Write A Review of the Production at the Phoenix Theatre, London

... Jordan Clement G.C.S.E. Coursework 20/01/20021 Write A Review of the Production at the Phoenix Theatre, London On 29th November I went to the Phoenix Theatre in London (west end) to see one of Willy Russell's greatest plays. Blood Brothers is set in Liverpool in the early eighties. The play follows the life of two main characters: Eddie Lyons and Mickey Johnstone, who are twins split at birth. In Blood Brothers the characters fall into two stereotypical groups: the working class and the upper-middle class. The reason the play focuses on the difference in class is that the play was written in the reign of Margaret Thatcher who told the people of Great Britain to look after themselves, and that there is no such thing as a society. Willy Russell was against this way of thinking and wrote plays opposing it. Mrs. Johnstone is a typical working class woman who lives on her own

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