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Mrs Johnstone is a warm and caring mother, despite the struggles she faces supporting her eight children alone. At the start of the play, she describes how difficult her life has been.
Key plot details. Mrs Johnstone, a struggling single mother of seven, finds out that she is pregnant with twins. Her employer, Mrs Lyons persuades Mrs Johnstone to give her one of the babies.
As Act One opens, Mrs. Johnstone laments in song, begging the narrator and audience to “tell me it’s not true.”. The Narrator, meanwhile, introduces the audience to the story of the Johnstone brothers, twins separated at birth, who found out the story of their origins only moments before they died.
So, did y’ hear the story of the Johnstone twins? As like each other as two new pins. How one was kept and one given away? And they were born and died on the self same day.
Online study guide for Blood Brothers (Grades 9–1), Characters Writing about Mrs Johnstone.
Act I. The play opens with a prologue that tells us that the Johnstone twins were separated and then died on the day they found out about each other. Mrs Johnstone gives a brief history of her life and then starts her new job cleaning for Mrs Lyons.
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