“ What's needed in these dark days is the occasional lift out of the humdrum and a shot of pure joy. And this show provides just that” wrote Charles Spencer of the Telegraph.
when “I Found My Horn” opened in London and Bridport Arts centre is proud to have persuaded the director Harry Burton to bring the play to Bridport on Saturday July 25th.
It had an enormously successful sold out run at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, and tickets, at £12.00, £10.00 supporters and £8.00 concs, are going fast as well from the
Arts Centre Box office: 01308 424204 .
Jasper Rees, the author of the popular Radio 4 Book of the Week, collaborated on the script for this stage version with actor Jonathan Guy Lewis – a fellow
lapsed horn player. The story revolves around a man who wakes up at forty to a broken marriage, a beckoning bedsit and the realisation that his life does not add up to much.
Then he clambers out into the attic and finds the French horn he never mastered in his youth and sets himself an impossible task – to play a Mozart horn concerto in front of a
paying audience. Jonathan Guy Lewis (from London’s Burning and Soldier Soldier), plays Jasper, tying himself up in knots of nerves and despair and brilliantly impersonating
those who help him in his struggle, including a terrifying tutor called Herman the German.
This stage version of Jasper Rees’ popular book works well because it chimes with the experiences of grappling with an instrument, the older person’s regret for things left
unfinished in youth and above all the nightmare of standing petrified before an expectant audience!
Finally, when he takes nervously to the stage to play Mozart's Third Horn Concerto, K447, you will be seriously rooting for him, and it would be a crime to give away the outcome
Music by Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Rossini is heard in the play.