Blood Brothers

"Blood Brothers is undoubtedly the most exciting thing to have happened to the English musical theatre in years... essentially a folk opera, a Liverpudlian West Side Story, about twin brothers who grow up on opposite sides of the social tracks without realising their fraternity." Sheridan Morley. "Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping than with weaving a close-knit story about the working of fate and destiny ...
it carries one along with it in almost unreserved enjoyment." Guardian

Blood Brothers premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in January 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. This edition includes an introduction by the author.