[DRAMA COURSE WORK]

[Alec Barber 10Q]

 [Genres]

 Historical – Downtown Abbey  Rom- com – Love, Simon

 Action – Divergent
 Anime – Demon Slayer
 Thriller – The Imitation Game
 Fantasy – Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire
 Adventure – Percy Jackson and the
Lightning Thief
 Music Theatre - Hamilton
 Horror – Jigsaw
 Si-fi – Star Trek
 [Blood Brothers- Willy Russell’s]

The split colours

could show that
the brothers are
from different
backgrounds, and
they juxtapose
Twins were
separated at birth

Set in Liverpool. One was from a rich

The Liverpool family, and one was
skyline is seen from a poor family.
under the hands.
 [THE STORYLINE]

Twin brothers, Michael and Edward, were separated at birth. One grew up in a rich family, Edward, and one
grew up in a poor household, Edward. This is because Mrs Johnstone couldn’t afford two more children
over all her current children, so she gave one secretly to Mrs Lyons, a wealthy lady who couldn’t have
children. This resulted in both brothers grew up in completely different social classes. However, they still
become friends, despite their mothers’ constant horror of them finding out. They still were friends in their
adulthood but that’s when things go wrong… They both like Linda when she gets married to Mickey, she
starts seeing Edward when Mickey is in prison. This ends in the tragic love triangle ending in a fatal finale,
fuelled with jealousy and fear.

[THE SETTING]

Blood Brothers is set in Liverpool in the 1950s-1970s. It’s set in both

the poor side of Liverpool and the wealthy, rich side of Liverpool.
This highlights the difference between where the brother’s social class
 [Actor Skills (if you were in Blood Brothers)]
• Very dramatic • Good team worker
• Need to do a good accent
• Need to be able to travel if the play becomes
• Empathy
famous • Remorse
• Need to communicate with the audience
• Need to be Qualified
• Be able to project their voice
• Dedicated to their job • Creativity
• Need to have good time management skills
• Take criticism not personally
• Meets deadlines
• Confident • Be able to memorise
• Need to be able to change lifestyle lines/scripts
 [Actor Responsibilities
(if you were in Blood Brothers)]
• Attend rehearsals on time
• Keep your body and voice in shape
• Prepare for set material
• Change your body if it’s needed auditions
• Not be disappointed if you don’t get your
chosen part • Confident in auditions
• Be able to take criticism
• Learn stage directions and scripts • Changing body/voice to
• Follow instructions given by your director
• Look after your body physically and
fit your character
mentally
• Work well with others
• Good team player
 [Playwright Responsibilities

• Write the play

• Prepare for set material
• Need to be creative and imaginative
• Good Communication Skills (Able to
justify their ideas)
• Good English skills – Spelling and
Grammar
• Prior experience- past publications
• Qualifications/Degree – Trained to
write a script
• Good researcher- able to back up any
evidence with facts
 [When I acted like a 7-year-old, These are the acting
skills I used]

Can’t say things

High-pitched voice
Energetic
Giddy
Play fighting
Mocking
Tantrums
Bad-balancing
Stuttering
Say things wrong
[When I acted like a 7-year-old, These are the acting skills I used]

I rolled my eyes – this is to

show my disgust and
resentment of the rule
I looked shocked and angry –
this is to show my shock at
Sammy stealing Mickey’s car.
I was surprised – this is to
show that
 • Born on 23 August 1947 near Liverpool to a working-class family.
• Russell was born in Whiston, Lancashire (which is now Merseyside).

[Willy Russell – Fact On leaving school, aged 15, he became a women's hairdresser,
eventually running his salon, until the age of 20 when he decided to
File] go back to college. This led to him qualifying as a teacher. During
these years, Russell also worked as a semi-professional singer,
writing and performing his songs in folk clubs.
• Blood Brothers was a Brechtian play, which means ’epic’ where
there was dramatic action was episodic. He thought that theatre
should leave people thinking about what they’ve watched and
serious, not happy and amazed by the performance. He used his
plays to inject serious themes into his readers.
• He got a 1993: Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical – Blood
Brothers
 Bertolt Brecht - Fact File

• Bertolt Brecht (1898- 1956) was a famous German playwright and poet
• Brecht started to write political poetry and plays at an early age about social issues.
• He was branded as a “trouble-maker” at school and got expelled for writing anti-
war poems
• Brecht became interested in Karl Marx’s theories of socialism
• Marxist theories were about social justice and were critical of Capitalism – it is
about questioning who has power and money, and who goes without.
• It is about industrialisation and how this affects workers and the power structures of
society..