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My Name is Rachel Corrie

My Name is Rachel Corrie

by RachelCorrie (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $3.34
Synopsis

Intensely topical account of the life and early death of a young woman activist - adapted from her own writings and directed for the Royal Court Theatre by Alan Rickman Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between an Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home in the Gaza strip? My Name is Rachel Corrie recounts her short life and sudden death in her own words. Working from Rachel Corrie's diaries, letters and e-mails, the actor/director Alan Rickman and the Guardian journalist Katharine Viner have distilled the essence of this remarkable person, whose instinctive sense of justice led to her tragically early death. My Name is Rachel Corrie is performed by Megan Dodds. It opens at the Royal Court Theatre on 7 April 2005. A selection of the e-mails Rachel Corrie sent to her mother from the Gaza Strip appeared in the Guardian on 18 March 2003, three days after she was mown down.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 64
 Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 14 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 1854598783
ISBN 13: 9781854598783

Media Reviews
Stunning...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. Guardian. Deeply moving. Independent. Extraordinary power. Time Out.
Author Bio
Rachel Corrie was born in 1979 into a middle-class family in Olympia in the state of Washington. She became politically active on what she called 'anti-war/global justice issues', which homed in on US support for Israel against the Palestinians. In January 2003 she flew to Israel and lived with a Palestinian family in the Gaza strip, protesting against the activities of the Israeli army. In March she deliberately stood in the path of a bulldozer destroying Palestinian homes. and was crushed to death.