COMING IN SEPTEMBER
My Name
is
Rachel Corrie
taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie
edited by Alany Rickman
& Katherine Viner
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 Rachel's own journals, letters and emails - 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. In the three sold-out London runs since its Royal Court premiere, 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.
"Extraordinary power ... Funny, passionate, bristling with idealism and luminously intelligent."
- Time Out London
"You feel you have not just had a night at the theatre: you have encountered an extraordinary woman [in this] stunning account of one woman's passionatge response ... The theatre can't change the world. But what it can do, when it's as good as this, is send us out enriched by other people's passionate concern."
- Guardian (London)
"As an impassioned eulogy ... it's hard not to be impressed - and also somewhat frightened - by the description of her as a two-year old looking across Capitol Lake in Washington State and announcing, 'This is the wide world, and I'm coming to it." - New York Times.