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Trainspotting The Musical

Theatre Royal, Theatre Square, Nottingham, NG1 5ND

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Trainspotting The Musical

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Monday 18 - Saturday 23 January 2027 
Theatre Royal
Tickets £25.50 to £65

 

Thirty years on from the film that changed everything, TRAINSPOTTING: THE MUSICAL has its world premiere. Written by Irvine Welsh with Music & Lyrics by Stephen McGuinness & Irvine Welsh and Directed & Developed by Caroline Jay Ranger.

Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud, Tommy, and Kelly, the industrial drug-crazed working-class heroes, are back.

In 1996, CHOOSE LIFE sounded like a challenge. Thirty years on, the landscape has shifted, but the hunger hasn't. Addiction hasn't disappeared - it's shifted. It's quieter now, more embedded. Less needle, more screen. Less escape, more repetition. The same restless search for something to fill the space.

The musical highlights the world we see changing around us, the obscene concentration of wealth, economic and political power in the hands of so few people. It addresses the modern culture of powerlessness. Art the singing-and-dancing Trojan horse that delivers direction and relevance.

This isn't nostalgia, it's closer than that. The past isn't revisited - it lingers. The musical doesn't tidy it. It sits with it. Listens to it. And lets it sing. New songs, classic songs, a musical like never before. Not for the easily confronted. It's funny, loud, dynamic, and brings a dark dangerous energy never experienced before on the West End stage.

CHOOSE LIFE.

Casting to be announced.

Cast and performance schedule subject to change without notice.

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Trainspotting The Musical (18 Jan 2027 - 23 Jan 2027)

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