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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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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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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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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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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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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Alisa Nguyen-Le Theatrical Review: Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is a funny‚ witty‚ topsy tuvy show with tons of twists and turns that surprise the audience. As a whole‚ the production was very enjoyable and entertaining. Throughout the play‚ I was leaning forward in my seat with anticipation. The comedy was very clever and I couldn’t help but to chuckle during the whole production. The cast did very well‚ as they stayed in character throughout the whole show
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‘Blood Brothers’ Documentary Response Introduction This documentary response encompasses the assessed work on the chosen stimulus‚ ‘Blood Brothers’. The text provoked different responses displayed varyingly across the group. Underlying themes which arose were social background‚ the individual within society‚ friendship and education‚ and growing up and money. Essentially‚ I have learnt that the play is an exploration of the above themes surrounding an embedded theme of love and the risks and
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I picked this passage/quote because what is a family if siblings don’t fight. Jude said this to Noah after he blurted out that she was jealous. Jude was jealous‚ but not because Noah and their mother had a stronger bond. Because her mother didn’t look at her drawings. She only saw Noah’s and liked them a lot. This novel worked so well with my theme with the twins fighting the parents not knowing what’s going on but hurting the situation more because they don’t love each other like they use to. Siblings
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