Bon Scott's Life to be a Play

Bon Scott’s life is to be dramatised and adapted into a new stage play in Australia.

Bon Scott is the late front man for rock band AC/DC, who died from alcohol poisoning in 1980, with the band later continuing with replacement Brian Johnson.

The new production will be titled Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be - The Story of Bon Scott, and will follow his years and rise to fame.

Nick Barker is taking on the titular role and has said to Undercover.fm, "The impact that AC/DC had on me as a teenager was huge.

Even growing up as a musician I spent a lot of my time playing in pubs and AC/DC was the benchmark.

Bon Scott is an Australian icon as much as (outlaw) Ned Kelly. We're doing his show with the humility and truth that it deserves." 

The play will open at the Athenaeum Theater in Melbourne on 12 July