Compare how Willy Russell portrays the two mothers in 'Blood Brothers'. Account for the different reactions the audience will have to the two women throughout the play.

... Compare how Willy Russell portrays the two mothers in 'Blood Brothers'. Account for the different reactions the audience will have to the two women throughout the play. The play 'Blood Brothers' revolves, around the subject of 'separated twins'. Willy Russell, the playwright, set 'Blood Brothers' in post Second World War Liverpool in the 1950s, a time when the image of being Marilyn Monroe was every girl's dream. It was also a time when people were striving to make ends meet because unemployment was high after the war. The character of Mrs Johnston represented one such person, Willy Russell constructed her as a poor working class single mother, who through necessity, had to give one of her twin boys away to her more wealthy, childless employer, Mrs Lyons. It was from the initial giving away of the child that the plots are developed. Willy Russell created two very different mothers to explore

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