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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:

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

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