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You can read more about the plot and content of Brassed Off here. We are interested in meeting children aged 9 -11 years old with a playing age (meaning the age they must be believable as) of 5-7 years old. The play is set in Yorkshire, so we are looking for young people with a northern accent.
The passionate band conductor Danny Ormondroyd finds he's fighting a losing battle to keep the rest of the band committed. His son Phil is badly in debt and becomes a clown for children's parties, but this fails to prevent his wife and children leaving him. In debt, Phil votes for the redundancy money, which he becomes ashamed of.
Aug 7, 2024 · Hannah Woodward is a spirited, if somewhat strident, Gloria – and a fine flugelhorn player, and Barney Taylor’s Andy matures from the somewhat feckless youth at the beginning to a young man...
Sep 8, 2024 · Brassed Off, written by Mark Herman, (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Little Voice) and adapted by Paul Allen (Radio 4’s Kaleidoscope) is set in the 1990s during the decline of the British coal mining industry.
Jul 8, 2024 · Along with Hickman’s Phil, we meet his long-suffering wife Sandra (Daneka Etchells), his brusquely stoic bandleader dad Danny (Russell Richardson) and his children, including Shane (Andrew Turner), who narrates from the future as an adult.
Brassed Off. Brass runs in Shane’s family, and in the midst of yet another cost of living crisis he looks back on the last great battle for the local pit and the defiant glory of Grimley Colliery Band. It’s 1994 and the tight-knit mining community of Grimley, Yorkshire are fighting to keep their colliery open.
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Jimmy Fairhurst elicits empathy as Phil, who buys a second-hand trombone even though he hasn’t got the money to feed his family, while Jo Mousley is his anguished wife, Sandra, totally credible as a distraught mother unable to put food on the table for her children.
