The Narrator

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Willow Screaton

Cards (3)

  • Prologue

    Acts as a gossiping voice of the public: “so did you hear the story of the Johnson twins?”
    he tells the audience that the twins die at the end of the play creating tension
    he tells the audience to judge Mrs johnstone suggesting she is cruel and heartless for giving away her child highlighting the questions that will be raised as the music unfolds
  • Foreshadowing 

    Delivers warnings through rhymes and riddles alluding to the supernatural quality of superstition and fate
    He foreshadows that the past will come back to haunt the mothers: “the devils got your number, he’s knocking at your door”
    he delivers russells ideas at the end of the play: “and do we blame superstition for what came to pass? Or could it be what we, the english, have come to know as class?”
  • Voice of the public
    he acts as a milkman asking Mrs Johnstone to pay her bills: “I’m up to here with hard luck stories”
    He acts as a gynaecologist delivering the news of her twins: “congratulations and the next one please nurse”
    He acts as a bus conductor warning Mrs Johnstone that sammys behaviour will lead to trouble