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The Judge's Wife
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
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Broadcast on BBC 2, 1972

The Judge's Wife

By Caryl Churchill
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
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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.

Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
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Also by Caryl Churchill:

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

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