Connections 2025: No Regrets
by Gary McNair

Booking and details
£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
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