Trainspotting The Play: Harry Gibson interview
10 years on from the original production, the stage version of Trainspotting is set to steam through the UK again next year. Harry Gibson wrote and directed the original adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel, and he’s doing it again this time round too. Spike has a truly brilliant interview with Gibson about what it’s like to tackle Trainspotting again - “Language is a big part of Trainspotting’s appeal. People write dissertations about it. The play has 147 cunts.”
There’s also the original 1996 interview which I did with Gibson when Trainspotting first arrived on the scene. Besides his sterling sense of humour, Gibson has a lot of intelligent stuff to say about theatre in general, why drugs are nice if you’ve learnt Latin and how to scrape an actor off the floor.
More on Trainspotting the play:
Spike | Google | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Wikipedia
Open Directory | Technorati: Trainspotting the play
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Trainspotting (again)
- Trainspotting Prequel Planned
- Catholic blockhead
- Trainspotting vs. Lanark
- Cut Up Part 2
