THREAD by Jules Horne

Scotsman Fringe First winners touring Scotland

Jules Horne is one of South Scotland's leading writers - based in the Borders, Jules won her second Fringe First for Thread (following on from 2011's The Allotment)

Jules (right) with her Fringe First for Thread

Now award-winning Edinburgh theatre company Nutshell is touring Scotland with Thread.This darkly funny play explores friendship, the choices we make and who we become when our memories start to fade.

Thread is the second play in Nutshell’s Still Points in a Turning World trilogy and will be touring this October as part of the Scotland wide Luminate Festival.

Come roll your dice at the Burntisland beetle drive and share Joan, William and Izzy’s tangled lives. Friends since primary school and closer-than-close ever since, identities stitched together as intricately as their homemade party clothes.

Living in the secure but suffocating embrace of a 1950s Scottish seaside community, who gets to become the person they want to be?

For further information, images and press tickets

LIZ SMITH: 07971 417210  daisy.ben@live.co.uk

TOUR DATES

September

Venue: Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh

Date/time: Wednesday 25 7.30pm

Box Office: 0131 665 2240 www.bruntontheatre.co.uk

Venue:  Church Hall, Wigtown Book Festival, Wigtown

Date/time: Saturday 28 12noon

Box Office: 01988 403222 www.wigtownbookfestival.comwww.wigtownbookfestival.com

October

Venue: New Pitsligo Hall, New Pitsligo

Date/time: Tuesday 8 7.30pm

Tickets: www.neatshows.org.uk

Venue: Stracathro Hall, by Brechin

Date/time: Friday 11 7.30pm

Tickets: 01674 850842 www.neatshows.org.uk & www.angusarts.org.uk

Venue: Crathes Hall, Crathes, nr Banchory

Date/time Saturday 12 7.30pm

Tickets: www.neatshows.org.uk w.neatshows.org.uk

 Venue: Birnam Arts, Dunkeld

Date/time: Thursday 17 8pm

Box Office: 01350 727674 www.birnamarts.com

Venue: Renfrew Town Hall

Date/time: Friday 18 2pm & 7.30pm

Box Office: www.boxoffice.renfrewshire.gov.uk

Venue: Corrie & Sannox Village Hall, Isle of Arran

Date/time: Saturday 19 7.30pm www.mclellanartsfestival.co.uk

Box Office: 01770 302670 www.mclellanartsfestival.com

JULES HORNE | Writer

is a playwright for stage and radio from the Scottish Borders. She read German and French at Oxford and was mentored in playwriting by Philip Howard, former Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre, on the Scottish Book Trust mentoring scheme.

Her plays include Thread (Nutshell), GORGEOUS AVATAR (Traverse Theatre), THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL (Quondam Theatre), MACMILLAN’S MARVELLOUS MOTION MACHINE and LIFE: AN AUDIO TOUR (Catherine Bailey Ltd/BBC Radio 4), SMALL BLUE THING, OVERDUE SOUTH and LEFT AT THE LIGHTS (BBC Radio Scotland), and INNER CRITIC (BBC7).