List of plays with anti-war themes

An anti-war play is a play that is perceived as having an anti-war theme.

Some plays that are thought of as anti-war plays are:

Peace (421 BCE) - by Aristophanes
The Trojan Women (415 BCE) - Euripides
Lysistrata (411 BCE) - Aristophanes
Journey's End (1928) - R. C. Sherriff
The Silver Tassie (1929) - Seán O'Casey
Post Mortem (1930) - Noël Coward
For Services Rendered (1932) - Somerset Maugham
The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1935) - Jean Giraudoux
Bury the Dead (1936) - Irwin Shaw
Idiot's Delight (1936) - Robert E. Sherwood
Hooray for What! (1937)
The White Disease (1937) - Karel Čapek
The Mother (1938) - Karel Čapek
Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) - Bertolt Brecht
Schweik in the Second World War (1943) - Bertolt Brecht
Andha Yug (1954) - Dharamvir Bharati
Oh, What a Lovely War! (1961) - Charles Chilton
US (1966) - collaboration
Viet Rock (1966) - rock musical by Megan Terry
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1967) - Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, music by Galt MacDermot
Botticelli (1968) - Terrence McNally
Bringing It All Back Home (1969) - Terrence McNally
The Watering Place (1969) - Lyle Kessler
G. R. Point (1977) - David Berry
Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987) - Robert Anton Wilson
No-No Boy (2010) - Ken Narasaki

Anti-war movement and peace

Opposition to wars or aspects of war	Afghan War American Civil War Iraq War Landmines Military action in Iran Military intervention in Libya Military taxation Nuclear armament Second Boer War Sri Lankan Civil War Vietnam War War of 1812 War on Terror World War I World War II

Agents of opposition	Anti-nuclear organizations Anti-war movement Anti-war organizations Bed-In Central Park be-ins Conscientious objectors Counterculture Draft evasion Human Be-In List of peace activists Peace and conflict studies Peace camp Peace churches Peace commission Peace education Peace movement Peace walk Teach-in War resisters War tax resisters

Related ideologies	Ahimsa Anarcho-pacifism Anarcho-punks Anti-imperialism Anti-nuclear movement Antimilitarism Appeasement Christian anarchism Direct action Finvenkismo Hippie Isolationism Non-interventionism Nonkilling Nonviolence Pacificism Pacifism Satyagraha Simple living Socialism Soviet influence on the peace movement

Media and cultural	Art Books Films International Day of Non-Violence International Day of Peace List of places named Peace Monuments and memorials Peace journalism Peace News Plays Promoting Enduring Peace Songs Symbols

Countries	Canada Germany Israel Netherlands Spain United Kingdom United States

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