Harry Burton to Direct I Found My Horn Rees and Lews

Harry Burton will direct I Found My Horn, a new play by Jasper Rees and Jonathan Guy Lewis, at the Tristan Bates Theatre from 1 to 20 December 2008, with the press night on December 1st. I Found My Horn, adapted from the book by Jasper Rees, will be performed by Jonathan Guy Lewis. Lighting is by Jeremy Coney with sound design by Daniel Thomason. I Found My Horn is presented by Sweet Spot Productions.

A man wakes up at forty to a broken marriage, a beckoning bedsit, and the realisation that he has done nothing to make himself memorable. Then he clambers into the attic... After a lay-off of 25 years, he seeks redemption via the sixteen feet of treacherous brass tubing he never mastered in his youth. Resuming his old French horn, he sets himself an impossible task: to perform a Mozart concerto in front of a paying audience of horn fanatics.

Jonathan Guy Lewis plays Jasper Rees - and everyone he encounters - on this voyage of musical discovery, from his old school conductor to the greatest German soloist since the war. And, of course, Mozart.

Jonathan Guy Lewis's television career has seen him play leading roles in London's Burning, Soldier Soldier and, in Coronation Street, Ian Bentley. His debut play Our Boys won the Writer's Guild Award for Best New Fringe Play. He is a lapsed horn player.

Harry Burton acted for twenty years before taking up directing. Recent credits include Pinter's The Dumb Waiter in the West End, Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Gray on tour, and Thinspiration, a film drama for Channel 4.

Jasper Rees has been a freelance journalist since 1989. He writes arts features for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and has also reported on football for the Independent on Sunday. I Found My Horn is his third book. He is also the author Wenger: The Making of a Legend and Blizzard: Race to the Pole.

I Found My Horn was published in January this year to critical acclaim. After being serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, I Found My Horn received its stage premiere this June at The Pumphouse as part of the Aldeburgh Festival.

For more information, visit: www.ifoundmyhorn.co.uk and www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk

 

To post a comment, you must register and login.