People's Theatre, Newcastle

The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday 6 January 1951, reported that the following week the People’s Theatre, Newcastle, would present Shaw’s “Far-fetched Fables”: ‘With the new play the theatre is presenting “The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet,” an old Shaw play which the Censor banned entirely for many years. The reason for the ban was understood to be that in it Shaw referred to God in a way which might thought blasphemous. After several years, and a long fight by Shaw, the ban was removed’.