Blood Brothers
Jun 2013 · A&C Black
4.6star
26 reviewsreport
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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.
'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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4.6
26 reviews
romani wijesiri
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4 July 2016
The drama is an intense unfolding of two brothers that result in death. The play is alluring on many levels. Russell embedds class division, superstition and fraternity within dark metaphysical lyrics of music echoed within the unfolding of the drama. Very vivid
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Tia Calvert
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28 November 2015
I loved this book read it in year nine and year ten did all the tests about it get everything right taught me about social classes higher and lower classes which encouraged me to take sociology.
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Louise Riding
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15 August 2017
I absolutely love this book, I studied this book in high school as part of my gcse's and would love to have a copy however agree with another reviewer that it is too over priced.
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About the author
Willy Russell was born in Whiston near Liverpool and left school at fifteen. He went through a succession of jobs before, at the age of twenty, he decided to take 'O' levels and 'A' levels and become a teacher. At about the same time he saw John McGrath's play Unruly Elements at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, and decided he wanted to become a playwright. His plays include: ONE FOR THE ROAD, STAGS AND HENS, EDUCATING RITA, BLOOD BROTHERS and SHIRLEY VALENTINE.
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