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:

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

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