Editing Story within a story (section)

==== Play within a film ====
The 2001 film ''[[Moulin Rouge!]]'' features a fictitious musical within a film, called "Spectacular Spectacular". The 1942 [[Ernst Lubitsch]] comedy [[To Be or Not to Be (1942 film)|''To Be or Not to Be'']] confuses the audience in the opening scenes with a play, "The Naughty Nazis", about Adolf Hitler which appears to be taking place within the actual plot of the film. Thereafter, the acting company players serve as the protagonists of the film and frequently use acting/costumes to deceive various characters in the film. ''[[Hamlet]]'' also serves as an important throughline in the film, as suggested by the title. [[Laurence Olivier]] sets the opening scene of his 1944 film of [[Henry V (1944 film)|''Henry V'']] in the [[Green room|tiring room]] of the old [[Globe Theatre]] as the actors prepare for their roles on stage. The early part of the film follows the actors in these "stage" performances and only later does the action almost imperceptibly expand to the full realism of the [[Battle of Agincourt]]. By way of increasingly more artificial sets (based on mediaeval paintings) the film finally returns to The Globe.

[[Mel Brooks]]' film [[The Producers (1968 film)|''The Producers'']] revolves around a scheme to make money by producing a disastrously bad Broadway musical, ''Springtime for Hitler.''  Ironically the film itself was later made into its own Broadway musical (although a more intentionally successful one). The [[Outkast]] music video for the song "Roses" is a short film about a high school musical. In [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010 film)|''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'']], the middle-schoolers put on a play of [[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|''The Wizard of Oz'']], while ''[[High School Musical]]'' is a romantic comedy about the eponymous musical itself. A high school production is also featured in the gay teen romantic comedy ''[[Love, Simon]]''.

A 2012 Italian film, ''[[Caesar Must Die]]'', stars real-life Italian prisoners who rehearse Shakespeare's [[Julius Caesar (play)|''Julius Caesar'']] in [[Rebibbia]] prison playing ''fictional'' Italian prisoners rehearsing the same play in the same prison. In addition, the film itself becomes a ''Julius Caesar'' adaption of sorts as the scenes are frequently acted all around the prison, outside of rehearsals, and the prison life becomes indistinguishable from the play.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/mar/03/caesar-must-die-review-philip-french | title=Caesar Must die – review| newspaper=The Guardian| date=2013-03-03| last1=French| first1=Philip}}</ref>

The main plot device in ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' is an opera which is going to be held the night of the events of the film. All of the principal characters of the film play a role in the opera, though the audience watching the opera is unaware that some of the events portrayed are more than drama. The 1990 biopic [[Korczak (film)|''Korczak'']], about the last days of a Jewish children's orphanage in Nazi occupied Poland, features an amateur production of [[Rabindranath Tagore]]'s ''The Post Office'', which was selected by the orphanage's visionary leader as a way of preparing his charges for their own impending death. That same production is also featured in the stage play ''Korczak's Children,'' also inspired by the same historical events.