The Green Line (2025)
Produced by
In Arms Theatre Company and The Mena Collective
Presented by
Factory Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Playwright: Makram Ayache
Director: Makram Ayache
Venue
The Alexander Street Chamber Theatre
Run
September 19th, 2025 – October 4th, 2025
Synopsis
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. (buddiesinbadtimes.com)
Cast
| Waseem Alzer | Fifi / Zadan |
| Oshen Aoun | Naseeb / Rami |
| Basma Baydoun | Yara |
| Zaynna Khalife | Mona |
Creative Team
| Makram Ayache | Playwright |
| Makram Ayache | Director |
| Hiba Sleiman | Translator |
| Anahita Dehbonehie | Set Designer |
| Anahita Dehbonehie | Costume Designer |
| Jareth Li | Co-Lighting Designer |
| Kit Norman | Co-Lighting Designer |
| Chris Pereira | Co-Sound Designer |
| Heidi Chan | Co-Sound Designer |
| Anita Nittoly | Fight Director |
| Anita Nittoly | Intimacy Director |
| Honey Hoseiny | Assistant Set Designer |
Production
| Laura Baxter | Stage Manager |
| Honey Hoseiny | Head Construction |
| Honey Hoseiny | Lead Scenic Painter |
| Morvarid (Pearl) Alinejad | Scenic Paint Assistant |
| Aidan Hammond | Production Manager |
| Chris Holtkamp | Associate Producer |
| Christopher Elizabeth | Surtitle Designer |
| Dina Saleem | Surtitle Operator |
| Matthew Romantini | Production Assistant |
| El Patey | Head Technician |
| Darren Shaen | Head Technician |
| Kit Norman | Head Technician |
| Susanna Feng | Scenic Painter |
| Matt Armour | Scenic Painter |
| Antel Kollenberg | Crew |
| Zoe Daca | Crew |
| Brawk Hessel | Crew |
| Stephanie Taylor | Crew |
| Nate Gurarie | Crew |
| Diamond Srey | Crew |
| Mike Dowdall | Crew |
| Lindsay McDonald | Crew |
| June Lytle | Crew |
| Steph Raposo | Crew |
| Julie M. Li | Crew |
| Rian Tran | Crew |
| River Cecil Oliveira | Crew |
| Frank Incer | Crew |
Staff
| Rebecca Vandevelde | Production Manager |
| Anthony Allan | Technical Director |
| Aidan Morishita Miki | Producer |
