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Blood Brothers The play is written by Willy Russell, who is born just outside Liverpool, and that's also where the story takes place. Willy Russell grows up in a working-class environment, where he is, due to the school system of his time where the students are put in the different classes by streaming, placed in the lowest level of the classes, because his parents are unskilled-labours. He leaves school with an English Language O level as his only qualification to work for six years as a hairdresser. Later he returns to school to take supplementary training at an evening class in English Literature. After this he begins writing. Willy Russell's huge theatrical success has been Blood Brothers; a Liverpudlian folk opera about a pair of twins who is separated at birth and brought up in completely different environments. One of the twins grows up in a middle class house hold, and the other...

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