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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:

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

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