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Lucy Porter – No Regrets!
The irrepressible Lucy Porter bounces back into action with a show all about regrets. Frank Sinatra had too few to mention, but Lucy’s got hundreds, and she’s prepared to go into graphic detail about all of them. Disastrous dates, professional calamities, ruined friendships and parenting fails. Lucy describes all the mistakes she’s made, works out why they happened, and ponders how her life would have turned out if she’d acted differently.
Lucy looks at the things we might all collectively regret – not sticking to the work-life balance we strove for during lockdown, not realising that clapping for the NHS wouldn’t be enough to save it, allowing people we thought were quite fun on TV to become politicians.
How does regret tie in with guilt and shame? As a middle-aged, middle-class, left-leaning ex-Catholic, guilt is one of Lucy’s top five hobbies (along with going to the garden centre, doing jigsaws, making bread and watching subtitled foreign dramas on Netflix. She’s also ashamed of all these hobbies.)
It’s not all negative though. If you regret something, you can use it to change your ways: see the thing you regret as your rock bottom, and let it spur you on to become a better person. Lucy looks at how she can use shameful or annoying things from her past to change her future.
Lucy regrets volunteering at the school fete when her kids were younger, because now she’s committed to being the Hook a Duck Lady twice a year for the rest of her life. Maybe she could learn to say No a bit more?
“Impeccably punch-lined anecdotes… Genuinely delightful” ****
The Telegraph
“A treat from start to finish” *****
The Herald
October 2024...
Thursday 3rd October 2024 - No Regrets - Finchley - Arts Depot
Friday 4th October 2024 - No Regrets - Selby - Town Hall
Saturday 5th October 2024 - No Regrets - Otley - Courthouse
Friday 11th October 2024 - No Regrets - Havant - The Spring
Saturday 12th October 2024 - No Regrets - Havant - The Spring
Friday 18th October 2024 - No Regrets - Swindon - Arts Centre
Saturday 19th October 2024 - No Regrets - Aldershot - West End Centre
November 2024...
Friday 1st November 2024 - No Regrets - Bordon - Phoenix Arts Centre
Saturday 2nd November 2024 - No Regrets - Taunton - Brewhouse
Saturday 9th November 2024 - No Regrets - Colchester - Arts Centre
Friday 15th November 2024 - No Regrets - Bristol - Hen & Chickens
Saturday 16th November 2024 - No Regrets - Didcot - Cornerstone
Friday 22nd November 2024 - No Regrets - Basingstoke - The Haymarket
Saturday 23rd November 2024 - No Regrets - Coventry - Warwick Arts Centre
Friday 29th November 2024 - No Regrets - New Milton - Forest Arts Centre
Saturday 30th November 2024 - No Regrets - Maidstone - The Hazlitt Theatre
December 2024...
Friday 6th December 2024 - No Regrets - Guildford - G Live
Saturday 14th December 2024 - No Regrets - Guildford - G Live
January 2025...
Friday 17th January 2025 - No Regrets - Cambridge - The Junction
Saturday 18th January 2025 - No Regrets - Epsom - Playhouse
Friday 24th January 2025 - No Regrets - Luton - The Hat Factory
Saturday 25th January 2025 - No Regrets - London - Blackheath Halls
Thursday 30th January 2025 - No Regrets - Shoreham On Sea - Ropetackle
Friday 31st January 2025 - No Regrets - Farnham - Maltings
February 2025...
Saturday 1st February 2025 - No Regrets - Beccles - Public Hall
Friday 7th February 2025 - No Regrets - Shrewsbury - Theatre Severn
Saturday 8th February 2025 - No Regrets - Leicester - Firebug
Sunday 9th February 2025 - No Regrets - Barton Upon Humber - The Ropewalk
Friday 14th February 2025 - No Regrets - Folkestone - Quarterhouse
Saturday 15th February 2025 - No Regrets - Isle Of Wight - Quay Arts
Friday 21st February 2025 - No Regrets - Newbury - Arlington Arts Centre
Saturday 22nd February 2025 - No Regrets - Southend On Sea - Palace Theatre
Friday 28th February 2025 - 8pm - No Regrets - Norwich - Playhouse
March 2025...
Saturday 1st March 2025 - No Regrets - Crawley - The Hawth
Friday 7th March 2025 - No Regrets - York - The Crescent
Saturday 8th March 2025 - No Regrets - Wavendon, Milton Keynes - The Stables
Friday 14th March 2025 - No Regrets - Southampton - The Attic
Saturday 15th March 2025 - No Regrets - Chelmsford - Chelmsford Theatre
Saturday 22nd March 2025 - No Regrets - Salisbury - Arts Centre
Sunday 23rd March 2025 - No Regrets - Dorking - Dorking Halls
April 2025...
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 - No Regrets - Banbury - The Mill
Thursday 3rd April 2025 - No Regrets - Leeds - The Wardrobe
Friday 4th April 2025 - No Regrets - Birmingham - The MAC
Saturday 5th April 2025 - No Regrets - Reading - South Street Arts