Heartlines

by Sarah Waisvisz

Overview

A riveting new play on the extraordinary love, art, and resistance of gender pioneers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore shared an astonishing life grounded in love, nourished by art, and motivated by justice. Using a play-within-a-play structure and epic storytelling, Heartlines takes the audience through the dizzying romance of their early life together in the Parisian avant-garde – and the subsequent fracturing of that life with the rise of nazism. Identities of all kinds are explored, suppressed, and liberated as their love withstands oppression, violence, and time itself.

Cast of 2 actors and 1 musician of any gender and any ethnicity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781772016970
Publisher:	Talonbooks, Limited
Publication date:	11/18/2025
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sarah Waisvisz is a playwright, dramaturge, and multidisciplinary performer. Her solo script Monstrous, about the Afro-Caribbean diaspora experience and mixed-race identity, has been performed across Canada and the US. Sarah has been Artist-in-Residence at GCTC and at the National Arts Centre. She directed Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s Witness Shift for Obsidian Theatre and CBC Arts as part of the filmed anthology 21 Black Futures and is currently working on Double Helix, an Afro-futurist, magical-realist play about the African diaspora. Sarah is assistant professor at the DAN School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University.