Abortive
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
First Staged:
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 1971

Abortive

By Caryl Churchill
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

A couple in bed discuss the effect on them of the woman's recent abortion.

Originally written for radio, Caryl Churchill's short play Abortive was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1971.

Also by Caryl Churchill:

A Mouthful of Birds
Ding Dong the Wicked
This is a Chair
Caryl Churchill: Shorts
Three Short Plays
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.
The Skriker
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
Blue Heart
Icecream
Pigs and Dogs
Escaped Alone
Caryl Churchill Plays: Five
Thyestes
Beautiful Eyes
Caryl Churchill Plays: Three
Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen
What If If Only
The Judge's Wife
Seagulls
Love and Information
Air
A Number
Seven Jewish Children
A Dream Play
Three More Sleepless Nights
The After-Dinner Joke
Here We Go
Far Away
Bliss
Schreber's Nervous Illness
Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?
Hotel
Lovesick
Cloud Nine
Tickets are Now On Sale
Lives of the Great Poisoners
Traps
Caryl Churchill Plays: Four
War and Peace Gaza Piece
Mad Forest
Hot Fudge

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