Theatre Visit– Blood Brothers.
We visited a London Theatre, ‘The Phoenix Theatre’ on the 13th March 2003 and saw ‘Blood Brothers’.
The play was about a single parent who had many children, and then became pregnant again with twins. Her rich employer wanted children but could not have any herself; she asked if she could have one of the babies in secret and tell people the baby was her own. Reluctantly, the pregnant mother agrees to give up one of her babies as she could not afford the unborn child, and also under the conditions that she could see the child grow up everyday when she came to her work to clean the home. As the children grow up, one remains poor in his family, and the other raised by a much higher class family is raised in a posh environment with good manners and behaviour- the other the complete opposite. When they become around 7 years old they cross each other in the neighbourhood, and not knowing that they are true brothers, they become close friends. A friendship which becomes so close, they decide to perform the classic ritual of cutting their hands, exchanging blood and becoming ‘Blood Brothers’. The two boys grow up as best friends, while only the mothers know the truth. Eventually the richer mother decides to move away so her son has no contact with his birth mother and discovers the truth. Soon after the poorer mother is given a new home by the council, and ends up moving to the same neighbourhood as the rich family. The teens all grow up, and the poorer brother marries and becomes a father himself. While the richer sons goes off to university for further education. Eventually, the poorer son takes a few wrong turns and becomes involved in illegal business; in the process both brothers get shot, Just before they die the mother confesses though it is too late.
