Review of a live piece of theatre - Blood Brothers

Set lighting costume and sound:  At The beginning the play was staged they shined a red light on the gauze when they shined a the red light from behind We could see the Liverpool skyline a gob shone waves on to the gauze the effect of this was that he stayed was a sad place a scary place to be the river of blood but the river is not really all blood it’s the death of the Johnston Twins. The Atmosphere it created was like death it made you feel sad and interested on what was going to happen.

The sounds that they made was a lot effective like when Sammy wanted him do the robbery and when they ran away the music then was very effective. The music was effective when there was sad thing going on like when the was depressed the music was put on at the right time. The narrator always dressed in black the black that the narrator dressed represented the death of the Johnston twins. The audience could see him but the characters on stage could not see him and he could moved all around the stage, also explained each scene when it finished. The narrator made the part more interacting and understanding by explaining what has happening.

The conclusion: I think the play was very good because you could understand everything and the director made it funny at the beginning, but he made it sad at the end of the play. He did this to show that they where very happy at the beginning and sad at the end. I like the narrator when he explained each scene of the play because you understand every scene and he told you what happened. The body language that they used could state how old they were. Some part of the play made you feel sad because you felt sorry for the characters on the stage. I think that everybody had a fault for the death of the Johnston twins because at the beginning Mrs Johnston gave one of her twins to a middle class lady, which is known as Mrs Lyons. Mrs Lyons frosted Mrs Johnston to give one of her twins away. She told her that she is not able to look after him and told her if she gave her baby to her she would see him every day, but after she told her husband that she did not work well and told her to leave. She gave her money Mrs Johnston said that she is going to take her baby.  Mrs Lyons threaded that the social services would take her other children away so mrs Lyons said am the bible she use religious to keep the Baby.  The working class twin Mickey brother Sammy got Mickey help him do a crime and he got 7 years in prison and he was on the Depression pills.  I think Willy Russell wrote this play so that people can care about each other and  never get separated.  

The volunteer that went in went in role for the middle class mother her body langue was sitting up straight and her legs crossed the tone of voice that she would use would be a bit posh she just wanted more things and she was upset about stupid thing that are not important. This coveys that the middle class women was happy with her life the working class women had problems that where important In are groups we created a prepared improvisation showing members of the working class house hold the peace started with two older children an arm wrestle and the mum trying to stop them this show that they don’t care and the younger boy was saying come on lets go want and he was pulling her hand because he didn’t

Wait when his mum told him then when they went the bother boys put in a video they were watching it when there mum came back and they stated to panic and they broke the TV when they where trying to get it out one of the boys was saying lets watch TV and the small boy had hurt his leg and the other boys where hitting his leg and he was crying then the mum got angry with the oldest boy and the said he was going to lave but the mum did not care this showed that she had enough of them and he didn’t leave.