Abstract: During the Russian Silver Age of freedom, pluralism, Futurist Theater, which was mainly represented by the plays of V. V. Mayakovsky, Velemir Khlebnikov, had some obvious avant-garde characteristics, demonstrated a distinctive discourse experiment, a strong utopian imagination. In its experimental innovation of language, rhetoric, Futurist Theater subverted, reorganized the traditional language organization, discourse structure through the defamiliarization of language, the actualization of metaphor. In its adaptation of theme, plot, Futurist Theater reversed the theme of Symbolist Theater, adapted the inner core of the classic drama texts, imitated, with some variations, the theme of traditional literature. Its imaginary writing about the future world, Futurist Theater based its writing on the salience of personality, awareness of values, fully embracing the enthusiasm of individuality, the imagination of industrialism, demonstrating a relatively conspicuous touch of utopia, a tendency of mysticism, representing the playwright’s futuristic concept of the world, aesthetics. Generally speaking, that Futurist Theater stressed the need to construct the world through discourse experiment, release the utopian imagination of the future is the result of the comprehensive effect, overall influence from many factors, such as the idea of Futurism, Nietzsche’s philosophy, the revolutionary discourse of the times. In essence, it is a poetic counteraction against the drama of Realism, Symbolism, an artistic practice of the revolutionary spirit, revolutionary ideal. As a result, Futurist Theater laid down the foundation for the Russian avant-garde drama, the early Soviet comedy in the20th century with its avant-garde language, romantic style of rhetoric, radical themes

Key words: Silver Age, Futurist Theater, discourse experiment, utopian imagination, V. V. Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov