Trainspotting review " Renton and co return to the stage with raw power
Citizens theatre, GlasgowHarry Gibson's adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel about urban alienation speaks as loudly, scabrously and irreverently as everThey used to call it "the Aids capital of Europe". A crackdown on drug use in Edinburgh in the 1980s made it harder for users to acquire clean needles, so it soon became home to a generation of needle-sharing addicts. The HIV virus proliferated, in a city with a histor…