Double Bill: Blue Remembered Hills/Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

'Blue Remembered Hills' by Dennis Potter It's a hot summer's day in 1943 and seven children play, laugh, sing and cry somewhere in the woods just before tea-time. In a whirl of constant activity, their lives are brim-full of joy and horror, anxiety and delight. Dennis Potter's affectionate study captures the traumas of childhood beneath the apparently innocent surface. He reminds us that adults are children who have simply substituted subtlety for spontaneity. That rose-tinted nostalgia for the 'blue remembered hills' of our youth is not always justified.

'Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons' by Sam Steiner The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there was a limit? This play imagines a world where we are forced to say less. Sam Steiner tells the story of Bernadette and Oliver, a young couple trying to come to grips with a society that has imposed a limit in which each person is only allowed to use up to 140 words in a single day.