Precursors of the non-realistic theater: playwrights to be included are Jarry, Apollinaire, and Cocteau. Surrealism: plays by Vitrac. Theater of ideas: playwrights are Anouilh, Giraudoux, Sartre. Theater of the absurd: playwrights are Beckett, Adamov, Arrabal, Ionesco, and Genet.