Our young reviewer is 13-year-old Mollie Ambrose, a pupil from The Beaconsfield School who lives in Burnham Beeches. 

This week, she went along to see Blood Brothers, which is currently showing at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre until Saturday 28 February.

Blood Brothers the musical, written by Willy Russell, originally a play for school children when it first came out in 1982, is showing at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre this week.

The overall performance was very enjoyable, I especially liked the plot – it’s quite simple but something about it is just utterly epic.

The play, set in Liverpool after World War Two, is about twins separated at birth called Michael and Edward showing how the boys become friends and the tragedies they will face together.

Some of the actors included in the performance are: Marti Pellow, Maureen Nolan, Sean Jones and Joel Benedict. 

The directors, Bob Tomson and Bill Kenright, did a brilliant job with this play. All of the actors suited their characters really well. Sean Jones, who played Michael, did an especially good job at portraying his character going through all of the different emotions such as happy, in love, depressed, confused and helpless. (He was also really funny).

One thing that I really think added to the play well was the narrating by Marti Pellow. It added a good amount of tension to the atmosphere of the play, where needed of course. 

It being a musical means that the singing was brilliant and the lyrics in some of the songs were really strong and had meaning which I really like.

I don’t really have any complaints about the play. I think it is really great and the standing ovation it received was well deserved.

I would highly recommend it to anyone from the age of 10+ who thinks that they might be interested in seeing it. Especially if you have never been to see a play at the theatre before I think Blood Brothers is a good one to start with.

If you go and see it I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!   

Blood Brothers is on at the Aylesbury Waterside until Saturday, 28 February. Tickets range from £12.90 to £41.40, available online at www.atgtickets.com/aylesbury or by calling the box office on 0844 871 7607.