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iPhoto caption: Waseem Alzer in 'The Green Line'. Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.
REVIEW: The Green Line unspools an exquisitely written narrative of love and loss in Beirut
Playwright-director Makram Ayache’s The Green Line opens by describing this “no-man’s land” as an imaginary place — a political concept that materialized in the vegetation that reclaimed the land. For Ayache, the Green Line becomes a site of reckoning, remembrance, and restitution.
iPhoto caption: Promotional image from The Tempest: A Witch in Algiers at Shakespeare in the Ruff. Photo courtesy of Shakespeare in the Ruff.
REVIEW: The Tempest: A Witch in Algiers brings new meaning to a classic tale
You may think you know the story of The Tempest, Shakespeare’s shipwrecked saga about wizards, spirits, and nobility on a remote island. But in The Tempest: A Witch in Algiers, playwright Makram Ayache invites new consideration of canonized characters,
iPhoto caption: Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
REVIEW: The Hooves Belonged to the Deer at Tarragon Theatre/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Ayache’s blazing new play punches well above its weight in terms of tackling uncomfortable, deeply personal content through use of religious allegory.
iPhoto caption: A prairie snowscape just outside of Edmonton Alberta. Image courtesy of Makram Ayache.
“Where does a queer, sort-of-Muslim, brainwashed-ex-evangelical-Christian teenager find themselves in adulthood?”