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Dennis Potter here introduces three of his acclaimed works, Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Joe's Ark (1974) and Cream in My Coffee (1980), and discusses the artistic potential and the limitations of a constantly evolving medium.
Blue Remembered Hills: 'The novelty is that the leading characters, a group of seven-year-old children, are played by adult actors. It is a brilliant device, employed not as a gimmick but to suggest that youthful behaviour is carried over into the grown-up world . . . Blue Remembered Hills won the BAFTA Award for Best Play in 1979 and is a landmark in television drama.' The Times
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.About the Author
Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Blue Remembered Hills is a very odd play. Firstly it is performed by adults. Secondly the events in the play are very odd, with the children stamping a squirrel to death and then a barn burning down with one of the children inside. However after reading it thorugh it becomes an amazing piece of literary extravaganza, the whole play which is written in a dialect called "Forest" is superb, and the main events are linked together with believable dialogue. The whole play is set in one of England's darkest times, during WWII which makes the play particularly memorable as there are constant references to harming Germans, Italians and "Japs". This play is something special which will continue to be cherished for many, many generations...
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I bought this play for my son as he has to do it as a piece for drama school, but because he said I would like it, I read it myself. It is basically a play set in war time about children and their views on the world, acted by adults, then morphing into them at the end of the play. There are very funny moments and very poignant ones. I enjoyed it and cant wait to see my sons year acting it out on stage in May this year.
14 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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This play is amazing, Dennis Potter is a genius in his own right. The idea alone of using adults to play children is ingenius, the play when read or watched all the way through has an excellent concept, of the loss of innocence. The basic outline of the play is that it is set in the Second World War in the South, and children, each with their own characteristics are enjoying their childhood, doing the normal child thing of innocent play with no recognistion of adult life, the end of the play has a dramatic climax, which represents the moment we lose our carefree life and join the world of adulthood. I would recommend any Dennis Potter fans to read this and anyone else who loves a brillent well thought out story/play.
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