Stags and Hens Stags and Hens Stags and Hens is a play written by Willy Russell. Like most of Willy Russell's work, the play discusses working class society in England in the 1970s. It makes comments about the working class' intellect, life, party habits and the exclusion of the different. It was originally written in 1978 for television and drama students of the then-Manchester Polytechnic, as an in-house television production. It was first published as a script in 1986 in a collection with Educating Rita and Blood Brothers. Russell adapted it for performance in 2008 as 'Stags and Hens - The Remix' at
Blood Brothers (musical) was produced by the Harvest Rain Theatre Company of Brisbane playing the Cremorne Theatre August 3–17: directed by Tim O'Connor, the production featured Amanda Muggleton in the role of Mrs. Johnstone. Muggleton had previously played Mrs. Johnstone in the Metcalfe Playhouse (Perth) production of "Blood Brothers" which ran November 11 - December 4, 2011. The Chapel Off Chapel venue in Prahran hosted a production of "Blood Brothers" from March 19 – April 6, 2014: the cast included Chelsea Plumley as Mrs.Johnstone and Peter Hardy and Glenda Linscott as the Lyons. In 2015 Enda Markey revived "Blood Brothers" for a February