List of works for the theatre portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors

Plays
Plays with a child sexual abuse/pedophile theme (man & boy) or content include:
 * Afterbirth by Dave Florez
 * The Child-Killer: Portrait of Paedophile
 * Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley
 * The Fastest Clock In The Universe by Philip Ridley
 * Coming up to his thirtieth birthday, Cougar Glass sets out to seduce 16-year-old schoolboy Foxtrot Darling


 * The Lying Kind, by Anthony Neilson
 * The Sugar Syndrome, by Lucy Prebble
 * La Ville dont le Prince est un Enfant, The Fire that Burns by Henry de Montherlant

In Ancient Greece, where pederastic and pedophilic relationships were viewed very differently than today, many works touched on the relationships of men with boys. Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles wrote plays on the subject and the poets Alcaeus, Anacreon, Ibycus, Pindar, Solon, Sappho and Theognis of Megara all composed poetry praising the love of boys.

Plays with a child sexual abuse/pedophile theme (man & girl) or content include:


 * Alice, a play for television, by Dennis Potter, based on the life of Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll
 * Frozen, by Bryony Lavery
 * How I learnt to drive by Paula Vogel
 * Lolita by Edward Albee adapted from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
 * Masks and Mirrors, written and performed by Roberta Nobleman
 * Motortown, by Simon Stephens
 * Nymphs & Shepherds (A Paedophile's Life), by David Mines
 * Short Eyes, by Miguel Pinero

Plays with a child sexual abuse/pedophile theme (woman & girl) or content include:
 * The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler: the early version of the monologue entitled "The Little Coochie Snorcher that Could"

Musicals

 * The Color Purple produced by Oprah Winfrey based on The Color Purple by Alice Walker
 * Love Jerry by Megan Gogerty
 * Lolita My Love by Alan Jay Lerner, adapted from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Opera

 * Death in Venice by Benjamin Britten, based on Death in Venice by Thomas Mann