List of fictional plays

This is a list of fictional plays, not including musicals. These plays exist only within other works of fiction.

Fictional plays

*"Abraham L" - a contemporary community theatre production in the episode "Lincoln Lover" of "American Dad!" about Abraham Lincoln
*"The Carriage of Catherine" - a play mentioned frequently by a radio DJ in the PC game "The Movies"
*"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
*"The Death of the Pharaoh" - play which is performed in "Born to be King", an episode of "The Black Adder", rewritten as "The Death of the Scotsman"
*"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 "", believed to be a lost classic
*"I Want to be Your Canary" - play from "Final Fantasy IX" written by Lord Avon. It is performed by the protagonists at the beginning and the end of the game.
*"In the Future, there will be Robots" - play from "" with the fictional character Claude Maginot (his name rhymes with badge)
*"The King in Yellow" - play within the book "The King in Yellow"
*"King Leer" - fictitious play by Max Byalistock, poster visible in his room in "The Producers" (2005 version).
*"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 Murder" - stage adaption of "Murder Comes to Maine" by J.B. Fletcher in "Murder, 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 Murder 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"
*"Patrick & Noria" a poster seen in "Bioshock"
*"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 sex 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.
*"Rochelle, Rochelle" - Stage adaptation of a fictional movie of the same name in " Seinfeld", starring Bette Midler.
*"Springtime For Hitler" - A play made to insult all creeds, races and religions in order to deliberatley flop and make an awardwinning moneymaking scam in the movie "The Producers".
*"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 ""
*"When Cousins Marry" - fictitious play by Max Byalistock, poster visible in his room in "The Producers" (2005 version).
*"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 ""

ee also

*Play within a play
*List of fictional musical works