TRAINSPOTTING Transfers To The Vaults

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Irvine Welsh and Danny Boyle's iconic, generation-defining film Trainspotting, and ahead of the 2017 release of its sequel, a no-holds-barred immersive theatrical adaptation opens at The Vaults in Waterloo on 8 November (previews from 3 November), and run until 15 January 2017. To further mark the anniversary, 20 tickets at £20 will be available for every performance.

This strictly limited 11-week transfer follows two sell-out seasons at the King's Head Theatre for the production, which is directed by the venue's artistic director Adam Spreadbury-Maher in collaboration with Greg Esplin. Against a dynamic soundscape of 80s dance music, the stories of a group of friends living through the Edinburgh heroin scene - Renton, Tommy, Sick Boy, Begbie and Alison - are brought to life with humour, poetry and provocatively graphic scenes across 75 intense, immersive minutes.

"I was shocked.. and I wrote the f*cking thing" - Irvine Welsh

A special performance space is being created within The Vaults' Smiths Arch for the production, with a capacity of just 200 split between immersive general admission where Audience members will be seated all around the space amidst the action, and a limited number of traditional theatre seats. This transfer marks the first collaboration between the King's Head Theatre and Seabright Productions, the Olivier Award-winning commercial producers behind shows such as Showstopper! The Improvised Musical and Potted Potter.

"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on the couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f*ckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yerself in a home, a total f*ckin embarrassment tae the selfish, f*cked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life."

The cast are Rachael Anderson (June), Chris Dennis (Begbie), Calum Barbour (Mother Superior), Greg Esplin (Tommy), Michael Lockerbie (Sickboy), Erin Marshall (Alison) and Gavin Ross (Renton). The adaptation is by Harry Gibson.

Box Office: www.TrainspottingLive.com / 020 7183 5942

Warnings: Contains nudity, very strong language, heavy drug/needle use.

Age guidance: 16+

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