New Century Theatre, Motherwell

Performed at the opening of the theatre with the Northern Repertory Players under the direction of Mr Walter A. Chapman.

The Bellshill Speaker, 11 November 1932, advertised the ‘welcome return visit of Walter A. Chapman’s Famous Northern Repertory Players’ to the New Century Theatre, where they would present ‘a Strong Domestic Drama, “The Black Sheep of the Family,” Pathos, Romance, Comedy’ on Wednesday and Thursday, 16 and 17 November. The same issue of the newspaper described The Black Sheep of the Family as ‘a strong domestic drama of the type of which our patrons never seem to tire, and should prove a big draw. Pathos, romance and comedy are mixed together in pleasing quantities’. The author of the play is not named, so there is no certainty that it was Gladys Hastings Walton, but no other play with the same title was licensed by the Lord Chamberlain’s Office.