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Another disadvantage would be that the actors would only be able to enter from the left and right hand sides of the stage. There are, however some advantages of a proscenium stage such as, the actors not having to turn their backs on the audience this would contrast to the event of blocking in the…

The play, Blood Brothers written by Willy Russell was set in Liverpool, Liverpool had been home to one of the highest levels of unemployment within the developed world. The play was set in the 1960’s. Russell wrote it at this time because there was low morale and a lot of unemployment. Willy Russell set it…

Some of the main examples of hardship in Blood Brothers are portrayed in Act Ane when we learn that Mrs Johnstone’s husband left, unable to cope with the children, meets another woman. These consequences essentially kick-start what is about to unfold with the twins this decides that she will have to give one of them…

In this coursework I will compare how different environments affect a Childs attitude. To do this, as a director I would want the two actors Mickey and Eddie to act completely different. As we read further into the scene and the boys begin to have a chat about the words they know, we begin to notice…

The play that I am going to discus in this essay is “Blood Brothers” by Willy Russell. I saw this play at Manchester’s Opera house theatre on the 4th May 2005. This play is set in Liverpool over 25 years starting in the mid 60’s and ending in the late 80’s. The play covers lots of…

The use of costumes in the play greatly emphasized the age difference between the scenes. In the first scene Linda is portrayed as young and so even though she acted like a boy the actress still dressed as a girl, in bright frocks. In this the director tries to show she does not really care…

The story-line I constructed, with narration went like this. ‘As the King stood at the edge of his balcony on a bitter cold evening, a conflict below was ending. The sadness on his face grew deeper and deeper as he saw the blanket of bodies, both of his fine men and their enemies lying dead…

As the narrator my outfit is primarily black because the narrator is a constant reminder of what is to come in the play and so by wearing only black I reinforce the message of doom, by wearing all black I also don’t give anything away about my character and so he remains a rather enigmatic…

In our performance of Blood Brothers I play the narrator, a nameless, ageless omen of what is to come. Throughout the play the Narrator is a constant presence used to remind the audience of what will happen to the brothers at the end of the play. When emotions are high and the audience is laughing…

We decided to begin our scene 1 with young Mickey and Eddie meeting for the first time. Mickey says “Gis’ a sweet,” which shows that Mickey is from a lower class as he doesn’t pronunciate his words properly, also it shows Mickey’s childish behaviour as he does not use manners in comaprison to Eddie who…