Lucy Porter is set to embark on a national tour from this September, with her brand-new show – all about regrets – bringing her to The Attic in Totton next spring.
Frank Sinatra had too few regrets 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 – No Regrets sees Lucy reveal 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 will also look at the thoughts and actions 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 elements 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. So maybe this is a life lesson – and maybe she could learn to say “no” a bit more? And maybe 2024 could be the year where she finally, genuinely has No Regrets.
Lucy Porter is an established comedian, actor, writer, voiceover artist and podcaster.
She is a regular face on our television screens, both with her acting work and her many appearances on some of the UK’s most beloved panel shows. She’s appeared on QI with both Sandi and Stephen hosting, she’s been on Mock The Week, Have I Got News for You, and Would I Lie to You.
Lucy’s acting work includes a stint in BBC1’s Eastenders as well as the phenomenally successful stage version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest in Edinburgh and London.
Lucy’s big passion is quizzing – she hosts the successful Podcast ‘Fingers on Buzzers’ alongside Jenny Ryan AKA The Chase’s Vixen, they have also recently released their debut quiz book. Lucy has achieved some personal quizzing goals by bringing home a Pointless trophy and becoming the Celebrity Mastermind ‘Champion of Champions’.
Lucy’s dulcet tones are regularly heard on BBC Radio 4. She’s starred in her own series “In the Family Way” and is a regular voice on The News Quiz, The Now Show, The Unbelievable Truth and Just a Minute. Lucy is a keen student of comedy history and is on the board of Bristol’s annual Slapstick Festival.
Tour Dates: For tickets visit boundandgaggedcomedy.com
21-Sep-24 MAIDENHEAD NORDEN FARM
26-Sep-24 TUNBRIDGE WELLSTRINITY THEATRE
27-Sep-24 HEMEL OLD TOWN HALL
28-Sep-24 HEMEL OLD TOWN HALL
03-Oct-24 FINCHLEY ARTS DEPOT
04-Oct-24 SELBY TOWN HALL
05-Oct-24 OTLEY COURTHOUSE
11-Oct-24 HAVANT THE SPRING
12-Oct-24 HAVANT THE SPRING
18-Oct-24 SWINDON ARTS CENTRE
19-Oct-24 ALDERSHOT WEST END CENTRE
01-Nov-24 BORDON PHOENIX ARTS CENTRE
02-Nov-24 TAUNTON BREWHOUSE
09-Nov-24 COLCHESTER ARTS CENTRE
15-Nov-24 BRISTOL HEN AND CHICKENS
16-Nov-24 DIDCOT CORNERSTONE
22-Nov-24 BASINGSTOKE THE HAYMARKET
23-Nov-24 COVENTRY WARWICK ARTS CENTRE
29-Nov-24 NEW MILTON FOREST ARTS CENTRE
30-Nov-24 MAIDSTONE HAZLITT
06-Dec-24 GUILDFORD G LIVE
14-Dec-24 GUILDFORD G LIVE
17-Jan-25 CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION
18-Jan-25 EPSOM PLAYHOUSE
24-Jan-25 LUTON HAT FACTORY
25-Jan-25 LONDON BLACKHEATH HALLS
31-Jan-25 FARNHAM MALTINGS
01-Feb-25 BECCLES PUBLIC HALL
07-Feb-25 SHREWSBURY THEATRE SEVERN
08-Feb-25 LEICESTER THE Y
09-Feb-25 LINCOLNSHIRE THE ROPEWALK
14-Feb-25 FOLKESTONE QUARTERHOUSE
15-Feb-25 ISLE OF WIGHT QUAY ARTS
22-Feb-25 SOUTHEND PALACE THEATRE
28-Feb-25 NORWICH PLAYHOUSE
01-Mar-25 CRAWLEY THE HAWTH
07-Mar-25 YORK CRESCENT
08-Mar-25 MILTON KEYNES THE STABLES
14-Mar-25 TOTTON THE ATTIC
15-Mar-25 CHELMSFORD THEATRE
22-Mar-25 SALISBURY ARTS CENTRE
23-Mar-25 DORKING HALLS
02-Apr-25 BANBURY THE MILL
03-Apr-25 LEEDS THE WARDROBE
04-Apr-25 BIRMINGHAM MAC
05-Apr-25 READING SOUTH STREET ARTS CENTRE
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