List of fictitious plays

This is a list of fictitious plays, not including musicals.

Fictitious plays

  • Abraham L - a contemporary community theatre production in the episode "Lincoln Lover" of American Dad! AbOUT Abraham Lincoln
  • La Cocina - An Off-Broadway play which George Constanza claimed to have written in the Seinfeld episode "The Pitch"
  • The Courier's Tragedy - Richard Wharfinger's Jacobean revenge play in The Crying of Lot 49
  • Dark Penguin, Geese Aplenty, and A Cyst For Gus, all fictitious plays written by tortured Kafkaesque playwrights in stories by Woody Allen
  • Deathtrap - fictional play in the play and movie Deathtrap
  • The Enchanted Hunters - Clare Quilty's play in Lolita
  • The Good Soldiers - (derivative and poor) play by Osterling in Doctor Who: Theatre of War, believed to be a lost classic
  • I Want to be Your Canary - play from Final Fantasy IX written by Lord Avon. It is preformed by the protagonists at the beginning and the end of the game.
  • In the Future, there will be Robots - play from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City with the fictional character Claude Maginot (his name rhymes with badge)
  • The King in Yellow - play within the book The King in Yellow
  • The King of Ankh - play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters
  • Lincoln Lover - another community theatre production from an episode of the same name of American Dad! about Abraham Lincoln, this time created by Stan Smith
  • Loveless - stage play in Final Fantasy VII currently showing in Midgar.
  • Maine-ly [...] - stage adaption of [...] Comes to Maine by J.B. Fletcher in [...], She Wrote
  • MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON - play written by Andy Milonakis on The Andy Milonakis Show. About Astroboy helping the Rooster-headed Chicken get rid of Sloomeramy beasts out of Galacta-Corn.
  • The [...] of Gonzago or The Mousetrap - the play in Hamlet which the Prince uses to "catch the conscience of the King".
  • A Night of Kings, aka The Lancre Play - the propaganda play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters which hews closer to Macbeth than the actual events, but inadvertently captures the conscience of the Duke.
  • Nobody Said It'd Be Easy - Three-hour, one-man show by Mark Hentemann, Family Guy
  • Nothing On - the play-within-a-play in Noises Off
  • Nutrition and the Four Food Groups - an elementary school production in Calvin and Hobbes
  • Peter Griffin Presents: The King and I - Peter Griffin's heavily rewritten version of The Famous play in which Griffin plays A.N.N.A., a robot sent to overthrow the tyrannical King and his "all-female [...] orgy." Family Guy
  • Pyramus and Thisbe - a "merry and tragical", "tedious and brief" work by Peter Quince, starring Bottom the Weaver - A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Return to the Love Canal - A play in the movie Tootsie about a couple that returns to Love Canal.
  • Steven Seagal Presents a One Man Salute to Steven Seagal - Late Night with Conan O’Brien
  • The Taming of the Vole - play by Hwel in Lords and Ladies, the title parodie The Taming of the Shrew, but it's based on events similar to A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Third Leg - from Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
  • A Wizard of Sorts, or Please Yourself - play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters
  • The Wrinkled Old Family Retainer - Kilgore Trout's only drama (Timequake)
  • Why Don't You Like Me?: A Bitter Woman's Journey Through Life - one-woman show from Friends
  • The Lusty Argonian Maid - a short farce proposed in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

See also

  • Play within a play
  • List of fictional musical works

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