On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, was killed by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip as she was trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes. Read more …
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, skinny, articulate, Salvador Dali-loving chain smoker, who left her home in Olympia, Washington, “to support non-violent resistance to Israel’s military occupation.”
Rachel’s writings were edited by British actor Alan Rickman and Guardian editor Katharine Viner. This multi-award winning show is a powerfully honest insight into one of the most complicated international political conflicts that continues to resonate across the world.
Director Ros Philips gets a stunning one-woman monologue from Phillips.
Three years on from its first appearance at the Citizens’, Ros Philips’s superb staging of it is revived by Mull Theatre for a substantial Scottish tour, in a slightly more spacious production that offers Mairi Phillips’s intense, glowing and deeply moving performance more room to breathe, even as it softens some of its hard edges.
This high-quality version is effective enough to carry an impact long after Phillips has taken a well-deserved bow.
On Tour, from Saturday February 2, 2013, until Saturday March 9, 2013.
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