Rehearsal Theatre, London

‘The best thing the Hampstead Amateurs did at the Rehearsal Theatre on Saturday last was “A Well-remembered Voice,” a Mystery, by J. M. Barrie … [which] is a delightful “Barrie”-ish treatise on spiritualism, telling how a lost son appears, not to the practised devotees of the cult, but to the somewhat sceptic father. There are some clever lines, and the situations are good. Mr. Gordon Seddon acted well as Mr. Don, sincere and true, and Miss Joan Dunsford as Mrs. Don portrayed the character of the “believing” wife capitally. Messrs. J. M. Donaldson and Douglas Service as Mr. Rogers and Major Armitage were both responsible for some fine character acting. As Laura Bell, the lost one’s sweetheart, Miss Evelyn Sharp put in some fine work, and “Another,” as voiced by Matthew Norgate, if somewhat earthly, was nevertheless satisfactory’ (The Era, 17 March 1920). ‘On … March 13 … a triple bill … was presented at the Rehearsal Theatre … by the Hampstead Amateur Players. It opened with Sir James Barrie’s very Opportunist attempt to deal with the vested problem of the possibility of communicating with the dead. “A Well-Remembered Voice” … The moral of this piece, if one takes it, with all its trivialities, seriously, is that those bereft of dear ones should be bright and cheerful, not sad and depressed’ (The Stage, 18 March 1920).