| MURDERINTHE | And 17 TS Eliot play first performed in 1935 (6,2,3,9) |
| CATHEDRAL | TS Eliot play first performed in 1935 (6,2,3,9) |
| MURDERINTHECATHEDRAL | T S Eliot verse drama first performed in 1935 |
| MRSWARRENSPROFESSION | George Bernard Shaw stage play first performed in 1902 |
| PORGY | --- And Bess, opera first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward (5) |
| THECATHEDRAL | T S Eliot verse drama first performed in 1935 (6,2,3,9) |
| MURDERIN | T S Eliot verse drama first performed in 1935 (6,2,3,9) |
| EPIGLOTTIS | TS Eliot play with animal in a flap (10) |
| LITOTES | Ts Eliot play shows understatement (7) |
| THEMASTER | And 16 Henrik Ibsen stage play first performed in 1893 (3,6,7) |
| THEDUMBWAITER | Harold Pinter stage play first performed in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1959 |
| GUNMAN | and 22ac, see 6ac, Sean O'Casey stage play first performed in 1923 |
| CANDIDA | George Bernard Shaw stage play first performed in 1895 in South Shields |
| THESHADOWOFA | and 12ac, Sean O'Casey stage play first performed in 1923 |
| ARMS | _ and the Man, George Bernard Shaw comedy play first performed in 1894 (4) |
| REDROSES | and 8ac, Sean O'Casey stage play first performed in 1943 (3,5,3,2) |
| THEDUMB | Harold Pinter stage play first performed in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1959 (3,4,6) (See 9A) |
| WAITER | Harold Pinter stage play first performed in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1959 (3,4,6) (See 1A) |
| EARNEST | The Importance of Being ____ , play first performed in 1895 in which Lady Bracknell features (7) |
| SEAGULL | The ?, Anton Chekhov stage play first performed in 1896 (7) |