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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

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:

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

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