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Playwright Makram Ayache's The Green Line begins previews at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, on Friday. Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account

Playwright Makram Ayache was twisting his body as part of York University’s postgraduate performance creation program when a quick glance in the mirror stopped him in his tracks: There was his father staring back at him.

“I looked so much like him,” Ayache recalls of that fateful moment seven years ago. “I had just moved to Toronto – it was the first time I’d ever moved out of my family’s home in Alberta. But there he was in the mirror.”

That moment ultimately became the seed for Ayache’s The Green Line , about

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