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Trainspotting
Phoenix Theatre
2605 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh's blackly funny look at drug addiction, comes to the stage from Shadow Horse Theatre. Based on Welsh's cult favorite novel, which was later made into a film by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Trainspotting follows Mark Renton, a young heroin addict in working-class Edinburgh. Surrounded by unemployment, AIDS and a group of addicted con men, petty criminals and misfits, Mark tries to get clean and escape. See this gritty, punchy production at The Phoenix Theater in Minneapolis.
Thru - Feb 13, 2016
Price: $20
Box Office: 612-377-2285
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2480640
Trainspotting Reviews
| Twin Cities Pioneer Press - Somewhat Recommended
"...Under the direction of Peter Beard, the show is not always on firm ground, though. An extended bit — a precision-timed one that involves a character whose accent is so unintelligible that he requires subtitles — doesn’t work if the actor performing it mistimes it or fumbles for lines, both of which happened Saturday night. And the set — or, rather, lack of a set — doesn’t help the audience enter into the world the mostly deft actors are working to create. It’s supposed to be minimal, for sure, but the raggedy black curtain that surrounds the actors in “Trainspotting” feels less like a choice than a sloppy accident."
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