Plays to perform
Schreber's Nervous Illness

Cast: 3-4m plus 3 or more f/m

Staging: Minimal staging requirements

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, 1972

Schreber's Nervous Illness

By Caryl Churchill
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

A short play based on the memoirs of a judge who spent ten years in asylums as a schizophrenic.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1972.

Cast: 3-4m plus 3 or more f/m

Staging:Minimal staging requirements

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:

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

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