Irvine Welsh
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Welsh adopts Leith Theatre
Irvine Welsh to be Leith Theatre patron
Leith Theatre Trust has increased the heat in its attempts to save Leith’s only major theatre, a year after signing a five year lease to run the venue.
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Review – Trainspotting
✭✭✭✩✩ Hardcore theatre-making:
Wild and unruly, In Your Face Theatre’s production of Trainspotting makes interesting use of the open space of the Out of the Blue Drill Hall for its immersive, promenade format.
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Irvine Welsh praises Edinburgh Festival
Strange Town documentary catches “bad boy” in reflective mood. By Thom Dibdin Irvine Welsh is seen praising the Edinburgh festivals, in a documentary made by the Strange Town Youth Theatre at Leith’s Out of the Blue Drill Hall, to be broadcast on Wednesday evening on BBC2 Scotland. Edinburgh Stories is a half hour documentary made […]
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No Edinburgh Filth for McAvoy
Welsh’s Filth starts shooting in Glasgow By Thom Dibdin Glasgow is being used, once again, as the main location for a film adaptation of an Edinburgh-set Irvine Welsh novel, as principal photography begins there on Filth, staring James McAvoy as a racist, homophobic policeman. Trainspotting was largely filmed in Glasgow, the famous opening sequence along […]