Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

‘Mr Neil Porter ... adjudicated at the second session of the preliminary performances in the tenth annual festival of the South-East Division of the Scottish Community Drama Association at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, last night ... [The plays presented included] “The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet,” by Bernard Shaw. This play, which was given by the Kirk o’Field College Drama Club, produced by Christine Orr and stage-managed by Elsa Davidson, was singled out by the adjudicator as the best work of the evening …Mr Porter said that “The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet” struck him as being a very happy choice indeed, as it was not acted too often. “Bernard Shaw,” he said, “writes a great many works, and it is possible to play these and keep an audience going, but I submit that the actor has to help him sometimes. Shaw plays will not play themselves entirely. An actor has got to bring something to them.” The production by the Kirk o’ Field College Drama Club was praised for its very good grouping, for fairly good pace and variety, for the imagination of the producer, for very good team work, for an adequate set, and for excellent costumes"' (The Scotsman, 11 February 1936; also The Scotsman, 17 February 1936).