My Name is Rachel Corrie

Synopsis

Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie. Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? The short life and sudden death of Rachel Corrie, and the words she left behind.

Our Review:

31 March 2006

It’s not a good time for individuals to try to challenge US government policy: if you’re not for us, you’re against us, is Bush’s openly stated belief. In the same way, those who challenge Israeli policy on events in Palestine are accused of being anti-Semitic. But some brave people set out to make a difference, regardless. The real-life Rachel Corrie was one such, who didn’t just speak out but actually stood up, literally, to an Israeli, American-made bulldozer about to flatten a Palestinian home. It cost her her life, aged just 23.

But in the multi Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice award-winning play My Name Is Rachel Corrie that Guardian journalist Katherine Viner and director Alan Rickman have co-edited from Corrie’s own journals and emails, she is, all too briefly, brought back to life in a haunting, evocative memorial to the journey that took her from a safe, comfortable life in a Washington state suburb to die defending a home that wasn’t her o...

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80.42.182.217) - 2 May 2006:

A great piece of agit-prop. Well acted and wonderfully edited; not too preachy and yet retaining political bite when needed. Recommended....

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