This play is an observation of modern day living and also of the evils of the class system. The main three characters in the play are Eddie, Mickey and Mrs Johnstone. Eddie and Mickey are twins, and Mrs Johnstone is their mother. They are separated at birth and grow up unaware of this.
             The play is told in a form so that the only person that changes his or her role is the narrator, who changes throughout in order to create the idea that the main characters are somehow cut off from the outside world at that they are unable to escape that. The Narrator follows the plot and is there from the first page to the last, almost like some deadly ethereal spectre, and he represents the devil that he often talks about. He is always a figure in the background, never directly intervening for good nor ill, he only accelerates the sense of impending disaster. The play itself is a musical, and all the music that is in it boils down to one theme tune, this theme is in the piece of music 'Tell me it's not true.' And all the other music in the play is based on that one tune. The music itself is quite sad and almost ominous, and it is made clear early on in the play that the ending will not be pleasant. Having seen the ending of the play at the start, and always knowing that Mickey and Eddie are going to die dramatically changes the way we, the audience see the play. We now see that the childish play of Eddie and Mickey the first time they meet is tainted with a sense of foreboding and dread, we also see this in the fairground scene where the narrator utters the lines
             'And who'd dare tell, the lambs in spring,
             What fate the later seasons bring.'
             This really puts unease in our hearts and we know that even in this scene of apparent happiness and joy there is a hidden evil, and that disaster awaits, whatever they do. They are plagued by som
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