Blood Brothers

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Blood Brothers

Response

For our response part of the coursework, we were asked to evaluate and describe three pieces of drama that we had done based on the Blood Brothers class work.

In this drama we had been asked to do a symbolic movement or a symbolic statue, to show either social class, divided wealth or prejudice. We were asked to give our symbolic movement or statue a title.

In our group we did a symbolic statue based on divided wealth. The title of our symbolic statue was “They were divided by wealth, but came together by destiny”, we had this title because it was related to Blood Brothers the play itself. The title of our symbolic statue described how Eddie and Mickey had been separated due to wealth and money problems, but however they came back together by chance and destiny.

 In our symbolic statue, we had three people standing to the right, they symbolized the upper class. Then we had a gap in the middle and then three people kneeling/begging on the other side of the gap, they symbolized the lower class. The proxemics in the middle of the stage, separating the upper and lower class showed the boundary between the upper and lower class and it also showed the boundary between their wealth. In our symbolic statue, we didn’t have any middle class, which showed that there was no way for you to get from lower class to upper class, it showed that you could only be born into your classes and you stayed in that class for the rest of your life.

We had a use of level to show that the upper class were stronger than the lower class as the upper class were standing above the lower class. Because the upper class were standing above the lower class and because the lower class were kneeling, firstly it symbolized that the upper class were stronger than the lower class and secondly it showed that the upper class had a higher authority in society compared to the lower class. The upper class had contempt facial expressions and one of them had their back turned away from the lower class, this showed that she thought of the lower class as disgusting creatures that one ought to keep away from and that they shouldn’t belong to society at all. The other two people symbolizing the upper class were pointing at the lower class and looking disgusted and horrified, which showed that they didn’t consider the lower class to be any better than zoo animals and they were disgusted by the sught of them. The poor on the other hand were kneeling, one was shivering as if cold or frightened and from his facial expression you could see fear and terror, perhaps both from the fear of dying or from the upper class. One of the lower class was holding up a 10p coin as is it was a trophy that he had won and from his facial expression, which was full of wonder and amazement, you could tell that he had never seen a 10p coin which would cause the audience to wonder how poor he really was. The last of the lower class was just kneeling on the ground like a statue and his facial expression was completely blank, which indicated that one he had given up on life and secondly that he was on drugs.

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In this drama we were asked to recreate the scene with Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons, where they make the pact on the bible. We were asked to show their thoughts.

In our group we started our drama with the ending, like with the original Blood Brothers play. We started with a freeze frame showing Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons, with both their hands on the bible as if making the pact. Then the narrator walks forward and says “how quickly and idea planted can, take root and grow into a ...

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