The purpose of this master's thesis was a comprehensive scientific analysis of the seventeen plays written by contemporary Slovene playwright Andrej Rozman Roza seeing as his complete oeuvre has not yet been the subject of scientific research. In the works, written from 1993 to 2013, I was interested in the theme, genre, language, interpretative readings as well as the reception and production aspects. Using comparative analysis I determined that the analysed plays use satire and comedy (character comedy, situational comedy and verbal comedy) to highlight problems in society. These problems can be sorted into most common themes: Slovene identity (national identity, Slovene language and culture), social issues, consumerism, political events and family relations. My analysis has shown that in addition to humour the texts are distinguished by language, most commonly by spoken Slovene in verse using word games, ambiguities and mimicking historic style. Most of the works refer to literary materials which the author updates, parodies and creatively improves. I have also discovered that custom writing is characteristic of these works and so musicals, focus on the performing dimension and good prediction of implementation options are common. These contribute to noticeable differences in the complexity in the texts performed by the author himself and the texts he writes for other theatres.
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