Heartlines: A Love Story, Sarah Waisvisz

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Heartlines: A Love Story
By Sarah Waisvisz — Paperback, November 18, 2025

A gripping, imaginative new play that illuminates the extraordinary partnership of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore—two avant-garde artists, gender rebels, and resistance fighters whose love defied every norm and every danger.

In Heartlines, Sarah Waisvisz invites readers and audiences into a dazzling world of identity, intimacy, and courage. Through a play-within-a-play structure, the story sweeps us from the electric creativity of 1920s Paris—where Cahun and Moore reinvent gender, photography, and themselves—to the shadows cast by rising fascism, when their art becomes a weapon and their love becomes an act of defiance.

Moving between the real and the imagined, the personal and the political, this theatrical work delves into shifting identities, fluid embodiment, and survival against violence and erasure. Cahun and Moore’s bond—radical, tender, and fiercely committed—anchors the play as they navigate oppression, resistance, and the uncertain tides of history.

With a cast of 2 actors and 1 musician of any gender or ethnicity, Heartlines is a powerful choice for companies invested in queer history, experimental storytelling, and theatre that challenges and transforms.

A celebration of art, love, and survival, Heartlines brings two queer icons back into vivid, unforgettable light.

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