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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:

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

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