Blood Brothers – Anthony Costa Essay
In this essay I am going to write about one of the performers that I thought was particularly successful in making the production successful. Anthony Costa played Mickey in the play and I thought he was an extremely strong actor with some good emotional qualities. This essay will show how Anthony Costa contributed to making the play a great achievement.
Anthony Costa played Mickey in the production, a small Liverpudlian boy from a lower class family. The first time we see Mickey is when he is only a seven year old. Here Anthony Costa began using childish antics such as wiping his nose on his sleeves, being constantly energetic and playing typical games to show the audience he was playing a young boy. He also sat with his legs wide open in the middle of the street to show he had no care of what people think of him. When this was accompanied by the far too big hand me down clothes from his brother, Anthony Costa really looked and acted like a young boy. Throughout the first few scenes of the play he continued to do so by again playing games with his neighbours and friends and being generally cheeky to elders. The scene I thought all of these qualities were brought out successfully in was when Mickey and Linda had just met Eddie and were out playing with a pellet gun. Anthony Costa had an astonished and amazed expression upon his face when himself and Eddie kept missing the targets yet Linda could shoot the target from between her legs.
