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Schreber's Nervous Illness
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
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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.

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

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

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