About me

CLIVE JUDD is an award-winning writer, theatre director & bookseller originally from Worcester, now living in Birmingham. Clive’s debut play HERE won the Papatango Prize in 2022 from a then record 1553 scripts and was staged at the Southwark Playhouse in November 2022. He also co-runs the Birmingham-based independent bookshop VOCE BOOKS and co-curates the bi-monthly experimental prose night STORIE.

My Plays

HERE


Synopsis:

A family packs into a small house with a tangled history. Matt is here, yearning to reach someone he's lost. His cousin Jess is here, too; she just wants to feel something. Anything. And Aunt Monica and Jeff are still here, just about. Together, ferocious, funny and haunted by the ghosts of the past, they laugh, they scrap, they remember.


Number of Characters: 5


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 4


Length (in Pages): 140


Location: West Midlands


Key Words: Drama, Comedy, Family, Ghosts, Working class, Psychogeography, and Memory


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


Award nominations/wins: Winner of the Papatango Prize, 2022


Reviews:

'Creepy and captivating... there is something utterly invigorating about Judd's writing: it is funny, delicate, assured, pleasurably circuitous... a truly exciting discovery with what feels like a quietly radical new form of genre-defying theatre' — Guardian.

 

'Engaging, empathetic and spooky, with a beautiful pattern of slow revelation... Papatango has once again identified a talent worth watching' — Evening Standard.

 

'A hauntingly beautiful drama of family secrets... has a strange, captivating power... lyrical and elegiac... Judd deftly uses the uncanny to tell a very human, very flesh-and-blood story... unsettling and rather beautiful' — The Stage.

 

'Full of humour and heart ... [Judd has] a great deal of writing talent' — Reviews Hub.

 

'Excellent... an absorbing and moving play that deals intelligently with ideas of memory, seen and unseen connections, and the difficulties of articulating feelings... highly recommended' —Everything Theatre

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