Abortive
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
First Staged:
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 1971

Abortive

By Caryl Churchill
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

A couple in bed discuss the effect on them of the woman's recent abortion.

Originally written for radio, Caryl Churchill's short play Abortive was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1971.

Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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