| Jules Horne | |
| Birth Date: | 1963 |
| Birth Place: | 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 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]
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| 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 | ||
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| Fresh Blood: Inner Critic | 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 | |||
| Island Blue: A Place in the Rain | 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 | ||
| Kelso – Overdue South | Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch Music by Gavin Marwick | BBC Radio Scotland Drama | |||
| Life: An Audio Tour[9] | 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 | ||
| Small Blue Thing[10] | 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 | ||
| Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine[11] [12] | 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 | ||
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| – | Borders Fusion: Pawkie Paitterson's Auld Grey Yaud[13] [14] | 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
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| – | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher | Rowan Tree Theatre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Gorgeous Avatar[15] [16] [17] [18] | 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| – | Overdue South | Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch | Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | [20] [21] | 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] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Helen Longworth, Danny Kennedy, Andrew Whitehead and Ruth Tapp | Quondam Theatre
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| – | Allotment[23] [24] [25] [26] | Pauline Goldsmith and Nicola Jo Cully | Nutshell Theatre / Assembly: Inverleith Allotments, Edinburgh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Thread[27] [28] [29] [30] [31] | Mary Gapinski, Claire Dargo and Stephen Docherty | Nutshell Theatre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Gowan Calder, Nicola Jo Cully and Stephen Docherty |
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| Handfast[32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] | Nicola Jo Cully, Joanna Holden, Robin Laing, Victoria Liddelle, Sandy Nelson and Mark McDonnell | Nutshell TheatreMacArts Centre, Galashiels | Performed script-in-hand as a work-in-progress, the first time the play was heard by an audience. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Nutshell Theatre & The Byre TheatreThe Byre Theatre, St Andrews | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| – | Nutshell Theatre & The Byre TheatreSummerhall, Edinburgh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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