Blood Brothers Review

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West End theatres usually have high stages.

In Blood Brothers when the characters are younger they are downstage and the adults are upstage, to help suggest height differences. On a practical level, my main observation is that I was surprised that the height of the set and the angle of the slope was higher upstage than downstage was not used to better advantage. For example, if I was involved in this production I would have tried to be downstage when playing the younger character when engaged in dialogue with an older character to emphasise the age and the height differences. In most plays or musicals where a character is a child, they are usually played by younger adults or children. However, I feel Willy Russell is trying to give the actors a chance to display their versatility, as this seems to be a tradition of Blood Brothers to have adult actors depicting all the different ages. With Edward, played by Simon Willmont, there had to be a big difference in his and Mickey's ...

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