Trainspotting the Musical: A Bad, Bad Trip Down Memory Lane

'Trainspotting the Musical was a delicious shot in the arm of 90s nostalgia'

Trainspotting was an iconic film when it was released in 1996 and remains so today, but now it's been turned into a musical

Trainspotting the Musical: A bad, bad trip down memory lane

Trainspotting the Musical | Theatre Royal Haymarket | ★☆☆☆☆  I was 13 when Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting adaptation was released – I’d never seen anything like it and it became a seminal text of my teenage years. Two decades later, I luxuriated in the condensed hit of nostalgia of the 2017 sequel. I’ve read the books: not just the original – a stone-cold classic – but the various follow-ups and spin-offs, even after the quality became… patchy. The…

'Trainspotting is just the ticket if you like rude, raucous and profane'

Irvine Welsh's nineties tale of Edinburgh junkies arrives in the West End with little regard to modern sensibilities... and it's the best feel-bad show in town

Depressing, misjudged Trainspotting the Musical is like a stodgy museum piece

A strong cast can’t save this ill-conceived take of Welsh’s classic addiction novel

‘Mindbogglingly bad’: ‘Trainspotting the Musical’ at Theatre Royal Haymarket Review

Choose life, choose a job… choose anything apart from Irvine Welsh’s mindbogglingly bad musical adaptation of his own classic novel

Trainspotting with jazz hands and hoedowns? This musical is a muddle

A handful of moving performances are overwhelmed by weak new songs and an uncertain vision for the stage