Blood Brothers Evaluation Last week we went to the Phoenix Theatre in Leister Square to see Blood Brothers. When we walked into the theatre‚ I noticed that the proscenium arch stage was slanted which put everything on the stage in perspective. There was no live orchestra‚ and all the sound travelled easily throughout the room as it was quite a small theatre. Before the play‚ I had been told that the story was based in Liverpool and I had high expectations as it is one of the longest-running musicals
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In Drama for the live performance we went to see Blood brothers on 6th February 2012. We went as a class to the evening performance which was at the Sunderland Empire. The play was written by Willy Russell‚ from Liverpool in 1981. The play is about the differences in social class between a pair of twins that were separated at birth. Mrs Johnstone gave up one of her twins to Mrs Lyons (who couldn’t have children) Mrs Johnstone is a suspicious woman so Mrs Lyons made her swear on the bible that
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Blood Brothers Theatre Review Word Count:1‚282 Cast: Mrs Johnstone – Vivienne Carlyle Narrator- Phillip Stewart Eddie- Paul Christopher Mickey- Mark Rice-Oxley Mrs Lyons- Abigail Jaye Linda- Louise Clayton Sammy- Michael Southern Donna Marie- Kevin Pallister We visited the Phoenix Theatre on the fourth of October and when we the play started I was drawn to the actual setting of the stage; firstly contrast in the set and how it represented the two side’s class divide. Mrs Johnstone’s
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approach to the typically happy and childlike setting of a circus. As a whole the class responded with quite abstract and solemn pieces‚ I feel the physical theatre reflected the tone of the stimulus well‚ all of the responses tended to lean towards drawing fear from the audience‚ for example instead of limiting the use of space to a typical theatre styled front on stage setting the use of proxemics broadened when groups branched out and included the audiences space during their performance‚ this gave
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Live Theatre Evaluation: Blood Brothers I went to see the production ‘Blood Brothers’ at Wycombe Swan Theatre on the 24th April 2013. Blood Brothers is a musical about twin brothers Mickey (Sean Jones) and Edward (Mark Hutchinson) separated at birth who both find each other again and become blood brothers‚ but find out they’re brothers right before they die. Before I saw the play‚ my expectations were it was going to be boring and just plain acting‚ which I do not like. I was quite surprised
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Drama Essay – Section 1 Our task was to dramatise and perform an extract from the play text ‘Blood Brothers’. The performance had to take into consideration the intentions of the playwright and use an appropriate style. My group chose to perform seven scenes from the play. The beginning scene for our piece is looking at how the lack of money affected the children at that time‚ with children that were complaining they were hungry and that they didn’t have all they wanted and showing that the
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Unit 1 Written Evaluation (1968 words). For our unit one exam‚ we explored the dramatic concepts of justice‚ and whether or not justice could truly be achieved. In order to do so‚ our exam was partitioned into six one hour lessons each containing justice as a focus point‚ using different forms and techniques to explore in a variety of different ways. Firstly‚ we looked at how hot seating could be used to fully explore an emotionally realistic situation. Our main stimulus for this lesson was the
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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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equally but she simply cannot support them financially as a cleaner. Some audiences at the time the play was first performed may not have been so openly sympathetic towards Mrs Johnstone’s situation because the audience who could afford to watch theatre at that time where middle class people and not people like Mrs johnstone Willy Russell has also portrayed as a superstitious
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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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