Blood Brothers

Please note: Performances of this production have been postponed until further notice. We will provide updated details for new performance dates as soon as possible. All ticket purchases will be refunded. Thank you for your understanding and apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Blood Brothers by Willy Russell

7.30pm, Wednesday 18 March - Saturday 21 March

An old myth and a classical idea (nature versus nurture) provide the dramatic heart of this famous play by Willy Russell (Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine). There is an old prophecy that twins separated at birth will die if they ever discover the truth. And how much more potent is this belief if one twin is raised in poverty, the other in wealth? You can see the opportunities here for the dramatization of perennial themes about social class, privilege, opportunity and, lastly, fate - that familiar scourge of human lives.

By an act of necessity itself resulting from social deprivation, twins Edward and Mickey are separated at birth and end up at vastly different ends of the social scale. But “blood brothers” they remain in wholly unforeseeable circumstances. In powerful ironies that shape the dramatic action, their lives will be brought together again through fast-moving events across the years that are both achingly insightful about our human journey, and ultimately tragic.

This performance by our Senior School students will enable them to engage with identifiable characters. Themselves at an age filled with life’s possibilities, they can doubtless empathise with how the doors to opportunity will open and close unpredictably.  Life and art are close companions, and Blood Brothers is gripping and authentic in its exploration of some of the great universal themes that good theatre handles so adeptly.