Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting Live
★★★★★ Immersive Excellence
The noise coming out of London currently would have us believe that Trainspotting has run its course, with the cancellation of the new musical based on Irvine Welsh’s original novel.
Trainspotting tour cancelled
Trainspotting The Musical cancels tour
The UK tour of Trainspotting The Musical has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales, with one cast member reported to say: “If you can only sell 19% in Edinburgh, you’re fu**ed”.
Trainspotting returns – as a musical
Trainspotting Musical to open UK tour at Playhouse
Choose a book. Choose a play. Choose a film. Choose an immersive Fringe show. Choose a… Musical? Yes. Choose a musical. Choose a UK tour. Choose the Edinburgh Playhouse. Choose October 19 2026.
Trainspotting Live
★★★★★ Vitriolic
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. And choose watching this show. Trainspotting Live is back at the Fringe for another successful season in the tunnel under the EICC, and it packs in an absolute punch during its eighty-minute run-time.
Trainspotting Live
★★★★★ Visceral
Overstimulating, intense, shocking, and emotional, Trainspotting Live at Pleasance at EICC isn’t afraid to take it too far – and has become a sensation by doing just that.
Trainspotting Live
★★★★★ Uncompromising:
Take the original Trainspotting movie and put it in IMAX. Turn the sound up to 120%, the acting to 130%. and have all the gore, faeces and bile flying out of the screen, right up in your face. You’ve now got some sense of Trainspotting Live.
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.
Trainspotting
✭✭✭✭✭ Obtrusive Masterpiece
Young critics scheme review:
Visceral images, bombarding music and the classically sorrowful plot, In Your Face Theatre immerses you in Irvine Welsh’s drug-fuelled Trainspotting.
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.
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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