PRESTON College's controversial Trainspotting play could make more headlines than they anticipated - it features a full-frontal nude scene.

The over-18s-only audiences who see the play, which runs at the Vernon Gallery until this Saturday (May 16), could be shocked by the hard-hitting story about a group of inner city heroin addicts.

But student actor Paul Stenton has more reasons than most to suffer pre-show nerves.

He plays Sick Boy and has to perform a heroin injection in the nude on stage.

But Paul and his fellow cast members say the play - adapted from Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel by Canadian Harry Gibson - puts a strong emphasis on the negative aspects of drug abuse.

The Wide Boy Theatre Company has been created to co-ordinate the production.

One of Paul's co-stars Alan Lishman, who plays Ewan McGregor's character Mark Renton, said: "It's the first time this version of the play has been performed in this country and it includes some new and exciting scenes which were excluded from the film version."

Tickets for the play cost £3 or £4, from Preston College on 772257, or from the University of Central Lancashire's Arts Centre, in Fylde Road, and the Vernon Auditorium in Moor Lane.

Our picture shows, from left, Alan Lishman, Paul Stenton and Kelly Alty.

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