Trainspotting Live

The best show at the Fringe - EVER!

Great show, adds nuance to the text and the performers put every bit of their energy into it.

You might be hesitating, wondering “is this show for me?”…stop worrying, it is mesmerising, a rollercoaster, with an incredible cast. It will simultaneously lift you up and tear you down. Go see for yourself.

Fantastic, gritty and totally immersive. True to the film a must see if you are a fan or even if you have never heard of the film or book.

Incredibly intense, incredible acting, if I had one show to recommend at Edinburgh, it’d be this

Absolutely amazing!!!! Never laughed and cried more!

This show is truly amazing and such an incredible spectacle to be part of in the audience. Each of the actors absolutely smashed it! I’ve never seen anything like this production before but I can’t wait for the next time I do.

Go and see it.

An amazing immersive experience. Funny, moving and utterly spectacular

Phenomenal! From the beginning the actors they bring you with the music, lights, and lots of energy inside this crazy rollercoaster of emotions. Absolutely amazing! For a fan of Irvine Welsh's works , this is fantastic! All the cast was great, connecting with the people. Strong and deeply show until the end! A must to see in Fringe 2022!

This is the best piece of theatre I have ever seen and I wish I could watch it again for the first time. Hilarious and deeply moving in equal parts, this show truly immerses the audience into the action for a captivating evening. Go and watch this performance; I guarantee you will not regret it.

This is a must see show. From the second we entered the room until the lights went down at the end I was on the edge of my seat. The actors are really amazing and the show is just brilliant. Probably the best show I've ever seen at the fringe in all the years of attending. Wow!

Trainspotting Live at the EICC was a muscular, slap in the face performance with bouts of high octane energy, inclusivity and hilarity alternating with moments of despair, emptiness and gloom.
It was particularly confronting to watch this performance in our country which is still struggling to gain control of a drug death pandemic which places us in the unenviable position of worst drug deaths in Europe .

The actors were at the door and on the floor and well into character raving and craving as we entered - against a booming, high energy sound track , they showed us to our seats, swore at us for taking photos, pawed us , leered at us and made us all realise that we were already in another world before the show had even started.

For the early part of the show the audience was the sixth character , or maybe the chorus. Renton and his gang included us in jokes , mocked us and made us feel complicit.
Later in the show, we the audience , exited stage left and we were back to five characters.

This part of the show was grotesque in the pain it evoked. In all of the noise of the tsunami of suffering , the actors used their craft to find pockets of quiet vulnerability, subtlety and fragility. For me, these were the most touching and emotional moments as they added a layered, textured sophistication to a performance that could so easily just have been about yelling at the world and its injustices.

Yepp. A must see...was not sure how they could adapt it to theatre....but they did. Fab actors and the feel of the movie.

This is a must watch, what an amazing show.