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Abortive

Cast: 1f 1m

Staging: A bed

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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:

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

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