List of fictional plays

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

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Fictional plays

• 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 by Max Byalistock, 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.
• Rochelle, Rochelle - Stage adaptation of a fictional movie of the same name in Seinfeld, starring Bette Midler.
• 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 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 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• You're a Rat Bastard Charlie Brown - Saturday Night Live

See also

• Play within a play
• List of fictional musical works
• List of fictional musicals