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:

  • The Watering Place by Lyle Kessler
  • Lysistrata - Aristophanes
  • The Trojan War Will Not Take Place - Jean Giraudoux
  • Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
  • Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, Music by Galt MacDermot
  • No-No Boy - Ken Narasaki
Anti-war
Opposition to wars
or aspects of war
  • Military action in Iran
  • 2011 military intervention in Libya
  • Iraq War
  • War in Afghanistan
  • War on Terrorism
  • Sri Lankan Civil War
  • Landmines
  • Vietnam War
  • Nuclear armament
  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Second Boer War
  • American Civil War
  • War of 1812
Agents of opposition
  • Anti-war organizations
  • Anti-nuclear organizations
  • Conscientious objectors
  • Draft dodgers
  • Peace activists
  • Peace movement
  • Peace churches
  • Peace camp
  • War resisters
  • War tax resisters
Related ideologies
  • Anarcho-pacifism
  • Anti-imperialism
  • Antimilitarism
  • Anti-nuclear movement
  • Appeasement
  • Christian anarchism
  • Direct action
  • Hippie
  • Isolationism
  • Non-interventionism
  • Nonviolence
  • Nonkilling
  • Pacificism
  • Pacifism
  • Satyagraha
  • Simple living
  • Socialism
  • Soviet influence on the peace movement
  • Peace punks
Media
  • Art
  • Books
  • Films
  • Songs
  • Symbols

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