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Funny, passionate, bristling with idealism ... Corrie emerges as a bona fide hero for this brutalised world of ours. --Time Out
Theatre can't change the world. But what it can do, when it's as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people's passionate concern...Theatre has no obligation to give a complete picture. Its only duty is to be honest. And what you get here is a stunning account of one woman's passionate response to a particular situation. And the passion comes blazing through in Corrie's eloquent reaction to her father's inquiry about Palestinian violence. As she says, if we lived where tanks and soldiers and bulldozers could destroy our homes at any moment and where our lives were completely strangled, wouldn't we defend ourselves as best we could? --Guardian
This drama is many things. It's a piece about growing up in America today, it's a piece about the nature of heroism; it's a beautifully written and structured chronicle of a death foretold, which Rickman directs with great skill...(Rachel is) powerfully played by Megan Dodds, a truly incandescent, blazing presence, her skin and eyes shining with Rachel's passionate intensity and goodness. Inspirational. --Mail on Sunday
Theatre can't change the world. But what it can do, when it's as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people's passionate concern...Theatre has no obligation to give a complete picture. Its only duty is to be honest. And what you get here is a stunning account of one woman's passionate response to a particular situation. And the passion comes blazing through in Corrie's eloquent reaction to her father's inquiry about Palestinian violence. As she says, if we lived where tanks and soldiers and bulldozers could destroy our homes at any moment and where our lives were completely strangled, wouldn't we defend ourselves as best we could? --Guardian
This drama is many things. It's a piece about growing up in America today, it's a piece about the nature of heroism; it's a beautifully written and structured chronicle of a death foretold, which Rickman directs with great skill...(Rachel is) powerfully played by Megan Dodds, a truly incandescent, blazing presence, her skin and eyes shining with Rachel's passionate intensity and goodness. Inspirational. --Mail on Sunday
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Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? The story of Rachel Corrie's short life and sudden death is told in the words she left behind. My Name is Rachel Corrie is a play based on Rachel's diaries and emails, edited by Alan Rickman, who directed it, and journalist Katharine Viner. Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 March 16, 2003) was an American Evergreen State College student and member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. She was killed by a Caterpillar D9R armoured bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces during a protest against the destruction of Palestinian homes by the IDF in the Gaza Strip. The details of the events surrounding Corrie's death, as she stood between an Israeli bulldozer and a Palestinian home, are disputed. While an Israeli military investigation ruled the death at its own hands to be "an accident," eyewitnesses maintain that Corrie was run over deliberately.
Alan Rickman first staged My Name is Rachel Corrie in April 2005 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the play went on to win the Theatregoers' Choice Awards for Best Director and Best New Play, as well as Best Solo Performance for actress Megan Dodds. The play was scheduled to be transferred to the New York Theatre Workshop in March 2006. However, the New York theatre decided that, because of its political content, the play was to be "postponed indefinitely", after the artistic director polled numerous Jewish groups to get their reaction to the play. Rickman and Viner denounced the decision and withdrew the show. The play ran as a commercial production at the Minetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village in the fall of 2006
Alan Rickman first staged My Name is Rachel Corrie in April 2005 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the play went on to win the Theatregoers' Choice Awards for Best Director and Best New Play, as well as Best Solo Performance for actress Megan Dodds. The play was scheduled to be transferred to the New York Theatre Workshop in March 2006. However, the New York theatre decided that, because of its political content, the play was to be "postponed indefinitely", after the artistic director polled numerous Jewish groups to get their reaction to the play. Rickman and Viner denounced the decision and withdrew the show. The play ran as a commercial production at the Minetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village in the fall of 2006
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Rachel Corrie was ten years old in 1990 when she made the following speech (viewable on YouTube); "I'm here for other children. I'm here because I care. I'm here because children everywhere are suffering, and because 40,000 people die each day from hunger. I'm here because these people are mostly children. We have got to understand that the poor are all around us, and we are ignoring them. We have got to understand that these deaths are preventable. We have got to understand that people in third world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We have got to understand that they are us, we are them. My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000. My dream is to give the poor a chance. My dream is to save the 40,000 people who die each day. My dream can and will come true, if we all look into the future and see the light that shines there. If we ignore hunger, that light will go out. If we all help and work together, it will grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow".
Over 300 children were killed by Israel during its attack on Gaza that began over Christmas 2008 and continued into the new year of 2009. Many, many more were injured, maimed and made homeless and school-less; they are now subjected to an illegal siege by Israel.
On March 16th 2003, thirteen years after Rachel Corrie made her speech, she was killed in Gaza by Israel's army. Rachel Corrie was a human rights defender. She was American. She was 23 years old. Now, seven years later, an Irish ship bearing her name, shines that light she saw, as a ten year old girl, for all the world to see, on one of our times greatest injustices. Rachel Corrie has returned, once again, to peacefuly confront her killers with their own violence and injustice. Some lights don't go out. Some lights grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow. Some things can't be killed.
Over 300 children were killed by Israel during its attack on Gaza that began over Christmas 2008 and continued into the new year of 2009. Many, many more were injured, maimed and made homeless and school-less; they are now subjected to an illegal siege by Israel.
On March 16th 2003, thirteen years after Rachel Corrie made her speech, she was killed in Gaza by Israel's army. Rachel Corrie was a human rights defender. She was American. She was 23 years old. Now, seven years later, an Irish ship bearing her name, shines that light she saw, as a ten year old girl, for all the world to see, on one of our times greatest injustices. Rachel Corrie has returned, once again, to peacefuly confront her killers with their own violence and injustice. Some lights don't go out. Some lights grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow. Some things can't be killed.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Her own writings are beautifully crafted inner dialogues and correspondence with herself, her parents (present and absent), an imagined group of mental health patients, and of course the continuing political crisis for the people in Gaza. These are the expertly edited journal entries of a modern-day heroine that together present an irresistable passion for life and justice, someone that the rest of us can only admire for her bravery and hope that we too would have the courage to stand up to oppressors. That Rachel chose to face opporessors of a people who were not her own but on the recieving end of US government's endorsed and funded regeime is nothing short of jaw-droppingly inspirational direct action. To understand what, how and why she decided to devote herself to something so apparrently distant from her upbringing in Washington, the play will explain through her own honest, funny, humble and poetic words, in verse, prose and of course, lists. The play rightly leans on the dialogue, with minimal direction, allowing the power of this young woman's thoughts to speak, shout and whisper her own questioning about today's political injustices. That Rachel died (the text shies away from using the word murder, but the account of her death leaves nothing to doubt) is something we must all come to terms with, particularly that the situation for the people of Gaza has worsened considerably since she was crushed to death in 2003. The play's selection of her writings are carefully edited to include her abhorrence of suffering anywhere, and show she had the sense to distinguish between the Israeli government's policies and Jewish people in general, who have, of course, suffered. She asks the question, how would we defend our homes, families, jobs, health and access to water? Her eye-witness accounts of the kindness of the Gaza people urging her to email her mom, quit smoking, even share their blankets, is a rare insight into people generally viewed as terrorists and killers. Should anyone have to bring up their children in houses collapsing from shell-holes and bulldozer damage? Read her entries about trying to fetch a body under gun-fire, of the unimaginable limitations given to the elderly and women with babies to get to a well for water, love her reflections on her own life and when you get to the ten-year-old Rachel at the end, think what this fifth-grader went on to show the world about how to take a stand. Don't read it and weep - read it and do something: people continue to suffer and Rachel's story is one example of how to take action.
1 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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It is time to stop sanctifying Rachel Corrie. Rachel Corrie came to Israel to help Arab terorists murder Israeli women and children.
She died trying to prevent an Israeli bulldozer destroying an Arab weapons depot. Corrie entered a war , as an accomplice to terror and mass murder, and her own records show her as a hate-filled fanatic.
Think of the innocent Jewish children targeted by terrorists , with the willing help of Rachel Corrie. Corrie was no more innocent than an SS officer killed during World War II. In fact her aims where the same as the Nazis-to kill innocent Jews!
The author also praises the pro-terror International Solidarity Movement , which Corrie belonged to. The ISM openly supports the murder of Jewish women and children in Israel.
Also bizarre is to call a hate-filled instigator of terror who aided and abetted mass murder, like Corrie,a 'peace activist'-an Orwellian doublespeak oxymoron if ever there was one.
She died trying to prevent an Israeli bulldozer destroying an Arab weapons depot. Corrie entered a war , as an accomplice to terror and mass murder, and her own records show her as a hate-filled fanatic.
Think of the innocent Jewish children targeted by terrorists , with the willing help of Rachel Corrie. Corrie was no more innocent than an SS officer killed during World War II. In fact her aims where the same as the Nazis-to kill innocent Jews!
The author also praises the pro-terror International Solidarity Movement , which Corrie belonged to. The ISM openly supports the murder of Jewish women and children in Israel.
Also bizarre is to call a hate-filled instigator of terror who aided and abetted mass murder, like Corrie,a 'peace activist'-an Orwellian doublespeak oxymoron if ever there was one.
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