news | Friday November 14, 2025

Hot Off the Press! Heartlines: A Love Story Is Here!

Heartlines: A Love Story, the brand new play by Sarah Waisvisz has arrived back from the printer! Heartlines imagines the extraordinary love, art, and resistance of gender pioneers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. This work of historical fiction takes readers and audiences through the dizzying romance of Cahun and Marcel’s early lives together in the Parisian avant-garde – and the subsequent fracturing of their lives with the rise of nazism. Identities of all kinds are explored, suppressed, and liberated as their love withstands oppression, violence, and time itself.

An excerpt from Heartlines:

“SUZANNE
I won’t actually do that, Claude. But can’t we do something?

CLAUDE
We are doing something. Our job is to not get arrested.

SUZANNE
That’s not enough. I’m sick of doing nothing. I don’t want
to ration paper anymore. I don’t want to eat soup made from
vegetable skins or worry that another of our friends has
disappeared. People are being rounded up! Where the fuck are
they being taken to?

CLAUDE
You need to keep your voice down. Do you think I don’t
know all that? But someone might hear you. We can’t trust
anyone anymore.

SUZANNE
What happened to all your bravado? You’re telling me to keep
my voice down? You? The one who used to dance all night on
the street, drunk, singing with the musicians until you lost your
voice? You, who dragged me into Contre-Attaque with all those
arrogant men like Breton so you could wage surrealist battle on
fascism – you want me to be quiet?

CLAUDE
You’re not the one they’re after. You’re not the Jew.

SUZANNE
I am a Jew too, inside, where it counts. And we’re both
disgusting homosexuals to them.

Pause.

CLAUDE
I know.”

Pick up your copy of this riveting new play here.