Maria Milisavljevic

An undefined time in the future: only people with a special speech gene are privileged. If they do not exhibit this gene, they have to languish in front of the Berlin Wall. Damned to inaction. Wurm – linguistically gifted – risks sneaking out. Every day, he crawls through an old subway shaft to work fraudulently as a language speaker. This is how he feeds his colony. But his boss, Urso, is watching him closely. Transgression carries harsh penalties. Zeck and Laus are looking for meaning outside when they quickly begin to lose language. In her newest play, Maria Milisavljevic writes about how the loss of language can lead to further marginalisation, how totalitarian systems function and who the heroes really are.