Plays to perform
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

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

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

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

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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