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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:

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

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