Rachel Corrie,Alan Rickman,Katharine Viner
â€œExtraordinary powerâ€¦ Funny, passionate, bristling with idealism and luminously intelligent.â€ â€“,TimeOut London,â€œYou feel you have not just had a night at the theatre: you have encountered an extraordinary woman [in this] stunning account of one womanâ€™s passionate responseâ€¦ Theatre canâ€™t change the world. But what it can do, when itâ€™s as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other peopleâ€™s passionate concern.â€ â€“,Guardian, (London),â€œAn impassioned eulogyâ€¦ Itâ€™s hard not to be impressed â€“ and also somewhat frightened â€“ by the description of her as a two-year-old looking across Capital Lake in Washington State and announcing, â€˜This is the wide world, and Iâ€™m coming to it.â€™â€ â€“,New York Times,On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. ,My Name is Rachel Corrie, is a one-woman play composed from Rachelâ€™s own journals, letters and emails â€“ creating a portrait of a messy, articulate, Salvador Dali-loving chain-smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left her home and school in Olympia, Washington, to work as an activist in the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since its Royal Court premiere (London), the piece has been surrounded by both controversy and impassioned proponents, and has raised an unprecedented call to support political work and the difficult discourse it creates.,ALAN RICKMAN, is a British actor and director, who directed the London and New York productions of the play. ,KATHERINE VINER, is an award-winning journalist and editor of the ,Guardian,â€™s Weekend Magazine.
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My Name is Rachel Corrie