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:

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

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