Ebury Hall, Rickmansworth

‘That splendid little group of players, the West Herts Players’ Club, are to be heartily congratulated on the programme, which they have announced. It would serve to show societies caught in the deep groove of current farce, what I believe to be the error of their ways. The productions, of which there are four each season, are given to active and associate members of the club at their own theatre, Ebury Hall, at Rickmansworth … December 13, 14, and 15 will see a double bill, “Martine,” an idyll of French peasant life, and Bernard Shaw’s “The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet”’ (Uxbridge and West Drayton Gazette, 5 October 1934; also Buckinghamshire Examiner, 5 October 1934). ‘[“Blanco Posnet”] was an outstanding success. What a playwright is Shaw! From the rise of the curtain to its fall there is movement, vivid colour, sudden and intense drama, shrewd and true-to-life humour, and the audience’s attention is riveted all the time. The pace of the play was terrific, and the producer, G. Ogilvie Mitchell, saw that it was kept up the whole way through ... No summary could possibly do justice to the many twists and turns of the story. The play is a perfect specimen of its type and was superbly acted throughout by the whole of a fairly large cast ... The producer has to be congratulated on one of the best amateur performances Rickmansworth has seen for a very long time' (Buckinghamshire Examiner, 21 December 1934).