About me

I write scripts and fiction as Neville Judson but I'm know day to day as Philip.  Scripts for the stage currently include monologues (ranging in length from a couple of minutes to an hour) and one act plays and I have plays for radio ranging from a few minutes to an hour.  Several of my stage works have been performed professionally, including broadcast of some of them and of one or two short stories.

My Plays

Caring Society


Synopsis:

At some future time climbing has been declared illegal and a surprising transgressor appears in court - a spider.


Number of Characters: 5


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5


Length (in Pages): 4


Location: Court room


Key Words: surreal comedy, court room drama, ten minute sketch


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Hanging On


Synopsis:

J. Menlove Edwards, pioneer rock climber, looks back on the highs and lows of his life as he prepares to end it. A challenging monologue containing action as well as speech and with a dark ending. Based on fact.


Number of Characters: 1


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1


Length (in Pages): 12


Location: A room in a 1950s house


Key Words: LGBTQ+, mental health mismanagement, one hour monologue


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Passing On


Synopsis:

Laugh out loud comedy but with more moving themes woven into it.
Can the Benfleet family business of funeral directors survive diversification? What can go wrong when they expand from providing only Christian burials, to offering cremations, and delivering services to humanists, Hindus, and Muslims?


Number of Characters: 5


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5


Length (in Pages): 40


Location: The board room of a funeral directors' business


Key Words: black comedy, family tensions, female takes control


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Pull the Other One


Synopsis:

Three church bells plan industrial action.


Number of Characters: 3


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3


Length (in Pages): 6


Location: Requires no set


Key Words: Surreal comedy, ten minute sketch


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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The Barrier


Synopsis:

Two couples meet after not seeing each other for twenty years. The women are shocked and the men disorientated as the true cause of the rift is revealed (the men slept together on the night before the wedding of one of them and he, not actually gay, has been troubled by guilt ever since). Reconciliation at the end.


Number of Characters: 4


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 4


Length (in Pages): 21


Location: Guest house in Tenby


Key Words: LGBTQ+


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


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The Company Unlimited


Synopsis:

A small group of people do not understand why they find themselves applying for the same job in strange circumstances. It becomes apparent that they all face their afterlife.


Number of Characters: 5


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5


Length (in Pages): 23


Location: Lobby of a modern company


Key Words: life choices, human relationships


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Thistle


Synopsis:

Step into the control room as a thistle fights for survival. Seed dispersal (the launching of parachutists) is interrupted by a storm and then the thistle meets dreaded fate under attack from a donkey.


Number of Characters: 5


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3


Length (in Pages): 24


Location: This is a radio play and so no set is required. (Note: crowd sounds are needed in addition to the 5 main characters)


Key Words: surreal comedy, radio play


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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View from the Prom


Synopsis:

Three women - mother, daughter, and granddaughter - sit on a bench overlooking the beach in Tenby. As they watch the holiday-makers and discuss their future, it becomes less clear that the mother's dementia has developed as far as it at first seems.


Number of Characters: 3


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3


Length (in Pages): 15


Location: Bench ono the promenade in Tenby


Key Words: Family obligations, dementia vs memories from the past


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? Yes


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Harrogate/York/Leeds

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