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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:

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

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