There are plenty familiar names in this selection of old photos of Edinburgh theatres in the mid-1970s, drawn from the Evening News archive - Rikki Fulton, Una McLean, Walter Carr and Johnny Beattie as well as Windsor Davies, Ian Lavender, Jimmy Edwards, Eric Sykes, Andy Stewart - and even Rudolf Nureyev.
And it’s not all panto and Festival - there’s a picture of the newly-refurbished Playhouse in 1975 and an open-air version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in modern dress at Leith Links.
Scroll through the pictures and get a flavour of what was on offer in Edinburgh’s theatre world 50 years ago.
17. Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev warming up at the Royal Ballet rehearsal of Giselle at the Kings Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival 1975. | TSPL Photo: Ian Band
18. Giant giraffe
Edinburgh's Theatre Workshop made a giant giraffe for the Children's Theatre Festival in September 1975. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
19. 'Save the Playhouse'
'Save the Playhouse': the Edinburgh Playhouse Society collecting signatures on a petition to Lothian Regional Council to take over the Playhouse theatre and re-open it in November 1975. | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton
20. Peter Pan
Anita Harris played Peter Pan in the Kings theatre production of Peter Pan in February 1975. | TSPL Photo: Jack Crombie