St. Thomas’ Parish Hall, Acton, London

‘Commencing at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 27th, Acton branch of the Workers’ Educational Association will hold a social, entertainment, and dance, at St. Thomas’ Parish Hall in Bromyard-avenue. The evening’s programme will include a performance of Mr. G. B. Shaw’s one-act play, “The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet,” produced and performed by students and members of the branch' (West Middlesex Gazette, 31 March 1928). ‘The central feature [of the evening] was the performance of Shaw’s thrilling one-act play of primitive morality, “The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet.” The name part in this well-known whimsical modern inversion of the old-time morality play, depicting “justice” in a remote American mining town, was played with sound insight into a complex character by Mr. Arthur Acland, who had made up well and gave good point to the cynical bitterness of the ne’er-do-well horse-thief, who had found himself betrayed by sympathy with suffering into a good action that nearly cost him his life. The lay sermon at the close was given with the downright homely elocution proper to the character. Another clever study was that of Mr. Frank H. Coxall as the sturdy sheriff, facing the blood-thirsty mob and torn by his own conflicting impulses ... The realism of a turbulent court house crowd was a feature of the good production’ (Acton Gazette, 4 May 1928).