A set text for AQA GCSE English Literature and hugely poular with schools One of the longest-running and most successful West End musicals Willy Russell has written some of the most popular and frequently staged plays of the last twenty-five years This edition also contains a chronology; a full introduction; teaching notes, interviews with the playwright and actors, discussion of the themes and ideas for further work; a glossary of words and phrases, photographs from stage productions and questions for study. The number 1 best-selling Methuen Drama play

A Liverpudlian West Side Story, Blood Brothers is 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 blood-bath. Blood Brothers was first performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983 and subsequently transferred to the Lyric Theatre, London. It was revived in the West End in 1988 for a long-running production and opened on Broadway in 1993.