Jules Horne

Jules Horne
Born 1963
Hawick, Scotland
Occupation playwright, radio dramatist and fiction writer
Nationality Scottish

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 2005–2008, 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 broadcast Play Director Cast Synopsis
Awards		 Station
Series
6 April 2005 Days of Reckoning: The Christmas Chair Read by Julie Austin An old man with Alzheimer's is brought home to spend the festive season with his family. BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Reading
25 December 2005 The Hidden Gift: Left at the Lights David Ian Neville BBC Radio Scotland Drama
5 April 2006 Fresh Blood: Inner Critic David Ian Neville There'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
8 June 2006 Island Blue: A Place in the Rain David Ian Neville Sarah Collier, Rose McBain, Lucy Paterson and Lesley Hart Self-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
13 July 2006 Kelso – Overdue South Marilyn Imrie Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch
Music by Gavin Marwick		 BBC Radio Scotland Drama
30 January 2008 Life: An Audio Tour[9] Philip Howard Sandy McDade, Edith MacArthur, Lewis Howden and Alex Elliott Jenny 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
14 May 2008 Small Blue Thing[10] Rosie Kellagher Clare Waugh, Molly Innes, Isla Cowan and James Mackenzie An 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
19 May 2011 Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine[11][12] Rosie Kellagher Scott Hoatson, John Kazek, Gabriel Quigley, Gavin Mitchell, Isabella Jarrett and Leo MacNeill Young 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
Date Title Director Cast Synopsis Theatre Company Notes
17 May 2001 – 2 June 2001 Borders Fusion: Pawkie Paitterson's Auld Grey Yaud[13][14] Stewart Aitken Simon Crouch, Matthew Burgess and Kathleen Quinn Based on a traditional poem, which finds an ageing horse setting out its last will and testament. Cross Country Theatre Company
7 June 2001 – 9 June 2001 Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
2002 – Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher Judy Steel Rowan Tree Theatre
9 May 2006 – 20 May 2006 Gorgeous Avatar[15][16][17][18] Philip Howard Pauline Knowles, Una McLean, Patrick Hoffman and John Kazek Amy 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
23 May 2006 – 10 June 2006

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2006 – Overdue South Marilyn Imrie Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
8 May 2009 – 24 May 2009 The Devil on Wheels[20][21] Kate Nelson Fraser Boyle Monologue 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
 Created for the Scottish Forestry Commission for The World Mountain Bike Conference and Original Bicycle Festival[22]
8 October 2010 – 14 November 2010 The Wife of Usher's Well Stefan Escreet Helen Longworth, Danny Kennedy, Andrew Whitehead and Ruth Tapp Quondam Theatre
 Supported by Arts Council England
8 August 2011 – 28 August 2011 Allotment[23][24][25][26] Kate Nelson Pauline Goldsmith and Nicola Jo Cully Nutshell Theatre / Assembly: Inverleith Allotments, Edinburgh

Short stories

Journalism

References

  1. ↑ Jules Horne CV – TextHouse
  2. ↑ Jules Horne biography – Alan Brodie Representation
  3. ↑ Jules Horne biography – Scottish Book Trust
  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
  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
  13. ↑ Border Fusion – Thelma Good, Edinburgh Guide, 7 June 2001
  14. ↑ Borders Fusion, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh – Neil Cooper, The Herald, 8 Jun 2001
  15. ↑ Gorgeous Avatar – Thelma Good, Edinburgh Guide, 9 May 2006
  16. ↑ Gorgeous Avatar – Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 12 May 2006
  17. ↑ Gorgeous Avatar – Thom Dibdin, The Stage, 15 May 2006
  18. ↑ Finding love on a laptop – The Scotsman, 19 May 2006
  19. ↑ 2006 Tour Details of Traverse Theatre's production of Gorgeous Avatar
  20. ↑ Kirkpatrick Macmillan play wheels into Penpont – Sara Bain, Dumfries & Galloway Standard, 8 May 2009
  21. ↑ Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser, 20 May 2009
  22. ↑ Original Bicycle Festival Report (pages 10–11)
  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
  27. ↑ Is there a better reference for Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher?


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