An exercise for the class

[stillsostrange]

I need names for made-up plays. Especially comedies--by which I mean both light and funny as well as ending happily. So far I have several tragedies, but nothing happy or amusing.

The plays so far are:

Astrophel & Satis, the tragic love story of a lace-maker and a sorceress who defy society to be together, only to be parted by human and inhuman jealousy.

Aristomache, the story of a priestess seduced and betrayed by a prince, and how she exacts vengeance from beyond the grave.

Mirror of Dreams, the story of a cursed mirror that causes the downfall of a powerful house by playing on their ambitions, with the primary focus usually given to the mirror demon's seduction of the lord's daughter.

I've also mentioned Undine, which is clearly about a water spirit and probably ends badly, but I don't know the plot of that one.

Can anyone think of some more cheerful performances for Erisinian theatres?

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Ondine! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondine_%28ballet%29) With the bonus that the female title character does *not* die.

Comedies: The Imaginary Magician. The Enchanted Pear-tree. Cecily and the Elephants.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Well, there's Cholorin's Lament, where the old man Cholorin is perpetually grumbling about his life and all the terrible choices he's made - except that what we actually see is how well those choices have worked out for all those lucky enough to have been involved in his life, and he's the only one who really can't see it. It's a sort of reverse-Cassandra effect (and yes, it really truly is a comedy: he wouldn't be happy if he wasn't grumbling about what an unhappy man he is).

[mmaresca.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun.

A Trio of Travelers Called Tristan- A wacky mistaken identity story like A Comedy of Errors.

A Manor of Moonlit Maidens- A bawdy comedy, if not downright smutty.

Lord Gorman's Ghostly Wives- Since ghosts are real there, I think a play about a lord being hassled by multiple dead wives could be hysterical.

[nathreee.livejournal.com]

The Emperor's Tailor - a farce about an emperor who orders his tailor to make him disguises so he can go off into the streets and flirt with a common girl who must not know that he's the emperor.

The Other Prince - a farce about a queen who wants to substitute the illegitimate son of the king by a commoner who looks just like him, so that she can rule the kingdom through him.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Her Grace's Bad Ideas, aka Les Liaisons dangereuses played for laughs.

[curgoth]

The Seduction of the Turnip - a Taming of the Shrew style romp with a fiery noblewoman drawing passion from a bland, disinterested merchant prince.

Black Night's Horrors - a zany tale of mistaken identity and unrequited love. With zombies. Possibly named for some Samhain-ish holiday.

Ataxos the King - the tale of a poor, witless man who finds a brilliant talking horse, and their madcap rise to fictional monarchy.

[pjthompson]

Fennis and Funch - Lachrymose Lady Fennis can't stop crying--in fact, unbeknownst to her or her family she's been cursed by Balstan the Wizard whose offer of marriage she rejected. And she's not getting any other marriage offers with the constant waterworks. Along comes Funch, the family shoemaker, a homely, height-challenged craftsman with one very important ability: he's the only one who can make Lady Fennis laugh. A bawdy romance in which true worth of character wins out over evil wizardry.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

The Bawdy Bridge, or, the Kingdom of the Birds, the story of a bumbling idiot who hits upon the idea of building a bridge to the clouds and setting himself up as king of the birds, bats, and other flying creatures. And putting a tax on rain. Complete with many scurrilous jokes and low political humour.

The Twins Menaechmus - the story of foundling twins, separated at birth and raised in different families, and the twists and turns of fortune and mistaken identity which ensue when their paths finally cross.

[opera142.livejournal.com]

The Seduction of the Turnip I would see this.