Evaluation of Blood Brothers, by Willy Russell Essay -- Blood Brothers

Evaluation of rake Brothers On 3rd March I went to the Phoenix Theatre in West End to watch aproduction of one of Willy Russells greatest moulds, Blood Brothers. Blood Brothers is set in Liverpool in the early eighties. The play follows the life of two main de nonations Eddie Lyons and Mickey Johnstone, who are twins schism at birth. In Blood Brothers the characters fall into two stereo natural groups the works family line and the upper-middle kin. The reason the play focuses on the difference in grad is that the play was written in the reign of Margaret Thatcher who told the people of Great Britain to get wind after themselves, and that there is no such thing as asociety. Willy Russell was against this way of thinking and wrote plays opposing it. Mrs. Johnstone is a typical working class woman who lives on her own and spends more money than she earns.Mrs. Lyons is a typical upper-middle class woman, married and doesntwant her possessions being contaminated by the porno of the world, theworking class. Mickey, the twin that was kept by Mrs. Johnstone, is anarchetypical lower class boy, dirty ripped clothes and a mouth like asewer. Edward save is a stereotypical upper-middle class boy,smart, clean uniform that uses correct face grammar. These are thefour main characters, although there is one more character that playsa significant role in the musical, the narrator. The job of thenarrator in this play is to set the scene and bring aspects ofsuperstition into the play. He does this by his songs and hisdialogue. It seems slightly ironic that although the Johnstone familyis very poor they start off cheerfully, compared to the Lyons who arerich and never seem happy. This mak... ...projection ofthe tree on the floor. At the tensest moments the lights dip and aspotlight was put on the narrator to add spectacular tension. The actors worked very well, the fact that adult actors playedchildren characters was barely noticeable. This is probably overdue to th ecostumes that the actors wore. The actors that played the two boys Ifeel were especially good because not only did they have to lookdifferent ages throughout the play solely they acted the ages as well. Ifeel this musical as a hale was excellent, there was very good usesof the dramatic techniques and staging techniques used by the Phoenixtheatre.Overall I extoled the play and would recommend it to people that enjoyplays where they dont have to follow on every spot in order tounderstand it. The way the narrator ties everything together makes the score line make sense.