Blood Brothers Theatre Analysis

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Blood Brothers Theatre Review On Wednesday 28th September my GCSE Drama class went to see a performance of Willy Russell’s play Blood Brothers. It was a performance by the West End touring Theatre Company. The venue holds up to 600 people and is a professional theatre. The stage has a proscenium arch which frames the stage. We went to see the musical version of the play which meant there were many songs and instances of singing throughout the play. Before I went to see the play I was expecting to see a clash between different classes and the slow progression of paranoia with Mrs Lyons. The fixed set on the stage are the houses on either sides. We can tell the residents of these houses are from different classes due to the style and size of them. On stage right there was the Johnstone’s house and two other houses. This already compared to the Lyon’s house on stage left is more expensive. The audience can also infer that one is more expensive than the other by the aesthetic features, such as a window being smashed on stage right and golden toppers on the balcony bars on stage left. The houses were a dull blue and brown colour which represented how the people in the houses felt and how much money they had. Many pieces of movable set were introduced during the musical. They were all very good reflections of the characters in the scenes. For example in the Lyons dining room everything was very clean, posh and organized. The flat represented this by having expensive looking wallpaper on it and also the type of window shown in the flat would only be in the poshest of houses. Another good example of movable set is when they are on the bus. This is good because they combined movable set and movement; we didn’t need to see the whole bus to get the effect of it. This was created by 3 sets of double bus seats and a steering wheel. The illusion was created effectively by the

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