Willy Russell
Paperback | Pages: 112 pages Rating: 3.9 | 3005 Users | 166 Reviews
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| Title | : | Blood Brothers |
| Author | : | Willy Russell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 112 pages |
| Published | : | May 10th 2001 by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Classics. Academic. School. Drama. Theatre |
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A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.
'Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate and destiny … it carries one along with it in almost unreserved enjoyment" Guardian
One of the longest-running and most successful ever West End musicals, Blood Brothers premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 1983.
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| Original Title: | Blood Brothers (Methuen Modern Plays) |
| ISBN: | 0413767701 (ISBN13: 9780413767707) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Liverpool, England,1983(United Kingdom) |
Rating Containing Books Blood Brothers
Ratings: 3.9 From 3005 Users | 166 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books Blood Brothers
Will forever be my favourite West End musical.Fantabulous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my all time favorite plays and theatre performances. We did it in 2008. Sad day when the show ended. Such good music.
Willy Russel commented himself on the episodic structure of Act 2 compared to Act 1 which, for me, combined with the choice of language in the final scene made for a less powerful ending. In the student edition of Blood Brothers the editor includes the final scene from the initial in-school version that Russel wrote. The key difference between the final scene in the text and in its intial form is that Mikey elaborates on his discontent and on his helplessness to change his circumstances. Overall
I finished this book the day i borrowed it from the school library. Well I thought this book was very interesting and not suitable for children. It had a lot of swear words in the book and a lot of mean languages. This is actually a play with scripts in the format of a book. I don't know whether it is based on a true story or not, but I hope it isn't because I really don't want someone to actually die so tragically...See more...
I was in a bit of a dilemma here - there are clear faults in the text as a piece of (musical) drama and I might be jaundiced by having now seen in performed three times...yet, yet...every time I teach this to a class they seem to be really engaged by it. So I salute you, Blood Brothers as a GCSE text! Thank you to W.R!
I went to see this last Saturday with the kids and we thought it was AMAZ-ING! I was pleasantly surprised to find it on the schools reading list as it is full of language and sexual innuendos. But it fits with the time period and location.I am pleased that this was the script with songs too and that the live show sticks completely to the script. Watching or reading it still bought tears to my eyes.A absolutely brilliant book!#bloodbrothers #willyrussell #theare #script #goodreads #favouritebooks
Love this! Studied it for GCSE and really enjoyed it! So many themes and well developed characters as well as great songs
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