Blood Brothers

Willy Russell, Rebecca Hillman (University of Exeter, UK), Rebecca Hillman (University of Exeter UK) , Chris Megson (Royal Holloway University of London UK)

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English

Methuen Drama
20 March 2025

Theatre Studies; Plays & playscripts; Playscripts (Children's&YA)

Series: Student Editions

Willy Russell’s 1983 play with music tells the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. One of them is given away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a bloodbath.

After its premiere at the Liverpool Playhouse, the musical has gone on to receive productions around the world and ran for decades in London’s West End, as well as extensively touring the UK.

This revised Student Edition includes a commentary by Rebecca Hillman, which offers accessible and vivid insights into the play and the context in which it was written through a 21st-century lens. As well as helping us appreciate the play today, it also conveys how how ground-breaking 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.

By: Willy Russell
Edited by: Chris Megson (Royal Holloway University of London UK), Matthew Nichols (Manchester Grammar School UK)
Volume editor: Rebecca Hillman (University of Exeter UK)
Other: Rebecca Hillman (University of Exeter UK)
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9781350386198
ISBN 10: 1350386197
Series: Student Editions
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 20 March 2025
Audience: Adult education , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Willy Russell is a playwright and songwriter, and one of the most-produced writers of his time. His plays and musicals for stage and TV including John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert (1974), Breezeblock Park (1975), One for the Road (1976), Our Day Out (television 1977; stage musical version 1983), Stags and Hens (1978; filmed as Dancin' thru the Dark, 1990), Educating Rita (1979), Blood Brothers (1981; musical version 1983), and Shirley Valentine (1986). Rebecca Hillman is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research and teaching concerns performance as political activism and agitprop theatre. She focuses on theatre made by activists and trade unions in Britain since the 1960s.