
Re/Sisters: Façade for the Twenty-First Century

In November 2021 Out Of the Archive staged Re/Sisters, a play about the lives of Claude Cahun / Lucy Schwob and Marcel Moore / Suzanne Malherbe. The show featured a live band with original music and songs.
Avante-Garde artists of the Paris surrealist scene, Cahun and Moore were lovers who made extraordinary art. During the Nazi occupation of Jersey they hid in plain sight and embarked on a daring campaign to undermine the occupiers: art as resistance.
Re/Sisters was written by Nicky Hallett (script) and Val Regan (music). It was directed by Jelena Budimir. The show was developed using material from the Jersey Heritage Archive and was funded by Arts Council England.
Team.
Production Team
Writer - Nicky Hallett
Composer - Val Regan
Director - Jelena Budimir
Dramaturg - Jelena Budimir
Set Designer and Projection - Daisy Frossard
Costume Designer - Becky Graham
Stage Manager - Margaret Crosby
Lighting - Richard Gillet
Filming - Peter Cuffe
Marketing - Liz Varley-Bassett
Cast and Musicians
Young Cahun - Emma Prendergast
Young Moore - Poppy Allen-Quarmby
Older Cahun - Liz Kitchen
MD, Violin, Guitar - Val Regan
Keyboard - Richard Body
Ukulele, Guitar - Matt Laurie