About Irvine Welsh’s PORNO
Stage adaptation of the follow up novel to TRAINSPOTTING. Set 20 years after TRAINSPOTTING, what has become of RENTON, SICKBOY, SPUD & BEGBIE
The WEST END SMASH HIT is coming to Dundee Rep Theatre on Thursday 5th November ’26. A must see for all Irvine Welsh fans.
Contains swearing, drug use, language of a sexual nature and hysterical shenanigans. As if you’d expect anything else!
Adapted by Davie Carswell, the writer of The TOMMY BURNS Story and Glasgow Kiss.
PORNO started with a sold out run at the Pleasance as part of the Edinburgh Fringe ’22.
Since then it’s gone on to have multiple sold out runs at the King’s in Glasgow, a UK tour including the Liverpool Olympia, the Crewe Lyceum, the Manchester Waterside, a 7 week sold out run at the Art’s Theatre in London’s West End (where it was nominated as best new play in the What’s On Stage Awards) and a sold out run at the Leith Theatre.
Porno at the Arts Theatre in Leicester Square is very good. It’s very good indeed. In fact it’s f**king great. I urge you to see it.”
– Irvine Welsh
It’s difficult to imagine anyone but Robert Carlyle taking on the role of psychopath Begbie, but Chris Gavin is a worthy successor
– Natlie O’Donoghue – Broadway World
The characterisation of Welsh’s cast of crazy personas is phenomenal. Jenni Duffy’s Lizzie is salacious but brings the heart where it is needed when she delves into the dark hole of body image problems
– James Robertson – The Reviews Hub London
Tom Carter’s racist, homophobic police constable Knox is an ironic delight, while his daughter Lizzie, played by Jenni Duffy with a carnal gusto that puts the men to shame, is quite something to watch
– Jonathan Evans – The Spy In The Stalls
