Welsh's Hole Opens in West End Rock Venue
Date: 1 February 1999
Novelist Irvine Welsh's shocking stage play You'll Have Had Your Hole opens in the West End tomorrow night, albeit not at a traditional theatrical venue. The play runs 2 February to 27 March 1999 (following previews from 25 January) at the Astoria 2, better known as a rock venue.
Similar to Irvine's cult hit novel Trainspotting, which was also turned into a stage play as well as a film, You'll Have Had Your Hole takes place in a seedy world of Scottish drug-taking. Set in an Edinburgh recording studio, two working class lads kidnap their boyhood friend Dex, now a small-time gangster, in order to settle a personal score. There follows drug-taking, torture and a passionate love affair between one of the kidnappers and Dex's girlfriend.
The play was roundly criticised as a gruesome and sadistic neo-Jacobean revenge tragedy when it premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse last year.
You'll Have Had Your Hole is directed by Ian Brown, who also directed the stage version of Trainspotting, and the cast includes Tam Dean Burn, Kirsty Mitchell, Billy McElhaney and James Cunningham.
In addition to Trainspotting, Welsh has authored numerous novels, songs and poems including The Acid House, Ecstasy and Filth. You'll Have Had Your Hole is his first original stage play.
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