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:

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

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