Choose a production you have seen during your course that made a strong emotional impact on the audience (Blood Brothers)

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Q2. Choose a production you have seen during your course that made a strong emotional impact on the audience.

A production I went to see recently was Blood Brothers, performed at the Alhambra theatre. Overall, this was an excellent play, and fully enjoyed by all. The whole play was excellently done, and I thought that the whole of the story made an emotional impact on the audience.

    The story begins with a woman, Mrs Johnstone, who falls pregnant with twins. She cannot afford to keep them both, so she decides to give one away to Mrs. Lyons, the person she works for, and who cannot have children herself. She gives the child away and he grows up in a middle class environment. He is called Eddie. The son she keeps is called Mickey, and he grows up in a working class environment. Mrs. Lyons sacks Mrs. Johnstone, and they agree never to tell their sons the truth. But, as the sons grow up they become friends, and even blood brothers. This is quite ironic, because they are actually real brothers.

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      They keep in contact; Mickey gets married, but is very unhappy. Eddie loves Mickey’s’ wife, Linda, so Mickey plans to kill Eddie. It all ends with a big finale, where both brothers end up dead. Because we are shown the final scene at the beginning, we know that as the play goes along it is building up to a big and sad ending, so we are left wondering all of the way through how its going to end. The story takes us through the two boys growing up so we feel that we really know them and ...

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