Drama †Blood Brothers Response Essay

Blood brothers is a solelyegory which was written in 1981 as a school sportsman and include a range of themes which help the audience understand and detect for the story rather than just watching it. The themes in this tomboy include poverty, innocence, love, games, belief and superstition. I savor that the key themes that control the play be chance and society of the time and I feel that most of the story circles a turning these themes and most events are cause by these themes.To emphasize the themes in the play, we reachd a three chip version of the play which consisted of shut up images, news report and stylised movement. We decided to split the play into four sections which were flub years, pip-squeakhood, 14 17 years and 20+ years. We decided that we would show the giving a manner of the s eat upr as this allows the rest of the story to flow. If it wasnt for this specific scene, the story wouldnt fool happened as the giving away of one twin is a signifi kindlet event in the play. This as well as allowed us to add perception to our pluck as this is one of the several events which separate people into two opinions. For the aid section (which was childhood) we included images of them first meeting, playing games, both of the mothers separating rice paddy and Eddie and Mrs Johnstone giving the locket to Eddie.My group and I felt that these were also important events in the play in fact one of the main themes in the play is games which relates to the robbery and overall shooting of both twins later on. For 14 -17 years, we decided to show both children being suspended from school, the meet up between friends with the devil memoir on top which we prospect allowed our piece to flow making it easier to understand. At the last stage, 20+, we performed four still images which included an unemployment scene, Lindas pregnancy, Eddie and Linda being in concert and finally the shooting with the second half of the images having the mad man narrat ion over the top in that locations a mad man running round and roundYou know the devils got your numberYou know hes right beside youHes screamin deep inside youAnd someone say hes callin your number up today straight offTodayTODAYThis piece of narration was used in our three minute version of the play as we thought that it summed up a herd of the happenings in this age group and is a constant theme through by the play. I found that the best way to tell this story indoors the three minutes was to use different techniques which allowed expressing and stressing of several moments in a play making it more effective. In our three minute version, this included levels, space and marking the moment. One example of these entire three put option to bring inher was when both boys got expelled. We had the build sitting pile at the hold up while the teacher was standing up straight looking down on one pupil who was higher than the class but turn away than the teacher. This made use of lev els, space and also marked the moment by focusing on the locket.We decided to hit the giving away of the go bad the most significant point in the play. This is because the whole of the story centres on this point, and if it wasnt for this event, none of the other events would have happened. To mark this moment, we used narration which was originally placed over the point where Mrs Johnstone was only considering giving the baby to Mrs Lyons.How quickly and idea, planted, canTake root and grow into a plan.The thought conceived in this very roomGrew as surely as a seed, in a mothers wombThis piece of narration allowed us to translate how the event they are seeing came into being.We found that meeting place theatre was a very useful technique to bring rice paddys monologue to life. Forum theatre was used to commute the way we express parenthoods and how to put expression, effect and life to the lines which in turn select the monologue a lot more vibrant and interesting. The way we performed fabrication theatre was to have someone acting out a meter of the poem. We then got the audience to comment and suggest improvements. We then acted the verse out again and repeated the process until we were happy with it. Below is the verse we performed.Y know our Sammy,He draws nudey women,Without arms, or legs or even headsIn the baths, when he goes swimmin.But Im not allowed to go to the baths,Me Mam says I have to wait,Cos I might get drowned, cos Im only seven,But Im not, Im near eight.We started off with the beginning of the verse being said in a very mysticive way although it was put in the category of secret in a child which meant that it had to be told something I had felt many a(prenominal) a time when I was a young child which also meant my body was slightly crouched and slightly tense. I used the same run through to goggle at what Sammy was able to do when he went swimming. Then dismay kicks in when I hit But Im not allowed as my voice goes slower an d my body slumps and when the mother comes on I re-enact a rather rude hand motion usually used when someone is too talkative while the mother reads her quote. The last line is said in a way of self-pity making the slip feel sorry for himself which I have felt many times when I was a young child and feeling as if my parents were deriving me of all of the worlds pleasures.In this monologue I learnt that Mickey was a character who always wanted more and wanted something someone else had that he hadnt which is an apparent characteristic of Mickey throughout the play. It also helped me realise that it was more than just a greedy feeling as the feeling was a lot deeper and it was if the world had forgotten about him but not the others who lived in the world around him. As I said before, meeting place theatre had helped me govern these characteristics as it helped shape what had been written. It was as if there were a lot of muddled thoughts and both me and the audience were helping to piece it together properly so we could both get an idea on how the character was really like and how the character really felt.For individual spontaneous improvisation, I acted as Mrs Johnstone where I was looking at both babies and playing with them as if it were my last time with both of them. Of course, at the time my character would have not known which baby would have been taken and because of this, I acted in a way as if it were the last time for Mrs Johnstone to see both of them. My thought track for this piece was I cant accept this is happening and it would have been hard to come to terms with something which could potentially change somebodys life, especially when it is your own son. This decision was both challenged and support by a technique called a conscience corridor which we used to find the pros and cons of giving the baby away which was then fired to somebody stepping into the home of Mrs Johnstone.Feeling the confused and mixed feelings, it gave us a chance to make our own decision as if we were that character. Some pros included having money, less stress, a better life for your son, less work. Some cons included the guilt of your child being bought, splitting up a natural bond abandoned to both children, more stress as you worry and having to cover it up from the outside world. The conscience corridor was put into action by splitting the class in half and putting them up as two sides to create a human corridor. We then got a member of our class to notch up while each person in the wall said the pros and cons. When the person in the middle finishes walking up through the corridor, he/she tells us his/her decision.In this situation, I wrote a diary entry as Mrs Johnstone. I typed my diary entry up belowI cant believe it is happening. So close to the time where one of my honey babies would be given away to my employer. I am sure that I am doing the right thing I cant collapse to give them both a good life and Mrs Lyons does want a baby so badly. Even so, I feel I am breaking a natural bond given to them both which makes me timid on whether I should do it. I am in a situation which I would never wish on any mother.Overall, I found that explorative strategies helped us understand Blood Brothers as it allowed us to see what usually are hidden thoughts and feelings of characters. It also allows us to get into character and realise how events and other actions are performed by the character.