Blood brothers

• Who is Mrs Johnstone?

  A working class single mother, who at the start of the play works as a cleaner for the Lyonses
• Three words to describe Mrs Johnstone?

  Superstitious, vulnerable and caring
• Who is Mrs Lyons?


  A typical middle-class woman in the 1960's, she is a housewife
• Three words to describe Mrs Lyons?

  Unhappy, manipulative and insecure
• Who is Mickey Johnstone?

  The youngest of Mrs Johnstone's children, working class family
• Three words to describe Mickey Johnstone?


  Friendly, sensitive and troubled
• Who is Edward Lyons?

  The child Mrs Johnstone gives away, raised as an only child of a middle-classed couple
• Three words to describe Edward Lyons?


  Gernerous, polite and naïve
• Who is Linda?


  Mickey's childhood friend
• Three words to describe Linda?

  Protective, passionate and proactive
• Who is Sammy Johnstone?

  Mickey's older brother, badly behaved and bullies Mickey
• Three words to describe Sammy Johnstone?

  Aggressive, badly-behaved and persuasive
• Who is the Narrator?


  Helps tell the story of Blood Brothers
• Three words to describe the narrator?

  Menacing, mysterious and unsympathetic
• A quote showing Mrs Johnstone as 'superstitious'?

  "Mrs Lyons, never put new shoes on a table..."
• A quote showing Mrs Johnstone as 'vulnerable'?


  "How are we gonna live without my job?"
• A quote showing Mrs Johnstone as 'caring'?


  "Does your mother look after you?"
• A quote showing Mrs Lyons as 'unhappy'?

  "We've been trying for such a long time now..."
• A quote showing Mrs Lyons as 'manipulative'?

  "Surely, it's better to give one child to me."
• A quote showing Mrs Lyons as 'insecure'?

  "I don't want her to hold the baby, Richard."
• A quote showing Mickey Johnstone as 'friendly'?

  "Do you wanna be my blood brother, Eddie?"
• A quote showing Mickey Johnstone as 'sensitive'?


  "He couldn't stop the tears."
• A quote showing Mickey Johnstone as 'troubled'?


  "Now give me the tablets...I need them."
• A quote showing Edward Lyons as 'generous'?

  "Yes, of course. Take as many as you want."
• A quote showing Edward Lyons as 'polite'?

  "You're looking very well, Mrs Johnstone."
• A quote showing Edward Lyons as 'naïve'?


  "Why don't you buy a new house near us?"
• A quote showing Linda as 'protective'?

  "Oh leave him alone, you. Y'big worm!"
• A quote showing Linda as 'passionate'?


  "I don't care who knows. I just love you."
• A quote showing Linda as 'proactive'?


  "I think I've got Mickey a job."
• A quote showing Sammy Johnstone as 'aggressive'?


  "Now move, you. Move! Give me the bag."
• A quote showing Sammy Johnstone as 'badly-behaved'?

  "Sammy burnt down the school"
• A quote showing Sammy Johnstone as 'persuasive'?

  "Fifty quid, Mickey. Fifty quid for an hour's work."
• A quote showing the Narrator as 'menacing'?

  "Did you forget about the reckoning day?"
• A quote showing the Narrator as 'mysterious'?

  "If only the three of them could stay like that forever"
• A quote showing the Narrator as 'unsympathetic'?

  "Did y'never hear of the mother, so cruel"