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A new Student Edition of Willy Russell''s enduring 1983 play, Blood Brothers, offering accessible and vivid insights into the play and the context in which it was written through a C21st lens. As well as exploring the key themes, characters and dramatic devices of the play, and how they map onto our experience today, it conveys how groundbreaking Blood Brothers was at the time in representing working-class lives on stage, as well as explicitly exposing the flaws of the British class system.The commentary by Rebecca Hillman encourages students to:* consider what it must have been like to be at the very first performance of the play in a school classroom in Liverpool; * consider the significance of key phrases in the text, such as living on the never never and the debt must be paid* make comparisons between life in 1980s Britain and today - the shrinking pound, the global slump and the price of oil;* think about what the play celebrates - friendship, family, community, neig

Blood Brothers

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 1/20/2025
      ISBN-13 9781350386198
      978-1350386198
      ISBN-10 1350386197
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A new Student Edition of Willy Russell''s enduring 1983 play, Blood Brothers, offering accessible and vivid insights into the play and the context in which it was written through a C21st lens. As well as exploring the key themes, characters and dramatic devices of the play, and how they map onto our experience today, it conveys how groundbreaking Blood Brothers was at the time in representing working-class lives on stage, as well as explicitly exposing the flaws of the British class system.The commentary by Rebecca Hillman encourages students to:* consider what it must have been like to be at the very first performance of the play in a school classroom in Liverpool; * consider the significance of key phrases in the text, such as living on the never never and the debt must be paid* make comparisons between life in 1980s Britain and today - the shrinking pound, the global slump and the price of oil;* think about what the play celebrates - friendship, family, community, neig

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