The Green Line

The Green Line
By Makram Ayache
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

Beirut, 1978 / Beirut, 2018 / beyond space and time

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 cigarettes 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 queer 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.

Dates + Times
Previews
Sept 19, 20, 24 // 7:30PM
Show Run
Sept 25 – Oct 4
Tues – Fri // 7:30PM
Sat // 2PM + 7:30PM

Tickets
$10 / $25 / $45 / $75 + fees

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