Drama Production of Blood Brothers

Drama Production of Blood Brothers

Preparation.

For our drama production on open day we preformed four scenes from

"Blood Brothers" by Willy Russell. Firstly we discussed which scenes

we would like do to and why. We eventually decided to act out the

opening scenes of the play so that our audience could really get a

feel for what the play was about and get to know the characters better

as they would only be able to get a sample of the character. We then

cut some of the lines and scenes that we didn't think would be

necessary for the message that we where trying to get across. Our main

aim was get across the extreme difference in class and personality

between Mrs. Lyons and Mrs. J, and to show how the Narrator shapes and

controls everything that is going on within the play and also to add a

sinister atmosphere to things.

After we had picked our scenes we tried to decide which characters we

should play. Originally Rachel was going to play the part of Mrs. J

but she was also very keen to play Mrs. Lyons as she had never played

a role like it and I was equally keen to play the Narrator as I had

never played that role either, and Eve was more than happy to play the

part of Mrs. J as she was the best of all three of us at doing a

Liverpool accent so it was very easy to pick our parts.

My character the narrator was particularly difficult to act, as I had

to use a Liverpool accent but still get across the sinister aspects of

the character through voice, movement, gesture and facial expression.

I interpreted my character to be a very controlling character I felt

it was almost as if the character was telling a story of what was

going to happen through his speeches which linked all the scenes.

After doing research on the narrator and reading reviews on the play

in general I found that a lot of people viewed the narrator as no more