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Abortive

Cast: 1f 1m

Staging: A bed

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
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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.

Cast: 1f 1m

Staging:A bed

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
Tags:

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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