08/31/2025
The Green Line by Makram Ayache is coming soon!!!
September 19 – October 4, 2025
Produced by In Arms Theatre Company + the MENA Collective in association with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Factory Theatre
"Memory is a funny thing, so quiet if left undisturbed."
Two love stories twist together in two Beiruts riven by time and conflict. In 1978, two women share spit on the ends of ci******es and yearn for tenderness under the tumult of war. In 2018, a foreigner and a local flirt over vodka sodas as their contradictions collect like condensation on the sides of their glasses.
Poetic realism braids past and present into the green line of vegetation that bisected the concrete of Lebanon’s capital during the civil war. The Green Line, named a finalist for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award, unearths q***r history that has always been there, whether our ancestors wanted it to be inherited or erased.
The Green Line is a bilingual production in English and Arabic, with subtitles in both languages at every performance.
Cinematography and editing by Olya Glotka, creative direction by Fran Chudnoff, styling by CC Calica, makeup by Rahnell Branton.
