In the conclusion to our Missives mini-series, the Angel of Blood writes a final letter to Lady Brass–but will it receive a reply? Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast (brass-stacks): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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
BRASS Episode 33: Next Moves
Lord Brass talks to the aviatrix, the Crime Minister moves some pieces, and Vincent Law shares a secret. 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 Stacks 11: When the Door Opened by Sarah Grand
A witty parable about the problem of assuming too much about one’s spouse, “When the Door Opened” was written by the Irish author Sarah Grand, one of the pioneers of fiction dealing with the “New Woman.” It’s read by renowned radio actor Larry Albert, best known for playing the titular detective in “The Adventures of Harry Nile” as well as … Read More
Happy Holidays from BRASS!
A brief holiday greeting and some news on BRASS Yuletide Specials, including our live stage show The Christmas Case: A Lady Brass Mystery. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast (brass-stacks): Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
BRASS Episode 25: Troubling Times
It is now 1886, and a new Prime Minister is in power. Arriving in Scotland, Lady Brass gets an update from the staff, while back in London, Ponder meets with a retired pugilist. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
Depicting a Demagogue
Season Three of BRASS introduces a new character, Lord Trent, a dissolute aristocrat who’s catapulted to political prominence as part of the machinations of the Crime Minister. Before you protest that such a thing is too fantastical, let’s just say that despite current political events, there’s little new in the biographies and methods of demagogues. (Though yes, it’s perhaps true … Read More