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Heartlines

By (author): Sarah Waisvisz

A riveting new play on the extraordinary love, art, and resistance of gender pioneers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore and a finalist for the 2026 Lambda Award in LGBTQ+ Drama

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

AUTHOR

Sarah Waisvisz

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.


Awards

  • Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Drama 2026, Short-listed
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    Dimensions:

    104 Pages
    9in * 229mm * 152mm * 6in * 13mm0.5in
    144gr
    5.125oz

    Published:

    November 12, 2025

    Publisher:

    Talonbooks

    ISBN:

    9781772016970

    Book Subjects:

    DRAMA / Jewish

    Language:

    eng

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