Analysis of Biljana Srbljanović's dramatic work between the years 1996-2003

The object of my MA thesis is the analysis of works by the contemporary Serbian playwright Biljana Srbljanovié (*1970). She graduated in dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade between the years 1991 - 1996. Her MA thesis was her verv own drama called ''Beograd trí/ogy" ("Beogradska trilogija"). Biljana Srbljanovié is the author of such plays as ''Fami/y Ta/es" ("Porodične priče" - 1998), "The Fa/I" ("Pad" - 1999), "Supermarket, a Soap Opera" ("Supermarket, soap opera" - 2001), ''Ameríca/ Part Two" ("Amerika, drugi deo" - 2003). She received many prestigious domestic awards including the Sterijino Pozorje Award. She managed to get accepted with German speaking audiences on German stages between the years 1998 - 2000. Biljana Srbljanovié' s dramas were published and produced in more than fifty domestic and foreign theaters. As the first foreign author she received the Ernest Toller Award in 1999. The works by Biljana Srbljanovié can be divided into two periods. The first begins with her debut "Beograd trí/ogyl~ and ends in 1999 with "The Fa/I". The second period is distinguished by the two remaining dramas "Supermarket" and ''Ameríca ". Thematically the first plays discuss the political situation in former Yugoslavia, subsequently in the Republic of Serbia, and nonetheless also the results of..