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.
