Blue Remembered Hills - 4.5 out of 5 stars Perspective Arts Theatre Company TICKETS:  https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1627653 Blue Remembered Hills is Dennis Potter’s 1979 television play, set in the Forest of Dean. It follows seven children as they play, quarrel, fantasise and turn against one another over an afternoon. The playwright’s device in ensuring adults are cast as children is to unsettle the audience’s expectations, presenting childhood not as inherently innocent, but as a concentrated reflection of adult society. Through Geoff Brittain’s direction, we are challenged to the idea that children are naturally innocent. While children are imaginative and affectionate, they are also casually violent, vindictive and fascinated by domination. Their cruelty appears spontaneous rather than evil, making it especially disturbing, and Brittain conveys this contradiction effectively. His direction ensures they are not simply presented as “little adults”, but instead their...