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