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Big and Little (German: Groß und klein) is a 1978 play by German writer Botho Strauß. It is a station drama in ten scenes and follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world . The play has the subtitle Scenes (Szenen) and has also been performed in English as Big and Small.

It premiered on 8 December 1978 at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in West Berlin, directed by Peter Stein and starring Edith Clever. It was broadcast as a German television play in 1980. Other TV versions include a 1995 Portuguese language adaptation that was cut to 1 hour and 20 minutes, and a 1998 episode of Poland's Teatr Telewizji, which starred Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska as Lotte, and similarly trimmed the runtime to 1 hour 25 minute.

The play has also been titled Great and Small, as was the case for a 1983 British production which starred Glenda Jackson.