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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Mickey charges into the council offices where at the time Edward is delivering his speech. Mickey has the main role in the final scene; he has Edward at gunpoint‚ as is not at all sure what he is actually doing. Numerous factors contributed to the success of the production‚ this will include‚ stage set‚ lighting‚ characterisation‚ performance‚ general theatre‚ the mass recession on the 1970s. ’Mickey! Don’t shoot Eddie. He’s your brother’ The final scene of Blood Brothers by Willy Russell is
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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 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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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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"Havin’ babies‚it’s like clockwork to me" Mrs Johnson is in her 20s but already has 7 children‚ shows she is maternal "Oh God‚Mrs Lyons‚never put new shoes on a table...You never know what’ll happen" Mrs Johnson is a very supersticious character‚ important in the novel as Mrs Lyons preys on this trait. This also shows she is not very well educated. "There’s shoes upon the table an’ a joker in the pack" The narrator also emphasis’ the superstitious side of Mrs Johnson. "They say I’m
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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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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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The play we have been working on ‘Blood Brothers’. The plot of the story is about a pair of twins who got separated at birth‚ but their backgrounds in life take them to different paths which lead to opposite social lives. The play had a first run at West End in London in 1983 and it is written by Willy Russell. The play was set in Liverpool in 1962 and continues for around 20 years. The main theme in the play is the different classes i.e. Mrs Johnstone and Mickey being from a not so rich background
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