 A play within a play also occurs in the musical "The King and I", where Princess Tuptim and the royal dancers give a performance of "Small House of Uncle Thomas" (or "Uncle Tom's Cabin") to their English guests.The play mirrors Tuptim's situation, as she wishes to run away from slavery to be with her lover, Lun Tha.In stagings of Dina Rubina's play "Always the Same Dream", the story is about staging a school play based on a poem by Pushkin.