Scenic reading and author talk
In an indefinite future, only people with a special language gene will be privileged. Those without this gene live outside an urban center, in ruins, with rudimentary language, reduced to the evolutionary level of an insect. Wurm is linguistically gifted and slips through the barriers separating the colonies every day to work in the center. But his superior has already become suspicious. Maria Milisavljevic writes about how language, power and the development of totalitarian systems are connected in her play Worte.