Theatre
Blood Brothers
- Artists
- Willy Russell
Thirtieth anniversary production of Willy Russell’s international smash hit musical. The epic tale of Liverpool life started as a play, performed at a Liverpool comprehensive school in 1981 before opening at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983, completing sell out seasons in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan.
Blood Brothers tells the story of twin boys separated at birth, only to be reunited by a twist of fate and a mother’s haunting secret. When Mrs Johnstone, a young mother, is deserted by her husband and left to her own devices to provide for seven hungry children she takes a job as a housekeeper in order to make ends meet.
It is not long before her brittle world crashes around her when she discovers herself to be pregnant yet again – this time with twins! In a moment of weakness and desperation, she enters a secret pact with her employer which leads inexorably to the show’s shattering climax.
Lyn Paul, who rose to fame in the early 1970s as a member of the New Seekers, returns as Mrs Johnstone.
Mon-Sat 7.30pm plus matinees Wed and Sat 2.30pm, £17.90 upwards. For more info and to book tickets, visit www.atgtickets.com/shows/blood-brothers/bristol-hippodrome
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