Shadowplay Explained

Shadow play refers to shadow puppetry or shadow theatre.

Shadowplay, Shadow Play or The Shadow Play may refer to:

Literature

• Shadowplay (novel), 2007 novel by Tad Williams
• Shadowplay, 1990 novel by Jo Clayton
• Shadowplay, 1993 novel by Nigel Findley
• Shadowplay, 2005 graphic novel series by Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith, Christina Z
• Shadowplay, 2010 novel by Karen Campbell
• Shadowplay, 2014 novel by Laura Lam
• Shadowplay, 2019 novel by Joseph O'Connor
• Shadow Play (play), 1935 play by Noël Coward
• Shadow Play, 1993 novel by Charles Baxter
• "Shadow Play" (Look and Read) (2004), the last story of Look and Read

Film

• Shadow Play (film), a 1986 TV movie
• The Shadow Play (1992 film), a Turkish film directed by Yavuz Turgul
• The Shadow Play (2018 film), Chinese film directed by Lou Ye
• Shadowplay (2022 film), a 2022 Czech film directed by Peter Bebjak

Television

• "Shadow Play", an episode of Doctor Who Confidential that accompanies "Silence in the Library"
• "Shadow Play" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
• "Shadow Play" (The Twilight Zone, 1959), an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Dennis Weaver
• "Shadow Play" (The Twilight Zone, 1985), an episode of The Twilight Zone and a remake of the 1961 episode
• , also released as The Defeated (2020), a TV series about the aftermath of World War II
• "Shadowplay" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Other uses

• Shadow Play (horse), world record-holding Standardbred racehorse
• Nvidia Shadowplay, hardware accelerated screen recording by Nvidia
• ShadowPlay, the first WiiWare game to use Wii MotionPlus
• "Shadowplay" (song), a song originally by Joy Division
• "Shadow Play", a song by Rory Gallagher from the album Photo-Finish
• "Shadow Play", a rock band from Milton Keynes, UK

See also

• Shadowplayers, title of both a 2006 documentary film and a 2010 book by James Nice
• Shadow Plays, an album by Craig Taborn