Besides The Blue Macushla by Tom Murphy, I can think of one other play that sets the story within a Noir aesthetic. This is Arthur Kopit's The End of the World (thank you Peter for introducing me to that one years ago). I am wondering if you can think of any other plays, written in the late 1970s or early 1980s is preferable but not necessary. I'm curious. I couldn't think of anything else, but I also have an admittedly limited experience/knowledge of plays. (I can think of plays that utilize a reference, especially to the vamp or to the Private Investigator/Humphrey Bogart character, in order to make a moment work.)
So there's your homework, folks! Send me the titles and references of which you are aware incorporating a Film Noir aesthetic into theatre. Even the deliberate moments of reference are appropriate to send my way. All of it will build a network of reference and cultural awareness that will strengthen my paper (see entry).
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A musical may not count, and I may not fully comprehend a film noir aesthetic, but "City of Angels" is a candidate I'd put forth, and so I have.
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