Robbert's Blood Brothers

On the 14TH June 2012, we watched Blood Brothers, by Willy Russell, at the Phoenix Theatre. The play ‘Blood Brothers’ is set in 1980s Britain; it deals with numerous themes such as fate, the class system, insanity, superstition and division. The genres of the play are drama, tragedy & comedy-to an extent. Something I found particularly interesting was how the genre of comedy became less and less apparent as the play went on, whereas the genre of tragedy- became more and more apparent as the play went on-the opposite. The play was a musical.

Willy Russell uses the contrast of characters to show the major difference in social class in the play Blood Brothers. Mrs Johnstone was the first character introduced to us in the play. In 'Blood Brothers ' Mrs Johnstone lives in a poor end of Liverpool, struggling to bring up eight children on her own and is forced to give one away to keep the others clothed and fed well enough, whereas Mrs Lyons, whom she works for, lives in a large house, very comfortably in a nice part of Liverpool, she wants children but is unable to have any, even though she is rich, unlike Mrs Johnstone. Mrs Johnstone is portrayed as a stereotypical working class mother. In the introductory song, Russell uses Mrs Johnstone to create this stereotype. "We got

Booker T Washington, photo retrieved from the image archives, index04B4RVIR from the New York Public Library. Booker T. Washington in Public Domain (Free Copy Right Use).

John and Lorraine are best friends. They both go to Franklin High. One day John was thinking, “we need some money” he told Lorraine. So John came up with an idea to get some money. Lorraine didn't wanna go through with it, but John made her. So they came across an old man named Mr. Pignati. They told Mr.Pignati that they are business people selling supplies for the L&J fund. Mr. Pignati told them to come over the next day to colect the 10 dollars. They went over right after school and sat and talked to the old man for a little. He had asked Lorraine and John to go to the zoo with him the next day, and they thought that would be the perfect way to pay him back. They went to the zoo and the Pigman started to buy them everything. Then they meet

The alarms blare and the rain pours as three burglars jump through the broken windows of the bank. Money bags and pistols in hand, they shoot the police as they try to apprehend them. The police return fire, but are unsuccessful in stopping them. The burglars sprint to their getaway car and speed off, police chasing them. The burglars and police enter a firefight and shoot at each other nonstop. The police chase the burglars to a dead end, knowing the burglars cannot escape. They get out of their cars, flashlights and pistols in hand, and yell “Freeze!” They walk forward and stare in disbelief. The only thing in front of them is a dead end alleyway. The burglars had simply vanished!

A man goes in to rob the bank, and the bank teller gives the man a lot of the money.

Unlike any other days, a Piggy Dax and his wife-Pigga who have been working as the fortune tellers for passers-by in the mall through lies for money. One day, there home was being robbed by the Foxy gang while were telling lies to a guest. Ten minutes after the rob, the neighbors-Mr.Sheep, Mrs.Goat, and Missy Bird contacted the Eagle Police Department and so they came to Piggy Dax’s house and took a report from the witnesses. On the other hand, one of the officers tried to find their work place when Missy Bird told the officer that they’re the fortune tellers at the Penniless Mall. The officer came, and approached Pigga Dax and his wife to tell them about the problem at their house. The Eagle officer told the married couple that their house

One Afternoon, humid and hot, a black haired boy, Jack was walking to his wonderful and amazing house. A few very boring minutes had past and Jack had noticed a sign that stated, ”Get you hoverboard right now only for one hundred ninety two dollars”. But,now the shop was located right spot in the middle of an alley way.

Suddenly he found a road but this was a very big and busy road as a result it would almost be impossible to get across.But the boy being foolish he ran across the road he was barely missed by a car so he continued through his town then came a man that offered to give him good luck for $50 he gave the man his money and then

One knock changed a life. There was a black car parked outside, a man with a black suit came out and right then history was made they knocked the parents out and dragged them into the car and finally the parents woke up and said “ Hey where are we?” the kidnappers and the group of men with them said “get out of the car.” So the parents did, the leader of the kidnapping said “put the baby down and nobody gets hurt.” The mother said okay… and ran with the baby the father shot the “robber”, and the “robber” was running after the baby the other hit men were taking the father and, mother. They both screamed and ran into two police officers.

Jimmy had saved a life by cracking open a safe but also risked what he feared of. Annabell’s (niece) had locked herself in the safe that her grandfather just bought. So Jimmy opened the safe and saved the little girl, but the cop was watching him and was going to arrest jimmy but then the cop saw that jimmy had changed and began to be good.

In a town name Aynor there lived who in every aspect of his life hated violence, but he hated guns even more. One day he went to the store and an on his way back to his car a man came up to him and said “give me the money and you won't get hurt old man.” Well wright when he gave him the money a man that also came out of the store. Saw what was happening and pulled out his personal defense weapon and slowly approach the man. When he was close enough he told the man to give back to money and get on the ground. Well knowing the man had a gun the would be mugger gave back the money and got on the ground. The man with the weapon held it on the mugger and told the man to call the cops. After the cops showed up and took the mugger away. The two talk for a minute and went their separate ways. Than after the man who could not defend himself went to the nearest arms supply store and ask how he could get a concealed weapons

This man didn’t really have name. No one ever really cared about him. They lacked care about him so much that he even forgot his own name. This man was leaning up against the building and was in fetal position trying to stay warm and Garrett was afraid to wake him up, but he was curious more than someone being told not to touch a red button. So, he decided to wake up this man and of course the man was freaking out by being startled. Garrett step back and let him freakout for a little bit while he was trying to show him that he had to offer some bread. The man looked at him and gave him this weird look and was very cautious to take the bread because he was afraid that he was gonna tease him and run off with it. Garrett picked up on this and laid it down for him and waited for the man to come take it. The man proceeds with caution as Garrett is trying to tell him that it’s okay. The man takes it and eats it slowly. Garrett speaks up and asks, “Do you anything about this building? Or even the door?” The man has a raspy voice and says “Yes, yes I do. Unfortunately, this door is what made me what I am today.” Garrett turns his head like a curious Beagle. With a low voice “It may not seem like it, but I use to be the owner of this bank” Garrett is now really in shock because he thinks to himself “That’s impossible, this building has been here for almost one hundred years”. So he asks the man, “How?”. The man is now starting to get more and more enraged. “I owned it from start to end, I was here when this town flourished to what it is now.” Garrett asks the man “How if you….should've been dead?” “If you just hold onto what you are truly passionate about, you can live

He pulled a 20 dollar bill out of his pocket “Excuse me, now that I am Mr. Sunshine I am giving you this to go buy yourself some donuts.” The sherriff looked at him with a the weirdest look ever then at once took the bill and walked away. He went and chattered with the other police officer. The Terrorizer went to jail for a max sentence and spent most of his life in prison. When he got out he was 60 years old. He went back to his house, which he had paid for while he was in jail, and walked inside. On the counter he sees an empty coffee pot. He makes a new batch of coffee and sits down on his chair, looking at the city below thinking, ‘What crime will I stop

On one delightful day there was a monkey named George and a fox named Swiper. Swiper was very sneaky and always took things from other animals, meanwhile George the monkey was caring and friendly. On that delightful day the fox went to the monkey and asked if he can have some bananas. George the monkey told swiper the fox “NO” because he needs to learn not to steal.