Albert Hall, Leeds

In the week beginning 31 October 'Shaw’s “The Showing-up of Blanco Posnet” will be staged, “The Doctor’s Dilemma” having been abandoned. Miss Edith Craig, daughter of Miss Ellen Terry, will have charge of the production, which will preceded by W. B. Yeats’s “Deirdre”’ (Yorkshire Evening Post, 10 September 1921). ‘The following is the cast for the production of “The Showing-Up of Blanco Posnet” (George Bernard Shaw), under the auspices of the Leeds Repertory Season Committee, at the Albert Hall, Leeds, during the week (Wednesday evening excluded, but Saturday afternoon included) beginning October 31:- Babsy, Kathleen Ellis; Lottie, Rose Smith; Hannah, Neenah A. Alexandre; Jessie, Hilda Marsden; Emma, F. Muriel Hague; Elder Daniels, Norman Jackson; Blanco Posnet, J Eric David; Strapper Kemp, A. G. French: The Sheriff, J. W. Glew; Feemy Evans, Eileen Allen, The Woman, Mollie Gray Heald’ (Yorkshire Evening Post, 8 October 1921). ‘There was a more gratifying attendance at the opening of the second week’s performances of the Leeds Repertory season at the Albert Hall last night, indicative of the popularity which the first series of performances had served to establish. This week’s programme is composed of two short productions, George Bernard Shaw’s “The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet,” and Yeats’ “Deirdre.” The entirely contrasting features of the two productions at once precludes comparison of their respective merits, but in both the players revealed a fundamental understanding of the author’s conceptions and a pleasing facility to execute their interpretation. Mr. J. Eric David is a very real figure as Blanco Posnet, endowing the rough cowboy horse-thief with strong human appeal. Mr. J. W. Glew depicts the Town Sheriff with remarkable reality, and others who materially assist include Miss Molly Gray Heald and Mr. A. G. French’ (Leeds Mercury, 1 November 1921).