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Response Phase - This term we studied a play, originally written for television, called Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter.
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Response Phase This term we studied a play, originally written for television, called Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter. It is described as a "deceptively simple tale", the reason for this is that although the plot appears to show the events of seven West-Country seven year olds on a summer afternoon during the Second World War it holds a completely different underlying meaning. Over the course of the play the children play and fight as seven year olds do. However Dennis Potter insisted that the seven year olds be played by adults. His reason for this was that he wanted his audience to realise the true realities of childhood are not "transparent with innocence", which he said himself. He didn't want the audience to react to two girls playing with doll with an indulgent "ah!" he did not want people to see the adorable and seemingly innocent side to childhood. From...
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