PRODUCTIONS

“Every production at GAA showcases outstanding quality and excellence”

— Amanda Beveridge

PRODUCTION GALLERY

I <3 by Glasgow Acting Academy / Ayr Gaiety Theatre

We Will Rock You by Brian May and Ben Elton / Glasgow Acting Academy

Yule by Glasgow Acting Academy / Glasgow Acting Academy

Circus Olympus by Lindsay Price / Glasgow Acting Academy

Start, Sink, Stop devised by Glasgow Acting Academy / Glasgow Acting Academy

Ash by Milly Sweeney / Glasgow Acting Academy

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare / Glasgow Acting Academy

SpongeBob the Musical by Kyle Jarrow / Glasgow Acting Academy

Carrie by Laurence D. Cohen and Michael Gore / Glasgow Acting Academy

Annie by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Chernin / Glasgow Acting Academy

We Hear You by Glasgow Acting Academy / Ayr Gaiety Theatre

Hamish and Greta by Bronagh and Fallon Docherty / Glasgow Acting Academy

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson / Glasgow Acting Academy

Dracula the Bloody Truth by John Nicolson and Le Navet Bete / Glasgow Acting Academy

A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare / Glasgow Acting Academy

I <3 devised by Glasgow Acting Academy / Ayr Gaiety Theatre

Death In The Wings by Maddie Grieve / Glasgow Acting Academy

Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl adapted by Fallon Docherty / Glasgow Acting Academy

Chaos by Laura Lomas / Glasgow Acting Academy

Hospital Food by Eugene O'Hare / Glasgow Acting Academy

Robin Hood by Ryan Little / Glasgow Acting Academy

A woman with braided hair wearing round glasses with colored lenses, a blue checkered blouse, and denim overalls, standing in front of multicolored fabric strips.

No Regrets by Gary McNair/National Theatre/Connections Festival

Matilda Book by Tim Rice and Music by Tim Minchin / Glasgow Acting Academy

Ms Campbell's Class Fifth Period by Layla Josephine / Glasgow Acting Academy

“Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”

— Amanda Beveridge

No Regrets

By Gary McNair

Over the course of five years, Glaswegian playwright Gary McNair spoke to people at all stages and in all walks of life about the subject of regret. This play marks the results of those conversations. Stories of love, violence, and staying for just one more drink collide to give us a deeper understanding of what it means to regret.

This production was performed as part of the National Theatre Connections festival 2025, and was selected to be performed down at The Dorfman Theatre.

We couldn’t be prouder of the cast and creative team behind No Regrets. We set out to create a show that truly showcased our performers and could stand proudly alongside professional productions - and we believe we achieved exactly that.

I <3

By Glasgow Acting Academy

Glasgow Acting Academy performed as part of Youth Theatre Arts Scotland's National Festival of Youth Theatre 2024 with an original piece, 'I <3'!

Our Class of Merit have collaborated with GAA Alumni writers to create their production for this years festival. Combining new writing and physical theatre the cast explore the complexity of the young heart. From friendship to romance, family, our communities and everything in between, love is all around.

July - 7th 2024

Hospital Food.

By Eugene O'Hare

Ten teenagers from the ages 14 to 17 are the residents of a teenage cancer unit in a city hospital. All of them are undergoing various conventional treatments for different cancers at different stages of progression. Their shared illness bonds them and they support each other as they reveal their fears and hopes for the future while confronting, head on, the very real prospects of untimely death. The teenagers have a special room called The Retreat where they can have peer meetings without adult intrusion - a place to go where it is calm and where their thoughts can be intimated to each other without fear. What is discussed in The Retreat stays in The Retreat.

GAA raised funds for the Emma Cameron Foundation, set up in memory of brave Emma Cameron sadly who passed away in 2011.

August - 29th and 30th 2022

We Will Rock You.

By Ben Elton

Based on the music of Queen, We Will Rock You is set 300 years in the future in a futuristic and globally corporate world. Planet Earth has been renamed the Planet Mall and is controlled by the Globalsoft Corporation. The head of Globalsoft is the sinister Killer Queen, who has banned all non-computer generated music. She has heard of a prophecy that instruments have been hidden somewhere on the planet and that ‘The Dreamer’ will emerge from the people to show the way to them. She orders her Chief of Police, Khashoggi, to get to the bottom of the matter and crush any rebellion. Meanwhile, Galileo, a young student and an outsider, is desperate to “break free” from this corporate world. He hears lyrics in his dreams and is heralded as the star of the prophecy by the Bohemians who have been searching for the lost instruments. To fulfill the prophecy. Galileo must evade the clutches of the Killer Queen and finally bring back the music. With the help of Pop, an aging hippie librarian, Galileo and Scaramouche find Rock's Holy Grail--Brian May's guitar--buried in the remains of Wembley Stadium.

June 21st, 23rd, 24th, 25th

Jekyll and Hyde.

By Evan Placey

Our senior acting students performed Jekyll and Hyde in 2022. Everyone has another face they hide behind… A radical re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, where civilised society meets seedy underground in a thrilling collision of Victorian Scotland with the here and now.

February - 21st and 22nd 2022

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