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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On the 11th November 2016 I went to see a play called Blood Brothers at Mayflower Theatre‚ it was written by Willy Russell.It was set in the 1960s in Liverpool. It was performed by the Professional Play Group and directed by Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright. The play was a musical which meant during the performance there was songs suited to a specific moment within the play. Before attending the performance I already knew the story line however I was intrigued as to how they could perform the play themselves
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individualize themselves as they become older. The story was about brothers who were like any other kid very destructive and playful‚ however they went through some hard events in their life that not many have gone through. They lost their sisters from a disease‚ they got involved with controlled substances‚ they lost their bond with one another‚ and lost their father‚ however these problem transformed them from boys to man. This story showed the brother lives in chronological order‚ how they grew up from little
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Dancing is nearly always associated with self expression; sometimes dancing reflects love‚ sometimes happiness‚ and sometimes the dance can express the sadness you are feeling. This essay will examine how the dancing in ‘Blood Brothers’ can symbolise hope and signifies security and pleasure that never lasts. Dancing is the first thing we hear Mrs Johnstone sing about‚ as she describes he life before she got married‚ when she first met her husband whilst out dancing. She then mentions dancing yet
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Look closely at how Mickey and Edward behave here. What does it reveal about them at this point in the play? Mickey and Edward are first introduced in Act One as seven year old children. This is a key scene in the play as it is the first time the audience witness the twins and their behaviour together since their separation at birth. During this is scene many contrasts are created and displayed by the two children‚ mainly through the characters speech and mannerisms. Upon their introduction
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Blood Brothers tells the story of the Johnstone twins‚ Mickey and Eddie‚ brothers separated at birth who reunite and become friends in their childhood‚ unaware of their relation to each other or of the consequences their relationship will bring about. At the start of the musical‚ working class woman Mrs. Johnstone learns she is pregnant with twins and confides in her employer Mrs. Lyons about her fears that she will not be able to support both children. Mrs. Lyons‚ a wealthy and deceitful woman
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Blood Brothers Essay The past few weeks I have been reading the play Blood Brothers written by Willy Russell. It is the story of twin brothers who are separated at birth. Wealthy Mrs Lyons‚ who is not able to have her own children‚ blackmails her maid‚ Mrs Johnstone into giving her one of her new born twins. Mrs Lyons says all Miss Johnston’s other children well benefit‚ as the Johnston’s have little money. The women agree that it should be their secret and no one else will ever know the truth
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How does Willy Russell show the differences between Mickey and Eddie in Blood Brothers? Blood Brothers’ is the tragic story of twin brothers who were separated at birth‚ who both lead opposite lives and shows how class can affect upbringing. Mickey lives in poverty with his biological mother Mrs Johnstone who is attempting but failing to control her infinite number of children. Eddie is given to Mrs Lyons‚ a wealthy woman who is in fact Mrs Johnstone’s boss‚ as Mrs Johnstone realises that she
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The original scene was an extract from Willy Russel’s play Blood Brothers. We recreated the song “mad women”‚ this song was sang by the children who were describing Mrs Lyons. The song suggests that Mrs Lyons had “gone mad” the line “high up on a hill” almost shows as if Mrs Lyons is some sort of witch We decided to incorporate the medium of props into our exploration. We used red ribbons to act as a multifunctional prop as well as the buckets and the bamboo sticks. In our performance we decided
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