This undergraduate thesis tries to analyze and evaluate work of contemporary Croatian director Oliver Frljić through theoretical discussions of engaged art. Frljić is a famous theatrical creator who has provoked turbulent reactions from the audience and the general public many times in the past. Through the confrontation of Jean-Paul Sartre, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and Jacques Rancière, who each defined the concept of engaged art in their own way, the thesis tries to understand Frljić's theater in the context of these philosophical views. Through the analysis of three of Frljić's dramatic performances staged in Slovenia, Damned Be the Traitor of His Homeland!, 25.671 and Our Violence and Your Violence, and with the help of Siegfried Melchinger's definition of political theater and the specifics of post-dramatic theater as defined by Hans-Thies Lehmann it tries to describe Frljić's theatrical procedures and to find out how these procedures affect the transmission of the message of performances and in what way they express social criticism and how they affect the audience. Through Frljić's autopoetics and the previously mentioned theoretical discussions, the thesis thus tries to evaluate Frljić's work.
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