{"product_id":"blood-brothers-9781350386198","title":"Blood Brothers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new Student Edition of Willy Russell''s enduring 1983 play, \u003ci\u003eBlood Brothers, \u003c\/i\u003eoffering 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 \u003ci\u003eBlood Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577902010711,"sku":"9781350386198","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350386198.jpg?v=1746097190","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blood-brothers-9781350386198","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}