The Judge's Wife
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
First Staged:
Broadcast on BBC 2, 1972

The Judge's Wife

By Caryl Churchill
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

A short play about justice and retribution, first seen as a BBC television drama.

When a Judge passes a harsh sentence on a young man, he sets in train a series of events that call into question his ultimate purpose: was he a reactionary, or a revolutionary?

Originally written for television, Caryl Churchill's The Judge's Wife was first broadcast on BBC 2 in October 1972.

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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