Plays
| Title | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Penelope | 01960-01-011960 | Later revised as Happy Birthday, Wanda June and reprinted in 1970. Adapted as a film in 1971 |
| Very First Christmas Morning !The Very First Christmas Morning | 01962-12-14December 14, 1962 | Published in Better Homes and Gardens |
| Fortitude | 01968-09-01September 1968 | One act, published in Playboy; collected in Human-Machines: An Anthology of Stories About Cyborgs, New York: Vintage, 1975. Adapted in episode five of the television series Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House |
| Requiem | 01987-01-011987 | With music by Edgar David Grana |
| Make Up Your Mind | 01993-01-011993 | |
| Miss Temptation | 01993-01-011993 | Adapted by David Cooperman |
| L'Histoire du Soldat | 01993-01-011993 | A reworked libretto that Vonnegut made into a tale about World War II Private Eddie Slovik, the first soldier in the United States military to be executed for desertion since the Civil War. |
Read more about this topic: Kurt Vonnegut Bibliography
Famous quotes containing the word plays:
“At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. With Shakespeare it is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.
RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”