It’s a back in time look at the swish of the curtain and the smell of the greasepaint this week as we tread the boards of the past with local am-dram groups down the decades.

Zany, madcap events transpire in the farce Pools Paradise performed by Buckfastleigh's amateur dramatic society in November 1990 (MDA)

Oh yes, I Remember It Well, Marian Copsey as Mamita and Peter Prince as Honore in a production of Gigi performed at the Riviera in Teignmouth from November 190 (MDA)

September 1987 and the cast of Ashburton Scouts Gang Show line up for the camera (MDA)

Mark Chamberlain and Peter Head who were performing in the Ashburton Scouts Gang Show in September 1987 (MDA)