The compelling and controversial play “My Name Is Rachel Corrie”<\/em> returns for an Off-Broadway run in New York City for 10 performances at Culture Project\u2019s Lynn Redgrave Theater. The play is taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner.<\/p>\n \u201cExtraordinary power\u2026funny, passionate, bristling with idealism and luminously intelligent.\u201d Time Out (London)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou feel that you have not just had a night at the theater: You have encountered an extraordinary woman [in this] stunning account of one woman\u2019s passionate response \u2026 theater can\u2019t change the world. But what it can do, when it\u2019s as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people\u2019s passionate concern.\u201d The Guardian (London)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHere is a play where the real dialogue begins when the curtain comes down. MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE is theater that not only stirs our hearts but sticks in our heads.\u201d Newsweek<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe play shrewdly does not show Corrie dying; it shows her living, in all her funny, lively, melancholy and manipulative immediacy\u2026 Her words bear witness to the deracinating madness of war, a hysteria that infects not only those doing the fighting but also those ambitious to do the saving.\u201d The New Yorker \u201cAn impassioned eulogy\u2026it\u2019s hard not to be impressed \u2013 and also somewhat frightened \u2013 by the description of her as a two-year-old looking across Capital Lake in Washington State and announcing,\u2018This is the wide world, and I\u2019m coming to it.\u2019\u201d The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was killed 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\u2019s own\u00a0journals, letters and emails \u2013 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 the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In \u00a0three sold-out London runs since it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don’t miss this play, if you live anywhere near New York City! “MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE” The compelling and controversial play “My Name Is Rachel Corrie” returns for an Off-Broadway run in New York City for 10 performances at Culture Project\u2019s Lynn Redgrave Theater. The play is taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie, … Continue reading “Last week of performances! “My Name is Rachel Corrie” – Apr 9-12, NYC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pilgrims-of-ibillin","tag-rachel-corrie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilgrimsofibillin.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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<\/a>For ticket information call Ovation Tix at 1.866.811.4111 or visit Culture Project\u2019s website at http:\/\/cultureproject.org\/current\/rachel-corrie\/<\/a>. The one-woman play stars\u00a0Charlotte Hemmings, daughter of iconic English actor David Hemmings (Blow Up, Gangs of New York, Gladiator), making her New York stage debut. Presented by Sawtooth Productions LLC.<\/p>\n