Jose Solís takes a look at Trainspotting Live:
When asked the question: if you could go inside any movie you love, which one would you choose? Cinephiles tend to go for films set in tropical or fantastical locations, where the stakes are rather low when it comes to having their lives threatened, and where you know you'd come out a hero (The Wizard of Oz would be my choice, if only to wear those ruby slippers for a second). As much as I love Trainspotting, Danny Boyle's adaptation of Irvine Welsh's seminal novel, I would never choose it as a film I'd want to experience in real life. With its harrowing look at addiction and characters always on the verge of losing control, it's very much the equivalent of an existential trial, and yet in Trainspotting Live, which opened July 15 at Roy Arias Stages, directors Adam Spreadbury-Maher and Greg Esplin achieve what seems to be impossible: they transform the nightmare into a dream machine. . . . |
