For any of you who have a Google Alert set for "Dennis Potter" you'll know that the most regular Potter story is about a new stage production of Blue Remembered Hills. First seen on TV in 1979 the play featured adult actors playing children. As Potter explained, this device was employed to prevent the audience engaging sentimentally with the children, allowing us instead to see the impact - the cruelty - of the events unfolding. The power of the script, the challenge for actors, and the continuing 'bankability' of this play are perhaps the reasons why there seems to always be a production - amateur and professional - on stage somewhere in the UK. Over twenty years after his death so much of Potter's work - this play included - continues to have currency.

This latest production is by The Southwick Players at The Barn Theatre 12th - 15th October. More details here.