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Trainspotting: The Musical

July 2026 - September 2026 Theatre Royal Haymarket

Phil McIntyre Entertainments The Random House Group Limited
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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.

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Videos

3 videos

Irvine Welsh Discusses Trainspotting the Musical

World Premiere From July 2026

Official Trailer

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TTM_110726_MattCrockett_6469-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Finlay Paul
TTM_110726_MattCrockett_6905_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Sheridan Townsley
TTM_110726_MattCrockett_6996_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Lewis Kidd
TTM_110726_MattCrockett_7722_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Melanie Marshall
TTM_110726_MattCrockett_6762_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Ashley J. Russell
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TTM_110726_MattCrockett_7606_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Finlay Paul
TTM_110726_MattCrockett_5389_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Lewis Kidd Yana Harris
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TTM_110726_MattCrockett_6263_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Frankie O’Connor
TTM_110726_MattCrockett_6616_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Kieran Andrew
TTM_110726_MattCrockett_7504_MattCrockett_edit Matt Crockett Featuring Lewis Kidd Sheridan Townsley
TTM_110726_MattCrockett_6192_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Lewis Kidd
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TTM_110726_MattCrockett_5225_MattCrockett-scaled Matt Crockett Featuring Lewis Kidd

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