Blood Brothers Overview

Blood Brothers Overview

Blood Brothers tells the story of twin bothers who are born into a

large working class family from Liverpool called the Johnston's. Due

to financial problems and threats from the welfare to take the family

into care, Mrs Johnston decides to have one of the twins adopted into

the Lyons family, (a rich upper-class family who are unable to have

children). The play looks at the differences and conflicts in their

upbringings, their relationships to each other and those around them,

and their real and adopted mothers.

The essential way we went about working on it was this. We would start

off by reading the passage we would be working on at the beginning of

the lesson. We would then talk with our teacher about how we should go

about performing the piece and what kind of techniques we should use

to make our pieces real. We would then go off into our groups and

create and practice our scene and then perform it, often using many

improvising during the process.

We did a lot of preparatory lessons leading up to our main scene that

we would work on. These are the lessons we did:

* Liverpudlian Accent - For this lesson we started off by reading

the first 2 chapters of the play. We then as a class discussed

what we thought the stereotypical accents would be for each of the

two classes of family. The main focus of this task was to teach us

how to use the accents in our later lessons and distinguish the

two accents from each other.

* Learn Lines - In this lesson we went and practiced lines from the

play of a scene in groups of two or three. We then performed our

scenes to the rest...

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... opportunity to broaden my ideas and get to know other people, as I do

not get on with some of the people in me group.

To finish I would like to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed doing the

Blood Brothers subject and I have learnt a lot from the experience and

learned many new techniques. I also think that if I was in Mrs

Johnston's shoes I would also have given away my child as I would

rather give one away, knowing that its going to a good home and get to

keep the rest than keep them all and then lose them all. I think the

play teaches us that we have to respect other people no matter what

class of living they come from and always try to listen to and stick

with your friends. I have much to improve on and I think the play is a

very good one, and I wished I had of seen it when the drama groups saw

the play in London.