Boravišta komike u dramama o novobalkanskom ratu u Bosni i Hercegovini
The place of the comic in dramas about the new Balkan war in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The author deals with drama texts written in the BCMS language about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995, and discusses comic and humourous elements in them. He determines the function of the comic in the plays of authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Almir Imširević (If This Were a Performance…) and Zlatko Topčić (Happy New Year 1994!!!); from Croatia: Damir Šodan (Protected Zone); and from Serbia: Isidora Bjelica (The Saga About UNPROFOR) and Goran Marković (The Theatre Tour). He concludes that Šodan means to convey that the former common state (Yugoslavia) used war to treat the madness which had struck all levels of society. Imširević speaks about love, which constantly tries to overshadow hatred in his play, with “characters and witnesses” that should point out the culprits, but since it is nevertheless impossible to do so, the verdict is left to swearwords. Bjelica tries her hand at the genre of “propaganda drama”, using militant humour to try to prove that the Serbs (especially in Bosnia) are the most courageous. Marković manages to amuse with an interesting play about actors in the war, but does not succeed in equalizing the misdeeds of all the belligerents. Topčić shows how war frightens and destroys, but his subconscious and implicit thesis is that life is killed by war itself, and not by the shell fired by a warrior.

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