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

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
First Staged:
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

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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