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How does Potter use dramatic devices in the play to Make the world of childhood more convincing?
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Sarah Hurworth 29/01/2003 10H How does Potter use dramatic devices in the play to Make the world of childhood more convincing? Blue remembered hills' by Dennis Potter This play is set in the West Country during the Second World War. It shows the daily play of children and how the happenings around them and the adult world influence them, with consequences. Potter adapts many dramatic devices into his play to make it more realistic. Blue Remembered Hills is a straightforward realistic play, but Potter still packs a powerful punch in it. However, the most striking thing about the play is the adults assuming the roles of the young children but is generally lost on the page, and so it is not quite as effective read as it is seen. By having adults cast to play the children it makes the play seen more exadurated and temperamental. All the sound and body language that children...
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