Dennis Potter
Blue Remembered Hills remains one of Dennis Potter's best-known plays, and is likely the one that is most often still produced on the stage (even though it was originally written for television). It is a story about childhood; the "land of lost content" of Housman's verses.
The characters are young children, but Potter's twist here is that they are not played by young child-actors. Instead it is adult actors that fill the roles, which of course puts quite a different spin on things, even as the adults act in best childish manner.
It is 1943, in the West Country, with war in the air and the world of adults still largely a mystery. The different children have different fears and temperaments. They tease, play, argue, chase a squirrel. It is still a world of considerable innocence, but innocence comes tumbling down in an awful climax………..
At Norden Farm - Courtyard Theatre
Adults £9, £8 Concessions. For more details contact the Box Office
Modified 20 February 2004