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 BC) - by Aristophanes
• The Trojan Women (415 BC) - Euripides
• Lysistrata (411 BC) - Aristophanes
• Journey's End (1928) - R. C. Sherriff
• The Silver Tassie (1929) - Seán O'Casey
• The Rumour by C.K.Munro 1929 at the Royal Court Theatre produced by Hilda Dallas
• 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
• Nemesis (1944) - Nurul Momen
• All My Sons (1947) - Arthur Miller
• Andha Yug (1954) - Dharamvir Bharati
• The Hostage (1958) - Brendan Behan
• 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
• The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1969) - Robert E. Lee & Jerome Lawrence
• G. R. Point (1977) - David Berry
• Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987) - Robert Anton Wilson
• No-No Boy (2010) - Ken Narasaki