Assessment of Blood Brothers, by Willy Russell

Assessment of Blood Brothers.

Paper 1 unit 2 'Blood Brouthers'

when we first was told about the play I did not know what it was

about, I had heard of it before but I had never seen or read any of

the play. Then we were told the basic story of the play and the

playwright's history:

· The play was set in the early 1970

· It was written by the playwright Billy Russell

· There have been two different versions of the play scripts that have

been written by Billy Russell, one being the original and the other

being a modern musical version.

· The story is based on two different types of people in different

types of classes and how children cannot see the differences.

· The play is based in Liverpool and at this time (1970's) there was a

mixture of the wealthy and working class people.

· Billy Russell has based the play on his upbringing as he was brought

up in a working class family in Liverpool

· The story is basically about a working class woman who works for a

wealthy woman, the working class woman has 7 children and she finds

out she is pregnant again with twins and her husband has just left her

so the wealthy woman persuades the working class woman to give her one

of the twins. The two twins meet at various points in there life's,

they meet as young children and become friends when young adults, when

they find out that they are twins they both die because the wealthy

women kills them both.

To get us to understand the play we read more into it by taking

scrip's from the musical and the original, and developing them by

using:

Brainstorming

We brainstormed a lot about the play, what we all knew about it. We

also brainstorm about the different themes of the play, money, dreams,

friendship and superstition we then linked them to the play. This

helped me a lot because I did not know the full play and this helped

me understand the themes and how they connected to the play.

Still-image

In my group we created a few still-images to help use decide each

theme and to make use understand it more and were the themes come into

the different parts of the play. We also created a caption to go with

each still-image so that it helps other groups to understand what each

still image is about.

Narration

We used narration at many different times but that was also because