What happens when the rise of tyranny threatens everything about you? Sarah Waisvisz's two-act play Heartlines, based on the life, love, and resistance work of gender-queer Jewish artists Claude Cahun (Lucy) and Marcel Moore (Suzanne), explores that question. The script has just been published in a new anthology entitled Global Jewish Plays (Methuen Drama / Bloomsbury). The play uses epic storytelling techniques, clowning, and embedded music and video to provide a surrealist playground for the performers and to bring the audience on a journey to Europe during the 1920s and WW2 as Claude and Suzanne witness the rise of fascism and decide to use their art to counter it. Heartlines had its first production in 2020 at undercurrents festival and its full mainstage production in 2022 at Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC), both directed by Rebecca Benson in Ottawa.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/global-jewish-plays-five-works-by-jewish-playwrights-from-around-the-world-9781350383302/
