‘Blood brothers’ - Review of Theatre Performance

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Review of a live theatre performance

On Monday 9th July 2001 I went with a group of 9, 10, and ex 11 students to see ‘Blood brothers’ at the theatre royal in Brighton.

Blood brothers is about a pair of twins who are split up at birth, because their natural mother cannot afford to keep both of them and her already large family. When the twins Eddie (the given away twin) and Mickey (the kept twin) are nearly 8 years old they meet each other, and much to the dismay of Linda (Mickey's female best friend) and both of their mothers, who forbid them from seeing each other anymore. Eddies mother is infact so paranoid of her son finding out anything about his past that she moves away with him to the countryside, but unknowingly so do Mickey and his family.

Due to the boys attending separate schools, they do not meet again until they are 14 years old. Once they meet they become best friends again and hangout as a threesome with Mickey's lifelong friend and eventual sweetheart and wife Linda. By the age of 18 when Eddie is in university and Mickey is struggling to afford anything (especially with Linda having a baby on the way) his older brother Sammy talks him into a bank robbery which goes terribly wrong and sends Mickey to jail for 7 years.

When he gets out he is a changed man. What was once a chirpy, lovable Liverpudlian is now a withdrawn, reclusive sedative addict. Linda feels that things are not working with Mickey, but she do does not mean to have an affair with Eddie. When Mickey finds out about it (told by Eddie's own mother) he flips out and goes to Eddie's office where he holds him at gunpoint. Mickey's mother hurries to the office and begs Mickey not to shoot Eddie, as he is his twin brother. Shocked and upset by this disturbing news. Mickey kills both himself and his brother.

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The blood brothers set was really quite realistic, to begin with (during the first half) it was a street of semi-detached houses which looked very real and the background changed from day to night which added atmosphere to the show. When the scene needed to change to an indoors scene, a decorated wall would be lowered from the ceiling and a table (to show the dining room), a sofa (to show the living room), or a crib (to show the nursery) would be pushed onstage dependant on what room it needed to show the cast were in. This may seem ...

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