List of fictitious plays
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This is a list of fictitious plays, not including musicals.
- Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
[edit] Fictitious 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
- 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 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 - 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.
- 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 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- 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 The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
