Trainspotting Live, the acclaimed no-holds-barred immersive in-your-face theatre staging of Irvine Welsh’s classic novel, is at Southampton Engine Rooms from Tuesday February 20 -24.

Harry Gibson’s original stage adaptation, written before it became the famous blockbuster film, was instantly successful and controversial, and won The Sunday Times Award for Best New Play.

New to the cast are Andrew Still as Sick Boy and James Boal as Mother Superior. They join returning cast members Rachael Anderson, who plays Laura, Finlay Bain as Tommy, Chris Dennis as Begbie, Erin Marshall as Alison and Frankie O’Connor as Renton.

Glasgow-born Andrew Still shot to fame when he was just 17 and was cast as Joel Dexter in Hollyoaks (winning a Sunday Mail Young Scot Award). He spent 18 months in the soap and its darker offshoot, Hollyoaks Later. In Waterloo Road he played Scott Fairchild, a pupil with multiple exclusions from other schools. He also appeared in the BBC Three comedy Fried, the National Theatre Of Scotland trilogy The James Plays and most recently co-starred with Laurence Fox in a UK tour of The Real Thing.

James Boal is a Northern-Irish actor based in Edinburgh. His recent roles include the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Thor in Manhattan Children’s Theatre Company’s Mermalade, and William Shakespeare in The Shakespeares: Scenes from a Marriage at The Rose Playhouse, London as part of the “From the Thistle to the Rose” Festival 2017.

Trainspotting Live captures the passion and the controversy of the famous novel, then globally successful film, and repackages it into a full-throttle show where the audience are literally part of the action, including the notorious ‘Worst Toilet in Scotland’ scene.

Against a dynamic soundscape of 80s dance music, the stories of a group of friends living through the Edinburgh heroin scene - Renton, Tommy, Sick Boy, Begbie and Alison - are brought to life with humour, poetry and provocatively graphic scenes It’s a ticket to ride you won’t soon forget. Choose life. For avid fans this is a must, and if you’ve never read the book or seen Danny Boyle’s iconic, generation-defining Trainspotting film: this is your ticket to a ride you won’t soon forget.

Trainspotting Live, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, adapted by Harry Gibson, is directed by Kings Head Theatre artistic director Adam Spreadbury-Maher in collaboration with Greg Esplin.

For more information or to book tickets, please visit: trainspottinglive.seetickets.com.