after returning to liberty, he mostly worked as a playwright and stage director in several slovene language theatres in ljubljana. during this time, he was among the first who introduced the surrealist and absurdist elements on slovenian and yugoslav stages. he established close contacts with the stage directors žarko petan and bojan štih who both shared some of javoršek's modernist and progressive esthetic views. javoršek managed to stage several plays based on the theories of antonin artaud and alfred jarry in the drama theatre of ljubljana, directed by štih. because of this innovative approach that challenged the cultural policies of the communist regime, javoršek gained influence on the younger generation of slovene artists and authors, known as the critical generation, who departed from the prevailing humanistic and intimistic trend in slovenian culture and literature of the time and embraced more metaphysical questions. among those young authors were dominik smole, taras kermauner, primož kozak, and others. javoršek had nevertheless a critical attitude to the younger generations and often disapproved their radical modernist approaches.