Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter

On a sunny, summer afternoon in the midst of wartime England, seven children play in the Forest of Dean; the boys fight over apples, chase squirrels and imagine being fighter pilots whilst Angela and Audrey play house in the barn.

So far, so idyllic. But as the hour ticks by, dark shadows intrude, innocence is lost and we see the seeds of human cruelty as through a microscope.

Dennis Potter’s seminal play in which adult actors play a gang of seven-year-olds larking about is barely an hour long. Yet for all its smallness, it remains one of the most disturbing plays ever written.

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