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Pun-Based Titles in theatre.


  • The Chicago-based improv comedy troupe The Second City was fond of giving their shows titles such as "We Made A Mesopotamia, Now You Clean It Up".


  • In Shakespeare's day, "nothing" and "noting" were pronounced identically. The Hero/Claudio plot in Much Ado About Nothing is in large part about the importance of reputation (i.e., of how you are "noted".)
  • Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, in which people are lying about the identity and it is important to some of them that they find a certain person called, well, take a guess...
    • Several translations supply Woolseyisms of the title based on similar adjectives that are also men's first names, such as French L'importance d'être Constant, Catalan La importància de ser Frank, and German Ernst sein ist alles.
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a pun on "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
  • Westeros: An American Musical: This the case for several of the musical's songs: "More Than Jest Friends" (jester + more than just friends), "Hisstorically Inaccurate" (a snake's hiss + historically inaccurate), "The Dorne Identity" (Dorne + The Bourne Identity), "Shae No To This" (Shae + "Say No To This"), "A H(e)art Inflamed", "Stark to Finish" (Stark + start to finish) and "Congratshaelations" (Shae + "Congratulations").


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