RETRO DUNDEE

Here's a fine shot of Peter Ustinov having a wee chuckle to himself in the Nethergate. The 2 shops in the background are the Civil Se...

I've already raided this magazine for its content on quite a few previous posts, and so this is me just getting round to putting the fr...

I don't have the exact year this scene was captured but this is what the view down Logie Street was like around the late 60s-early 70...

Let's find out what was going on at the Whitehall Theatre in April 1970... First up was "The Lex McLean Show". Lex, you may r...

The Thomson-Leng Amateur Musical Society staged "The Wizard Of Oz" panto in 1966. Not many amateur societies had ...

Wildcat theatre company received this rave review in local mag, Street Life, in November 1988. The show they put on at the Bonar Hall was fo...

There was a wee twist on The Scottish Play when Betty & Boaby presented their version of "MacBeth" at Dundee Rep in ...

Dundee High School did Gilbert & Sullivan in the 60's, as did the Grove, and joining them was Morgan Academy who performed HM...

Dundee High School used to (and maybe still does) put on an opera every 2 years. Their choice for 1965 was Gilbert & Sullivan...

Leaping forward a couple of decades from the old Rep in Nicoll Street to their purpose built theatre in Tay Square, here's a c...

1st pic - This was the main entrance to the original Rep Theatre in Nicoll Street. It had been here since 1939 until a fire in May...

Not only was the original Rep programme for "Photo Finish" kept, but here are the original reviews too. Top one is a...

I have a few original 60's Rep Theatre programmes in my collection. So plucking an example out for Retro, this one here is...

  One of Retro Dundee's contributors, Joe Jordan, had a photographic exhibition at the Rep back in July 1987. At the time, Joe (AKA The ...

A little glimpse at what was showing at the Steps in April 1989. Not much in the way of family films, but looking through the list it re...

On the flip side of the Rep Theatre leaflet is the list of plays that were on offer during April & June 1963. However, because of the f...

The Rep Theatre was based in Nicoll Street (off Ward Road) when this leaflet was printed. It has general info about the theatre on this sid...

This is the same top of the Wellgate Steps area in the previous photo only in it's brand new transformation into the Wellgate Centre, L...

The top picture was taken in the summer of 1979 and shows the foundations being put in place for the new Rep Theatre - with the v...

When the old original Rep Theatre in Nicoll Street burnt down in the early 60's, this church in Lochee Road became the Rep's ...