As we pull this week’s version of the Bulletin together, we’re also assembling our pitch package for NATPE, a virtual TV producer and distributor conference. This is the third conference we’ve attended in the last couple of years, and only the second that (thanks to COVID) is virtual. In the last five years we’ve produced BRASS plays, BRASS podcasts and … Read More
BRASS Episode 37: Voices in the Dark
The cat-and-mouse games continue between Lord Brass and the Crime Minister, Gwendolyn visits a policeman, and Lord Trent arrives for another interview in the dark room. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode #35: Fellow Travelers
The intrigue continues as Gwendolyn goes street peddling, Cyril has a romantic ocean crossing and Lady Brass meets with the infamous leader of Edinburgh’s Chinatown, Madame Hao. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
The Knack and How He Got It: An Interview with Jeremy Adams
The Knack and How He Got It When Jeremy Adams auditioned for the role of Cyril Brass back in 2015, it seemed less like he was auditioning and more that he simply picked up the script and WAS Cyril—the charm, the diffidence, the dandyish swagger were all there at once. For the last five years, Adams has played the martially … Read More
BRASS Stacks 16: Christmas Every Day
William Dean Howell’s 1892 story about a little girl who wished it could be Christmas every day has an interesting moral or two for adults as well. Podcast (brass-stacks): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode 34: Masks Begin to Fall
Lord Brass examines some craft, Gwendolyn leads a meeting, and a mystery emerges regarding Professor Von Hoffmann. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Chasing Aimee
Aimee Decker is one of the rare members of the BRASS company to have performed in all three of our mediums. Twice on stage and once on film she’s played Tommy Moore, one of the cunning criminal cabal known as The Watch and Chain Gang. And this season she premieres as Madame Hao, a Sino-Scot kingpin in this alternate century’s … Read More
Re-Orientation
In the upcoming Episode 34 of BRASS, we’re told that Madame Hao lives in the Chinatown of Edinburgh–a place entirely imaginary in 1886. But in this different world, the historical accidents of the computer age arriving a century early has made for a very different British Empire, and a very different Chinese Empire as well. In our own history, the … Read More
BRASS Episode 31: On and Off the Chessboard
A collection of cliffhangers are rapidly resolved–though with some dire consequences for some of our heroes. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Stacks 15 : Oh Whistle, And I’ll Come to You, My Lad
A classic ghost story from an acknowledged Master, “Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” is a reminder that not all finders should be keepers. Read by our Lord Brass, Charles Leggett. Podcast (brass-stacks): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS