A review on Blood Brothers.

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Drama coursework                                                                    3/12/2003

A review on Blood Brothers

By Aasha Kotecha

Blood Brothers the musical, the book, the music and lyrics were all written by Willy Russell. The first performance was in the Albery Theatre in 1988.

“So did y’hear the story of the Johnston twins?” this is how it goes…………..

Mrs Johnston is a working mother who can barely afford to feed her seven children, and is distraught when she discovers she is expecting twins. Mrs Johnston receives a proposition from her upper class employer; Mrs Lyons, who offers to buy one of the twins and pass them off as her own, to her husband who is away? As Mrs Johnston is short of money she reluctantly accepts the offer and when the babies are born Mrs Lyons picks her twin and brings him up as her own. As time passes on, Mrs Lyons becomes over possessive of the baby and sacks Mrs Johnston, to keep the biological mother from getting emotionally attached to him.

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Years pass and the two mothers try very hard to keep the twins from discovering the truth, inevitably they meet and develop a strong friendship, they soon become ‘blood brothers’. Mrs Lyons finds out and is sent into hysteria. This leads her to take her son Eddie to live in the countryside to get away from the truth. However, she is unaware that Mrs Johnston is re-housed to live in the same area with the other twin her son Mickey. The twins meet again this time there is a third person involved, Linda, who is Mickey’s friend.

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