Weymouth Drama Club present Blue Remembered Hills (From Dorset Echo)

Weymouth Drama Club present Blue Remembered Hills

10:00am Thursday 9th February 2012 in Stage By Ruth Meech

HOT on the heels of its sold out success, The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of a Christmas Carol, Weymouth Drama Club’s next production is the Dennis Potter play, Blue Remembered Hills.

Originally written for television, this deceptively simple tale relates to the activities of seven West-Country seven-year-olds, on a summer afternoon during the Second World War.

The children, all played by adult actors, play, fight, fantasise and swagger; their aggressions, fears, hostilities and rivalries showing us a microcosm of child-adult-child interaction.

Easy going Willie (Nick Barron) tags along as burly Peter (Rob Tripp) bullies gentle Raymond (Derrick Leyton-Smith) and is challenged by fair-minded John (Paul Gorsuch).

Plain Audrey (Daphne Payne) is overshadowed by Angela’s (Deborah Walton) prettiness and wreaks her angry frustrations on the boys.

All of them gang up on the terrified Donald Duck, (Richard Barry-Jones) who, abused by his mother and ridiculed by his peers, plays his own dangerous game of pyromania which ends in tragedy.

Blue Remembered Hills is directed by Cherry Bush and performed at The Warehouse Theatre, 7 Hope Street, from February 23 to 25 at 7.45pm.

Tickets are all £8 via the website weymouthdramaclub.co.uk Follow the link for the box office information and future productions.