Romance and reconciliation through theatre

No fighting: Scenes from the play Love and War on the Rooftop: a Tripolitan Tale. The actors from clashing neighbourhoods in Lebanons northern city of Tripoli have begun to see the goodness in each person despite their differences. - AFP

The stage has brought together young people with conflicting views and beliefs to befriend one another.

THE young man cowered behind a barrel on the barely lit stage, as his companion pointed a fake weapon towards a roaring audience in a Beirut theatre.