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 that is fated to end in tragedy.

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 badly.

Blue Remembered Hills is directed by Cherry Bush, who has been a member of Weymouth Drama Club since 1980 and has directed several productions in the past.

She said: “It is a play I have always wanted to direct ever since I first read it. It’s one of Dennis Potter’s least weird plays and is just wonderful to do.

“It’s wonderful to see how he has captured the attitudes and behaviour to children and the cast have taken to it brilliantly and are doing really well.”

Blue Remembered Hills is performed at The Warehouse Theatre, 7 Hope Street, from tomorrow until February 25 at 7.45pm. Tickets are all £8 via the website weymouthdramaclub.co.uk Please note that performances on Friday and Saturday are sold out.