Blue Remembered Hills. Dennis Potter took the poem and turned it in to a play about a group of children who were on there school holidays in the forest of dean in Gloucester. Potter is asking if childhood is such a land of lost content and is children so

In the play the behaviour is realistic because that is what they would really do if they were in the forest of dean.  They do things that only children do for example in scene 5 Donald, Angela and Audrey are fanaticising about being adults and are playing houses. Also they laugh about knickers being made out of silk.  John and peter have a fight in scene 11. It all started in scene 10 Raymond was standing on his head and Audrey shouted that there was blood in his ear and John was standing up for Raymond and Peter was trying to make Raymond loose and then they get in to a fight and John won and peter was running away “Run, babby, run!” and peter ends up in the old barn talking to Donald. In this part of the play Dennis Potter is trying to make them look as if they are not so innocent.  They are being deliberately cruel when they are trying to knock a squirrel out of a tree and they eventually knock it out and kill it. An incident of when they are unintentionally being cruel is when they trap Donald in the barn when Donald is starting a fire in amongst the hay. The other children did this because they wanted to trap him in the barn but did not realize that he had started a fire in it. In a way they were being cruel by locking him in the barn to begin with.

“Doosn’t call I that, Angela! You promised!” this is when in scene 5; Angela and Audrey are calling Donald “Donald Duck” and going “Quack Quack” at him. Donald goes in to the corner of the barn and “Jabbing their forefingers at him, they drive him towards the barn wall. He claps his hands to his hands to shut out his jeering taunts. In what looks, in adult form, almost like a psychotic frenzy” Also they are being very cruel to Donald and he starts to cry and rock. This is a part of the play of when they are being like adults in that they are playing houses and Donald is swearing.

Dennis Potter has adults playing the children because they have experience of being a child. Also it makes it a bit funny because they look weird when they are doing things that you would only children would normally do. Also using adults make them seem less innocent as they are bigger.

I think that Dennis Potter had a fun and exciting childhood for a few reasons. In the poem he show the children playing and enjoying themselves in there summer holidays and if he wanted childhood to appear sad and unhappy then he would have had them when they weren’t having fun. Also he thinks that they are not as sweet and innocent as they might seem to be.  A reason I think he does this is because they can be harmful towards each other. An example is when they lock Donald in the barn. He also shows that they can let there imaginations run away like when they thought the P.O.W had escaped from the camp down the road and they thought they could catch him even though they thought that he would have had to kill a few guards to get out.