Edinburgh Retro: 39 fascinating photos of theatre life in the early 1990s, including Sean Connery and family, Rudolf Nureyev and bingo

Edinburgh’s theatre life is always lively - both inside and outside the Festival.

Here are some fascinating photos selected from the Evening News archives which give a flavour of what was happening on Edinburgh’s theatre scene in the early 1990s.

There are pictures of Sean Connery - and his family - as well as Stephen Fry and Rudolf Nureyev, not to mention singers Barry Manilow and Vanilla Ice.

And there are also pictures of the Empire Theatre as a bingo hall before it was transformed into the Festival Theatre.

Scroll through and get a taste of theatre in Edinburgh three decades ago.

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