The most unlikely hit of this past season in London's West End was "Tom & Clem," an ensemble piece about a fictional encounter between Prime Minister Clement Attlee and the left-wing journalist Tom Driberg during the 1945 Potsdam Conference.
Each woman is also obsessed by the other: aside from their famously fictional encounter at Fotheringay, Icke even has Mary appear in palpable form to the conscience-troubled Elizabeth, and the two women exchange a hesitant kiss.
Mr. Saranga, as The Lede reported last year, was one of the first Israeli officials to help publicize a hoax in which an actor pretending to be a liberal Israeli video blogger recounted what turned out to be a fictional encounter with the organizers of the Gaza flotilla movement.
The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett Bennett's fictional encounter between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten is staged within another play, in which actors are rehearsing Caliban's Day, inspired by Auden's The Sea and the Mirror, and featuring the meeting of these two famous men.
The lucidity Howard then brought to 55 Days (2012) at Hampstead theatre, with Douglas Henshall's Cromwell in fictional encounter with Mark Gatiss's King Charles I, represented the art of stage direction at its most refined: complex information conveyed without effort, profound emotion conveyed without sentiment.
At times bets were placed on matches that did not even happen, such as the notorious ghost game between the Under-21 sides of Turkmenistan and the Maldives when a local 'spotter' employed by bookmakers filed regular dispatches on an entirely fictional encounter.
"Voodoo" describes a fictional encounter between Ice-T and an old woman with a voodoo doll.
In Winter of the Fisher, Cameron Langford relates a fictional encounter between a fisher and an aging recluse living in the forest.
