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Reviews:Trainspotting:East is East:The violence and vitriol of our disenfranchised youth
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TRAINSPOTTING, KING'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH ****
EAST IS EAST, DUNDEE REP ***
THERE are stories that imitate the surface of reality, in all its
ordinariness and complexity. And then there are stories of a
different order, stories that adopt a style, a tone, a vision so
extreme, and so complete in itself, that they delve beneath the
surface, into some deeper truth that unleashes a huge burst of energy
and recognition, even in people who have never lived lives anything
like those of the characters.
Twelve years on from its first publication - and in the week when
an 11-year-old collapsed at school ...
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