St Margaret's Hall, Durham

‘A performance of the one-act Shaw play, “The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet,” by Durham Dramatic Society, gained them first place in a Northern area preliminary round of the British Drama League Festival in St. Margaret’s Hall, Durham, last night. Other contestants were Chester-le-Street Dramatic Society (“Othello”); Gateshead Progressive Players (“After All These Years”); and Bensham Settlement (“The Dark Lady of the Sonnets”). Mrs Alida Richardson, of Whickham, was adjudicator’ (Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 15 February 1939). Shaw’s play was a losing finalist in the competition: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 20 February 1939; and see also the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 10 March 1939.