Jack Horner Discusses His 20-Year Journey to Bring Jim Tully's 'Circus Parade' to Life

For Jack Horner, Circus Parade is a story 20 years in the making. First discovering Jim Tully’s raw and uncompromising account of life inside an early 20th century American circus while studying circus himself, Horner immediately saw something which had rarely been brought to the stage: not the sequins, spectacle and romanticism of the circus, but the sawdust, sweat, hardship and humanity beyond the tent.

_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Interview-Something-Is-Missing-From-The-Way-We-Portray-Circus-Writer-And-Director-Jack-Horner-On-Developing-Jim-Tullys-CIRCUS-PARADE-20260926)._