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    I went to see the play Blood Brothers‚ on February the 12th at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham‚ which was directed by Billy Kenright. The play was originally written by Willy Russell in 1983‚ Blood Brothers follows the lives of two twins Eddie and Mickey. The Johnstone twins are born into a very large‚ working class family‚ who struggle to get by with their mother Mrs Johnstone‚ who is a cleaner for a middle class woman Mrs Lyons. Mrs Lyons’ husband is away on work‚ but they both wish they could

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    Blood Brothers is a very intricately crafted play‚ full of techniques and themes that create a complex and brilliant piece. During Blood brothers there are a variety of relationships between different characters. These relationships are portrayed using many different techniques‚ which are subtle and clever. For example‚ the relationship between Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons is shown to be quite distant‚ which is very realistic of the women’s different status at that time. This is presented through

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    Willy Russell uses the contrast of characters to show the major difference in social class in the play Blood Brothers. Mrs Johnstone was the first character introduced to us in the play. In ’Blood Brothers ’ Mrs Johnstone lives in a poor end of Liverpool‚ struggling to bring up eight children on her own and is forced to give one away to keep the others clothed and fed well enough‚ whereas Mrs Lyons‚ whom she works for‚ lives in a large house‚ very comfortably in a nice part of Liverpool‚ she wants

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    Blood Brothers Blood Brothers is set in Liverpool‚ and was written in 1983 by Willy Russell. The musical is set in Liverpool. The 1980’s started with probably Liverpool’s lowest point of unemployment and because of that riots broke out in Toxteth along with other UK cities.  The area saw huge job losses and the population halved as people left Liverpool to seek work elsewhere. The UK’s view of Liverpool also suffered badly through the way they were

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    showing his generous side‚ and also he is trying to make friends as he has been lonely because Mrs Lyons is so over protective. "See‚this means that we’re blood brothers‚an’ that we always have to stand by each other.” Mickey and Edward are now close friends and this is parallel to their separation as they now consider eachother brothers anyway. "There’s no such thing as a bogey man.It’s a-a superstition" Mrs Lyons‚ talking to Edward‚ sees the same trait in her son as his real mother‚ and

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    Blood Brother Performance Essay On the 14TH June 2012‚ we watched Blood Brothers‚ by Willy Russell‚ at the Phoenix Theatre. The play ‘Blood Brothers’ is set in 1980s Britain; it deals with numerous themes such as fate‚ the class system‚ insanity‚ superstition and division. The genres of the play are drama‚ tragedy & comedy-to an extent. Something I found particularly interesting was how the genre of comedy became less and less apparent as the play went on‚ whereas the genre of tragedy- became

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    Examine how Russell portrays the characters Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons In the musical.Look closely at what they say and how they say it and refer closely to the text in your answer. I think Willy Russell has portrayed Mrs Johnstone as a loving and caring person knowing instinctively what’s right and what’s wrong. She always involves her family when she thinks of life and just thinks of simple things as luxury. This shows she is quite poor. Although she doesn’t have much money still she tries

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    The play ‘Blood Brothers’ is written by the playwright Willy Russell‚ who explores the advantages and disadvantages of growing up in a working-class or a first-class environment in mid 20th century Liverpool. Russell uses his experiences‚ growing up in working-class Liverpool‚ to cover how the class system determined your life chances. This is explored through issues of injustice and socialism throughout. ‘Blood Brothers’ is not a typical musical‚ being of a naturalistic style‚ but‚ as Willy Russell

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    Blood Brothers is a popular play by Willy Russell. It was written and first performed in 1981. The play tells of twin brothers‚ separated at birth‚ with one kept in a low-class family and the other is adopted into a wealthy family. The characters of Mrs Johnston and Mrs Lyons‚ the mothers‚ are total opposites. Mrs Johnston is a struggling‚ single mother of seven‚ with another two on the way‚ whereas Mrs Lyons is a privileged‚ yet childless‚ married woman. The opening scene started with a funeral

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    Timothy Winters What effect does this poem have on you‚ the reader? The effect this poem has on me is it makes me realise how lucky and grateful I am because I can afford things and have a lovely life style. However Timothy Winters has the opposite‚ he is very poor and can’t really afford anything. The poem is based on a little boy called Timothy Winters who is very poor and can’t afford much. The statement for the poem is that Timothy Winters is a poor little boy who cannot afford much and

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