CURTAIN UP: Members of Congleton Players are preparing to stage their first production of 2012.

Blue Remembered Hills follows a group of children as an idyllic afternoon playing in a forest ends in tragedy.

Along with the usual teasing and high jinx, it's the relentless taunting of one of the boys, whose father is a prisoner of the Japanese, that finally brings a tragic conclusion to their care-free afternoon in 1943.

Blue Remembered Hills is at The Daneside Theatre, Park Road, Congleton, from February 7 to 11 at 7.30pm. Telephone 01260 271095.

The cast are seen, right, with Hilary Warr, as Raymond, at the front.

Picture: Malcolm Hart