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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Mrs Johnson being superstisious‚ as she does not want her to tell the truth about the twins‚ threatening her indirectly. "Gis a sweet" Mickey using slang‚ not polite‚ when asking Edward for a sweet. "Yes‚ of course.Take as many as you want" Edward 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
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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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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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because it is making us think that we should be grateful for what we have and not to be greedy because normally teens are spoilt. The tone of voice I imagine reading this in is a nice emotional calm voice because it is an emotional poem. It talks about how Timothy Winters is poor and how he can’t afford anything and how he gets cold. “And through his braces
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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 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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How does Willy Russell use dramatic techniques to portray serious social issues in the play Blood Brothers At the start of the play The Blood Brothers the Narrator gives us a sneak peak of the end of this musical/gives us a prologue and because of the poetic sentence saying‚ ‘Till the day they died‚ when a mother cried‚ my own two sons lay slain’ it augments the fact that this play is going to end in a tragedy‚ that it is most likely that someone‚ presumably one of the main characters is going
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How does Russell present Edward in ‘Blood Brothers’? During the play‚ Russell presents Edward in many different ways throughout his life‚ showing the contrasts that he shares with Mickey – even though they are carbon copies of one another. There are many different points in ‘Blood Brothers’ where Edward is presented in a different way‚ from his childhood‚ to school life and then when he is reunited with Mickey after university. Russell does present him as ‘soft’‚ especially in his child hood‚ although
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