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In a rare moment of unity, ethnic Turks and Greeks living in strife-torn Cyprus on Sunday wildly applauded a performance by Turkish-Cypriot actors of Aristophanes’ “Peace” in the Greek-Cypriot sector of divided Nicosia. It was the first such cultural event to attempt to bridge the gap between the island’s two ethnic groups since the Turkish invasion in 1974. A suburban theater, Satirico, had invited the 21 actors, musicians and stagehands of the Turkish Cypriot municipal theater in the north of the divided capital to cross the U.N.-patrolled border known as the Green Line with their play.