The Green Line at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

The Green Line

by Makram Ayache

An In Arms Theatre Company Production in Association with Buddies + Factory Theatre

September 19 – October 4, 2025
$10 / $25 / $45 / $75
all prices + fees

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.

Makram Ayache // playwright + director

Previews
Sept 19, 20, 24 // 7:30PM

Show Run
Sept 25 – Oct 4
Wed – Fri // 7:30PM
Sat // 2PM + 7:30PM

About In Arms
In Arms Theatre Company is a creative studio for art born from rupture. Dedicated to bold, heart-led theatre that centres the margins, holds space for care, and imagines spiritual and political transformation through resistance.

About Factory Theatre
Factory’s mission is to enthrall audiences with the imagination of Canadian playwrights and develop the next generation of diverse theatre artists. Since its founding in 1970, Factory has committed to exclusively produce Canadian plays. Factory has made it an artistic priority to invest in, and showcase Canadian artists who bring their stories to our theatre in Toronto. This has made Factory the home of the Canadian playwright and for over five decades, developing and producing some of the finest theatrical works in our national canon and giving space to some of the most gifted and prolific playwrights in Canada.