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Schreber's Nervous Illness
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
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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.

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

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

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