Playhouse, Leicester

The performance date shown is conjectural. ‘Leicester’s summer Drama School was opened at the Playhouse, Leicester, last night, when Dr. R. F. Rattray gave the inaugural address … The School has been organised by British Drama League, and will last all week … Mr. Fernald held an audition for the casting of “The Showing up of Blanco Posnet,” and Miss Frances Mackenzie, also of the B.D.L., cast “Two Gentlemen of Soho.” During the week model rehearsals of these two plays will be undertaken’ (Leicester Evening Mail, 5 June 1934). ‘Our first Summer School of Drama is over; it has been a pronounced social and artistic success … Mr. Fernald, who undertook the rehearsals of “Blanco Posnet,” conducted(?) his cast skilfully. This rehearsal certainly demonstrated to everyone at the school that there are many competent young women actresses in our midst’ (Leicester Chronicle, 16 June 1934).