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[edit]

A Matter of Wife and Death - a fictional play by Ray Cooney, featured in Spitting Image
An American Marriage - A fictional play by Stewie Griffin, featured in Family Guy
A Passing Fancy - A fictional play by Brian Griffin, featured in Family Guy
Abraham L - a contemporary community theatre production in the episode "Lincoln Lover" of American Dad! about Abraham Lincoln
Another Load of Old Crap With the Word Wife in the Title - a fictional play by Ray Cooney, featured in Spitting Image
Bare Ruined Choirs – the titular character's Broadway hit in Barton Fink
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 Costanza 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 fictional 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 Gadfly - fictional ancient Greek play, appears in Geoffrey Trease's The Hills of Varna and The Crown of Violet
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 performed 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
King Leer - fictional play produced by Max Bialystock, poster visible in his room in The Producers (2005 version).
Happiest Days of Your Wife - a fictional play by Ray Cooney, featured in Spitting Image
Heaven & Hell- fictional play by Max Fischer in Rushmore
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
Mazulem the Night Owl - stage play, allegedly written by Helen America, from The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
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
Please, Mama, Don't Eat the Government Cheese - In Living Color
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.
Rhapsody and Requiem - play by Diane Chambers in Frasier, based on her time at Cheers.
Rochelle, Rochelle - Stage adaptation of a fictional movie of the same name in Seinfeld, starring Bette Midler.

Sky Lark, off-off-... play in Robert B. Parker's Small Vices
Star Crossed - play by Hwel in Unseen Academicals, Discword version of Romeo and Juliet
Self-Raising Flower – a play by Saffy, based on her early life, in Absolutely Fabulous.
Steven Seagal Presents a One Man Salute to Steven Seagal - Late Night with Conan O'Brien
That's Wife - a fictional play by Ray Cooney, featured in Spitting Image
The Taming of the Vole - play by Hwel in Lords and Ladies, the title parodies The Taming of the Shrew, but it is based on events similar to A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Third Leg - from Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Watch Out, Archbishop, There's a Naked Nun Under the Settee - a fictional play by Ray Cooney, featured in Spitting Image
When Cousins Marry - fictional play produced by Max Bialystock, 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
You're a Rat Bastard Charlie Brown - Saturday Night Live

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