Jules Horne
Birth date1963
Birth placeHawick, Scotland
Occupationplaywright, radio dramatist and fiction writer
NationalityScottish

Jules Horne (born 1963) is a Scottish playwright, radio dramatist and fiction writer.

Jules Horne was born in Hawick, Scotland, and lived in Bonn, Bern and Reading before returning to the Scottish Borders. Following a German degree at Oxford, she worked in Germany and Switzerland as a translator, editor and BBC Radio journalist. She returned to the UK in 2000 to write full-time.

Jules was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 2001 and the National Library of Scotland Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2002.

Her first full-length play, Gorgeous Avatar, was performed by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 2006, and in Japanese at AI Hall, Itami, Osaka in 2007, and by Heidelberg University's Schauspielgruppe Anglistik in 2008. Plays for radio include Left at the Lights (BBC Radio Scotland), Inner Critic (BBC 7), A Place in the Rain (BBC Radio 4), Overdue South (BBC Radio Scotland), Life: An Audio Tour (BBC Radio 4), Small Blue Thing (BBC Radio Scotland) and Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine (BBC Radio 4). She was the Scottish Arts Council's Virtual Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway from 2005 to 2008, and has taught playwriting in schools as part of the Traverse's Class Act project. She teaches creative writing as an Associate Lecturer at Open University.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Her play Allotment for Nutshell Theatre won a Scotsman Fringe First at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the 2011 Fringe Award by the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.[7][8]

Radio Plays

Radio Plays written by Jules Horne
Date first broadcastPlayDirectorCastSynopsis
Awards		Station
Series
2005-04-06Days of Reckoning: The Christmas ChairRead by Julie AustinAn old man with Alzheimer's is brought home to spend the festive season with his family.BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading
2005-12-25The Hidden Gift: Left at the LightsDavid Ian NevilleBBC Radio Scotland Drama
2006-04-05Fresh Blood: Inner CriticDavid Ian NevilleThere's a carping, spiteful wee voice in Danni's ear crushing her spirit. Imaginary or real, can Danni get rid of her all too vicious inner critic?BBC Radio 7
2006-06-08Island Blue: A Place in the RainDavid Ian NevilleSarah Collier, Rose McBain, Lucy Paterson and Lesley HartSelf-made millionaire, Bren, finds more questions than answers in the island's solitude. Shonagh wants to get on the property ladder but will the in-comer spoil her dream?BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
2006-07-13Kelso – Overdue SouthMarilyn ImrieEileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch
Music by Gavin Marwick		BBC Radio Scotland Drama
2008-01-30Life: An Audio Tour[9]Philip HowardSandy McDade, Edith MacArthur, Lewis Howden and Alex ElliottJenny is trying to win Joe back after her disastrous affair. Her unusual strategy is to offer him an audio tour of the small Scottish town of Kelso.BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
2008-05-14Small Blue Thing[10]Rosie KellagherClare Waugh, Molly Innes, Isla Cowan and James MackenzieAn eerie tale of childhood jealousy and possession where a small glass marble seems to have a powerful hold over one young woman's life.BBC Radio Scotland Drama
2011-05-19Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine[11][12]Rosie KellagherScott Hoatson, John Kazek, Gabriel Quigley, Gavin Mitchell, Isabella Jarrett and Leo MacNeillYoung Scots country blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan is a man of ideas, like the velocipede – a clanking, pedalled contraption that's the ancestor of the modern bicycle. He cycled from Penpont to Glasgow and committed the world's first cycle crime in 1842.BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play

Theatre

Stage plays written by Jules Horne
DateTitleDirectorCastSynopsisCompany / TheatreNotes
2001-05-17 – 2001-06-02Borders Fusion: Pawkie Paitterson's Auld Grey Yaud[13][14]Stewart AitkenSimon Crouch, Matthew Burgess and Kathleen QuinnBased on a traditional poem, which finds an ageing horse setting out its last will and testament.

Cross Country Theatre Company

Tour
17 May 2001 Denholm Village Hall
2 June 2001The Wynd Theatre Melrose
2001-06-07 – 2001-06-09Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
2002 –Bill McLaren Was My PE TeacherJudy SteelRowan Tree Theatre
2006-05-09 – 2006-05-20Gorgeous Avatar[15][16][17][18]Philip HowardPauline Knowles, Una McLean, Patrick Hoffman and John KazekAmy enjoys her isolation in a small Borders town, glued to her laptop and conducting her work, shopping and a long-distance relationship via the internet – but the real world catches up with her when her American internet beau gets on a plane to visit.Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
2006-05-23 – 2006-06-10
Tour
23 May 2006Yetholm Wauchope Hall
24 May 2006Galashiels Volunteer Hall
25 May 2006Carlops Village Hall
29 May 2006Dumfries Theatre Royal
31 May 2006Ballachulish Village Hall
2 June 2006Stornoway, Isle of Lewis An Lanntair
5 June 2006Achiltibuie Coigach Community Hall
6 June 2006Ullapool Macphail Theatre
8 June 2006Strathpeffer Pavilion
10 June 2006 Isle of Skye Sabhal Mor Ostaig

[19]

2006 –Overdue SouthMarilyn ImrieEileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy RiddochTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh
2009-05-08 – 2009-05-24The Devil on Wheels[20][21]Kate NelsonFraser BoyleMonologue celebrating the life and heritage of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the Dumfriesshire blacksmith who invented the pedal bicycle, centres on Macmillan's appearance in a Glasgow court where he was charged with dangerous driving and knocking down a young girl while riding his new pedal bicycle through the Gorbals in 1842.

Nutshell Theatre

Tour
Dumfries & Galloway tour, May 2009
8 May 2009Penpont Primary School
Festival Café at DG One Dumfries
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre Dumfries
23–24 May 2009 Drumlanrig Castle
Created for the Scottish Forestry Commission for The World Mountain Bike Conference and Original Bicycle Festival[22]
2010-10-08 – 2010-11-14The Wife of Usher's WellStefan EscreetHelen Longworth, Danny Kennedy, Andrew Whitehead and Ruth Tapp

Quondam Theatre

Tour
8 October 2010Ferguson Hall Belford, Northumberland
9 October 2010Pegswood Community Project Northumberland
13 October 2010Bishop Auckland Town Hall
14 October 2010Eastriggs Social Club
15–16 October 2010 Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association
19 October 2010The Brindley Runcorn
20 October 2010Residency Heart of Hawick
21 October 2010Heart of Hawick
22 October 2010Bowhill Theatre Selkirk, Scottish Borders
23 October 2010The Wynd Theatre Melrose
26 October 2010Tithe Barn Carlisle
27 October 2010Plumbland Village Hall Cumbria
28 October 2010Ireby Globe Hall Cumbria
29 October 2010Brigham Memorial Hall Cumbria
2010Haile Village Hall Cumbria
2 November 2010Talbot Theatre Whitchurch, Shropshire
3 November 2010Bowes & Gilmonby Parish Hall Durham
4 November 2010Appleby-in-Westmorland Public Hall
5 November 2010Lacey Thompson Hall Hallbankgate
6 November 2010Askham Village Hall Cumbria
7 November 2010Nicholforest Village Hall Penton Cumbria
10 November 2010Anslow Village Hall
11 November 2010Hurley Village Hall Warwickshire
12 November 2010Gilbert Sheldon Hall Stanton, Staffordshire
13 November 2010Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall Holloway, Derbyshire
14 November 2010St Anne's Church Hall Wendover
Supported by Arts Council England
2011-08-08 – 2011-08-28Allotment[23][24][25][26]Kate NelsonPauline Goldsmith and Nicola Jo CullyNutshell Theatre / Assembly: Inverleith Allotments, Edinburgh
2012-8-3 – 2012-8-26Thread[27][28][29][30][31]Kate NelsonMary Gapinski, Claire Dargo and Stephen DochertyNutshell Theatre
2013-9-20 – 2013-10-19Gowan Calder, Nicola Jo Cully and Stephen Docherty
Tour
20–21 Sept  Tron Theatre, Glasgow
25 SeptBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh
28 SeptWigtown Book Festival, Wigtown
8 OctNew Pitsligo Hall, New Pitsligo
11 OctStracathro Hall, by Edzell
12 OctCrathes Hall, Crathes
17 OctBirnam Arts Centre, Birnam
18 OctPaisley Arts Centre, Paisley
19 OctCorrie Hall, Isle of Arran
2018-1-27Handfast[32][33][34][35][36][37]Kate NelsonNicola Jo Cully, Joanna Holden, Robin Laing, Victoria Liddelle, Sandy Nelson and Mark McDonnellNutshell Theatre MacArts Centre, GalashielsPerformed script-in-hand as a work-in-progress, the first time the play was heard by an audience.
2018-6-28 – 2018-6-30Joanna Holden, Stephen Doherty, Pauline Goldsmith, Sandy Nelson, Mary Gapinski and Valentine HansonNutshell Theatre & The Byre Theatre The Byre Theatre, St Andrews
2018-8-3 – 2018-8-26Nutshell Theatre & The Byre Theatre Summerhall, Edinburgh

Short stories

  • Agnus Dei, Macalllan Shorts 1 Polygon, 1998 ISBN 978-0-7486-6245-6
  • Life Kit #1, Franklin's Grace Fish, 2002 ISBN 978-0-9542586-0-3
  • Radar Bird, Macallan Shorts V, Polygon, 2003 ISBN 978-0-7486-6329-3
  • The Case Against Wings, Chapman 2004 ISBN 978-1-903700-10-5
  • Nanonovels, Product magazine, 2004–2008 ISSN 1468-9901
  • Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher[38]

Journalism

References

  1. ^ Jules Horne CV – TextHouse Archived 12 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Jules Horne biography – Alan Brodie Representation". Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  3. ^ Jules Horne biography – Scottish Book Trust Archived 4 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Jules Horne biography – doollee.com
  5. ^ Jules Horne biography – TextHouse
  6. ^ Teen Playwrights Take-Over the Stage – Class Act 2005 – Lorna Lythgoe, Edinburgh Guide, 3 December 2005 Archived 2 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Revealed: The second round of Scotsman Fringe First winners – Andrew Eaton-Lewis, 19 August 2011
  8. ^ Sustainable Production Award Announced for 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, September 1st, 2011
  9. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Life: An Audio Tour
  10. ^ BBC – BBC Radio Scotland – Small Blue Thing
  11. ^ BBC – Afternoon Play – Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine
  12. ^ URsTV – Play on Bike Inventor Macmillan Archived 31 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ Border Fusion – Thelma Good, Edinburgh Guide, 7 June 2001 Archived 27 October 2004 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ Borders Fusion, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 8 Jun 2001
  15. ^ Gorgeous Avatar – Thelma Good, Edinburgh Guide, 9 May 2006 Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ Gorgeous Avatar – Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 12 May 2006
  17. ^ Gorgeous Avatar – Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 15 May 2006[dead link]
  18. ^ Finding love on a laptop – The Scotsman, 19 May 2006
  19. ^ 2006 Tour Details of Traverse Theatre's production of Gorgeous Avatar Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ^ Kirkpatrick Macmillan play wheels into Penpont – Sara Bain, Dumfries & Galloway Standard, 8 May 2009
  21. ^ Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser, 20 May 2009 Archived 26 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ "Original Bicycle Festival Report (pages 10–11)". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  23. ^ Allotment – Nutshell Theatre
  24. ^ Nutshell Theatre's Allotment: Bring your own veg to the show that's a grower – Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 8 August 2011
  25. ^ Edinburgh Festival 2011: Allotment, Assembly, Inverleith Allotments, review – Louise Gray, The Telegraph, 10 Aug 2011
  26. ^ Allotment – Review by Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 19 August 2011 Archived 5 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  27. ^ Thread – Nutshell Theatre
  28. ^ Thread – Nutshell Theatre
  29. ^ Theatre review: Thread; Assembly St Mark's – Emma Hay, The Scotsman, 16 August 2012
  30. ^ Thread – Tron Theatre, Glasgow
  31. ^ Life in a nutshell – Thom Dibdin, All Edinburgh Theatre, 24 September 2013
  32. ^ Handfast – TalkFest in the Borders
  33. ^ Handfast – Nutshell Theatre
  34. ^ Handfast – Summerhall
  35. ^ Review: Handfast by Nutshell Theatre – David Pollock, Fest, 5 August 2018
  36. ^ Handfast – Martin Gray, All Edinburgh Theatre, 11 August 2018
  37. ^ Edinburgh Fringe 2018: Handfast – by Jenni Davidson, Fringe Review, 17 August 2018
  38. ^ Is there a better reference for Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher?