline Partner of Connections 2025 through their BNP Paribas AccessArt25 programme.

Connections is also supported by The Mohn Westlake Foundation, Buffini Chao Foundation, The EBM Charitable Trust, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, Katie Bradford Arts Trust, Susan Miller & Byron Grote, Mulberry Trust, Tuixen Foundation, The Peter Cundill Foundation, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Woodward Charitable Trust and The John Thaw Foundation.

Nationwide learning is also supported by Buffini Chao Foundation, Clore Duffield Foundation, Tim & Sarah Bunting, MFPA Trust Fund for the Training of Disabled Children in the Arts, Behrens Foundation, Cleopatra Trust, and The Andor Charitable Trust.

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