This master's thesis deals with analysing and presenting the development of the migrant worker (pečalbar) character in Macedonian drama through different literary periods and stylistic formations during the development of Macedonian drama in the twentieth century. The paper analyzes four Macedonian dramas: Pečalbari by Anton Panov, Branch in the Wind by Kola Čašula, Tattooed Souls by Goran Stefanovski and Elešnik by Jugoslav Petrovski. In the introductory part of the paper, terms essential for the analysis of the selected plays and the character of the migrant worker (pečalbar) are explained, which are primarily migration, as well as the Macedonian name for temporary departure to work outside the place of residence, i.e. pečalba, are explained in the first part of the paper with the use of relevant literature that talks about migrations in the territory of Macedonia and beyond, the Balkans. In the second part of the introduction, a brief overview of the development of Macedonian drama, in general, is given with the aim of placing the selected and analyzed dramatic texts in a literary-historical context. In the elaboration itself, on the examples of the aforementioned dramas, the characteristics of essential drama, (social) realism, modernism and postmodernism are presented through changes in the approach to portraying the character of the migrant worker (pečalbar), his motives, psychologization, his existence in society and the influence that community can have on an individual, his destiny and identity.