Reader Reviews
My Name is Rachel Corrie (Playhouse Theatre, West End)
Back to Show Details| Score | Comment | Date |
 | A great piece of agit-prop. Well acted and wonderfully edited; not too preachy and yet retaining political bite when needed. Recommended. - 80.42.182.217) | 02 May 06 |
| I thought the acting was a bit flat. - 71.114.91.182) | 02 May 06 |
| Staggering. As a piece of fiction, the play would have been good in its own right. However, to know from the outset that Rachel Corrie did exist, and did die at an age when most of us are still trying to work out who we are, brings this piece of theatre into a whole new dimension. Megan Dodds was wonderful, bringing spark and humanity to the character, and resisting the temptation to try and make Rachel a saint. Full marks to her, Rickman and Viner for avoiding a hagiography and depicting a rounded and complete person who just couldn't grasp why such horrors go on in today's world. Whatever your view of the Arab-Israeli conflict, you will be moved and stirred by this real woman's account of her own experience. Unless of course you are the reviewer below, whose fair-minded and incisive comments should be ... flatly ignored. - 83.104.38.117) | 30 Apr 06 |
| 1 star for the play. 5 stars for the 1.5 hours of great sleep i got. What a complete and utter pile of ****! - 82.2.171.36) | 25 Apr 06 |
| A really moving piece - well worth going to see. - 82.110.212.210) | 24 Apr 06 |
| Thought provoking and brilliantly performed. Most of the audience seemed to be American! - 217.35.103.86) | 07 Apr 06 |
| This is thrilling theatre: emotionally resonant, politically aware, technically accomplished, angry and thoght provoking. Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman's script is a collation of Rachel's own words and they reveal a smart, passionate, sometimes infuriating, always engaging young woman who genuinely put her money (or in fact, her life) where her mouth is. Alan Rickman's riveting production never puts a foot wrong, and Megan Dodds' exquisitely truthful and selfless performance allows Rachel's remarkable combination of naivety and compassion to shine through. This is disturbing, powerful and essential. The fact that it is so far being denied an American staging is a disgrace. - 195.82.123.181) | 01 Apr 06 |
