Capture

SUN MAR 2 4:30PM

In-Development Open Session: CAPTURE, A New Musical by Tomas Parrish-Chynoweth (they/them) and Ziggy Resnick (they/she)

Two gender non-conforming lesbians fighting nazis in World War II with their surrealist art on the island of Jersey in the English Channel. It sounds like a fable, but it’s the true story of Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe – known by their artist names, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Capture (working title) follows Lucy and Suzanne through their arrest by occupying nazis, their trial, death sentence, and fortuitous liberation before the sentence could be carried out.

This chronology is interspersed with childhood memories, their 1920s Parisian explorations of the freeing sapphic club scene and the artistic stimulation of the intellectual salons, as well as their life on the island of Jersey. We see their quiet life turned upside down during the war, and what they did to really f*ck with the nazis. We witness the risks they took as two queer folk, and for Lucy as a jew.

Capture is a story of struggle and empowerment, of pain and suffering. But it is also filled with queer joy and sapphic love, with creativity and hope. For us today, in a world where neo-nazism and anti-trans movements are emboldened and violent, and genocides are being committed on multiple continents across the globe, these two queer heroes encourage us to hold each other close in our resistance, and teach us that freedom is worth the cost.

Open Sessions offer projects an opportunity to share excerpts from the show and for the audience to provide comments and feedback about their impressions of the work.

Approximate Running Time: 60 minutes with no interval

Part of Antipodes’ inaugural Summer Lab, providing ongoing development support to previous Winter Lab projects (Antipodes’ flagship development program, established in 2020). Each of the seven Summer Lab projects will culminate in either a one-night-only performance, a staged reading or in-development ‘sneak peek’ open session as part of Festival of the Unseen.