Response To Blood Brothers By Willy Russell

Response To Blood Brothers By Willy Russell

Response Phase

The appreciation to the story

Willy Russell wrote a fantastic and well written play called “Blood

Brothers” it shows details of its time and history such as the

government ruled by Margaret Thatcher and the economic crash. The

rough times in Liverpool and the struggle for money.

“Blood Brothers which is set in Liverpool tells a story of twins born

on the same day and died on the same day but separated at birth.

Mrs. Johnstone, a superstitious, loving mother of seven, soon to be

nine has to give up one of her children because of the welfare and

money problems. Though she can’t bear to do it, she gives up one of

her babies to her employee who’s desperate for a baby. For three

decades, she has to see one her children grow up in the hands of

another woman.

Mrs. Lyons has the perfect life. Perfect house, perfect husband and

perfect looks except for one thing she really wants, a child. One day

her employer says she wouldn’t know how to cope with another child and

she had a great idea, she would take one of her twins and she did with

the help of an oath on the bible. Now that she has everything she

wanted she couldn’t be happier. Until her son meets his unknown twin

brother. She soon starts to go mad and orders her son not to see his

good friend anymore but he still does. She then moves to the country

and her mind becomes stable again until she finds out her sons twin

lives right down the street.

What Eddie doesn’t know is that he was given up at birth by his

biological mother and given to what he thinks is his mother. When he

is seven he bumps into a boy called Mickey Johnstone. Eddie thinks

that Mickey is fantastic and everything about him is funny and

exciting and as a result they become best friends and blood brothers

also because they have the same birthday. What Eddie doesn’t know is

that Mickey is his twin brother. As they were tried to be separated by

their parents, it just led them to wanting to each other more.

Separated for a while, they meet again but Eddie is immediately

attracted to Mickey’s fancy Linda. When Mickey goes to prison he

becomes very paranoid about Linda and Eddie, which has dreadful

consequences for both of them.

Mickey, youngest of seven is a wild street-wise kid. Though he hasn’t

had a great life with the fact that he hasn’t got any money and lives