Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16790 in Books
• Published on: 1990-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 52 pages

Customer Reviews

Blue Remembered Hills, simply amazing....
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...

Dennis Potter, a genius in his own right
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.

Good
I bought thsi book for my GCSE Drama on Bluer Remembered Hills so that is the only play i read before returning it. Any way its a play set during the war about kids, very well written and easy to pikc up but not to easy to put down!