The King In Yellow, a fictional play frequently mentioned in the weird short stories of Robert W Chambers, crops up repeatedly.
"So I'm drawing on real things, but ultimately I've written a fictional play," he says.
In one wittily effective case, playwright Dennis Kelly fooled audiences into thinking that a fictional play about a woman accused of murdering her baby was a real documentary drama.
For instance, Sarah makes "truth-based" art, but the only time she seems honest about herself is when she is brainstorming an idea for a fictional play.
As well as being the title of Chambers' book, The King in Yellow is also the name of a fictional play which is referred to throughout the 10 short stories that make up the volume.
I have structured the piece around the making of a fictional play that resembles "The Member of the Wedding" and try to touch all the central writerly and psychological issues in Carson's work.
Coherent narratives, even if ultimately fictional, play important intelligibility-conferring roles in the lives of transsexuals, according to Prosser.
Her life was the subject of China Doll, The Imagined Life of an American Actress, an award-winning fictional play written by Elizabeth Wong in 1995.
He was a rumpled sportswriter (is there another kind?) Of course he was fictional played on television of Jack Klugman who died in December at the age of 90.
On that eve, I attended the staged reading of a new fictional play by Fulbright award- winning playwright, Rosary Hartel O'Neill -- Plane Love.
