In my master’s thesis How to Think Story Through Sound: Specific Features of Writing for Auditory Media on the Example of the Original Radio Play Periphery (Periferija), I examine the possibilities of original writing for the auditory medium through my own radio play Periphery and the process of its creation. Based on the characteristics and particularities of the auditory medium and the forms of radio play, I also reflect on which format might be the most suitable for creating original works for this medium. I then present a comparison between the script of Periphery and the transcription of the radio play, which was produced by the Drama Programme Editorial Department at Ars (Radio Slovenia) in January this year (premiere on 18 February). In a self-reflective manner, and considering the specific features of the auditory medium, I try to deepen the sound dramaturgy of the written text by analysing five selected examples of scenes or mono-dialogues in Periphery. The full integration of sound as a carrier of meaning, thought, and expression strengthens the text dramaturgically, allows the expansion of the listener’s associative field, and intensifies the response to the auditory work. This exploration of sound dramaturgy is also supported by a comparative analysis of the radio plays Periphery and 103 Phone Calls (103 telefonátov), which meet in selected current themes (the influence of the environment on the individual, the female body and negative attitudes towards it, social hierarchy), and in the inclusion of a silent character in the radio landscape, which leads to a reflection on silence as a possible gesture of resistance.
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