List of fictional plays

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

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Fictional plays

• A Matter of Wife and Death - a fictional play by Ray Cooney, featured in Spitting Image
• 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 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 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).
• Hamlet 2
• Happiest Days of Your Wife - a fictional play by Ray Cooney, featured in Spitting Image
• Heaven & Hell- Fictitious play by Max Fischer in Rushmore
• Il Fortissimo Flabbermeister - fictional opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, featured in Spitting Image
• 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
• 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
• Springtime For Hitler - A play made to insult all creeds, races and religions in order to deliberately flop and make an award-winning moneymaking scam in the movie The Producers.
• 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's 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 - 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

See also

• Play within a play
• List of fictional musical works