Blood Brothers
From: Tuesday, 17th January 2012
To: Saturday, 21 January 2012
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Synopsis
Musical melodrama set in Liverpool about twins separated at birth and the effects on their personalities as they grow up of 'nature' and 'nurture'. A poor family, already with kids, is blessed with twins, but they can't cope. The mother cleans at a `posh' house where they are desparate to have kids but can't and a deal is struck which no-one must know about. Despite the efforts of the new family the boys paths cross time and time again as they grow and one becomes `bad' while the other is 'good'. Eventually they clash with tragic consequences. The musical is un-usual in having a "narrator" who helps to move the plot along.
Our Review:
Simon Cole - 17 January 2012
“Did you ever here the story of the Johnstone twins?” This deceptively casual question, together with two lines of the heart wrenching “Tell Me It’s Not True” sung by a grieving mother over the dead bodies of her two beloved boys, provides the curtain raiser to Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers, a simple, but epic story of twins, torn apart at birth, and brought up at opposite ends of the social spectrum, but who’s destinies are irrevocably linked. The audience is left in no doubt of the emotional rollercoaster on which they are about to embark.
Russell’s razor-sharp and achingly well observed verse (as in the “Just Fifteen” summer sequence, and the “Girl Inside the Woman” introduction to “Light Romance”) is made all the more poignant as the audience already knows how the story of the boy’s lives, pre-determined by their status in society, is to end, helplessly watching the sequence of events that inevitable leads to that tragic conclusion.
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Latest User Review
Ann Bull - 2 February 2012:
This fabulous show cannot fail with the amazing Maureen Nolan giving it every emotion . The cast are superb , one to watch over and over again .Love it !...
Cast
Maureen Nolan (Mrs Johnstone)
Craig Price (narrator)
Marti Pellow (narrator - Darlington)
Sean Jones (|Mickey)
Matthew Collyer (Eddie)
Tracey Spencer (Mrs Lyons)
Tim Churchill (Mr Lyons)
Kelly Anne Gower (Linda)
Danny Taylor (Sammy)
Graham Martin (Policeman/Teacher)
Tori Hargreaves (Donna Marie/Miss Jones)
Graeme Kinniburgh (Bus Conductor)
Jonathan Vickers (Perkins)
Karl Greenwood (Neighbour)
Marc Mulcahey (Neighbour)
Creative
Willy Russell (Author)
Bill Kenwright (Producer)
Bob Tomson (Director)
Rod Edwards (music) (Director)
Andy Walmsley (Design)
Nick Richings (Lighting)
Rod Edwards (music) (Director)
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