Rebecca Storm is older, wiser and perfect for the part of Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers

Rebecca Storm is back in Blood Brothers, the show which made her famous, says Jo Kerrigan.

WHEN Blood Brothers opens in Dublin at the end of this month, it will add a jewel to its diadem of awards and accolades. That jewel is Rebecca Storm, recreating the role she made famous in 1983. She plays the lead, Mrs Johnstone, a mother torn apart by love and loss, and hardship, yet always determined and strong.

Storm can reprise the role after so many years because she was too young in 1983; she is now the right age for the feisty, working class Liverpudlian mum in Willy Russell’s play.