The Green Line

The Green Line by Makram Ayache
Translation by Hiba Sleiman

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

The Green Line is an English-language production with subtitles in English and Arabic

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

*The run is currently sold out, if you'd like to add your name to the waiting list, you can do that here.*

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 – Sat // 7:30PM
Sat + Sun // 2PM

Masked + Relaxed Performance 
Sunday, Sept 28

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.