The poignant, poetic voice of a young woman searching for her place in an embattled world.
Directed by Megan Kate Ward
Starring Amanda Jensen & Madeleine Rogers
PERFORMANCES: September 24 to October 30
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.
TICKETS: $18 General Admission $15 Students, Seniors & Teachers.
For more information, please call: 503-293-3062 or email: bibiwalton@yahoo.com.
Magan Wiles portrays Rachel Corrie
St. Louis’ Blue Rose Stage Collective launched their staging of My Name Is Rachel Corrie to excellent reviews. The group performs the play Thursday July 15 – Saturday July 17 with discussions following each performance. For more information, contact the Collective: 314-779-4148, bluerosestage@gmail.com.
“My Name is Rachel Corrie,” which makes its St. Louis debut with the new troupe Blue Rose Stage Collective, is neither boring nor preachy. It’s the rare one-actor show that manages to be engaging and thought-provoking from start to finish.
- Gabe Hartwig, St. Louis Today
Whether your political views favor one side or the other in the continuing conflict between Israel and Palestine, you’re sure to find Blue Rose Stage Collective’s debut presentation of My Name is Rachel Corrie to be a provocative and compelling piece of theatre.
- Broadway World, St. Louis
Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre is running My Name Is Rachel Corrie through March 20. Both the production and the staring actress, Mairi Phillips, are receiving excellent reviews.
Joyce McMillan writes in The Scotsman:
The up-close exuberance of these early scenes makes it all the more difficult to watch the disappointment and despair which begin to overtake Rachel in Gaza, and in the end tears are hard to avoid. But so, too, are the fierce questions Rachel was asking in her last days: about why we tolerate such terrible and unnecessary suffering in our world, every day, and what we are prepared to do about it.
And in The Guardian, Mark Fisher says:
Mairi Phillips’s exemplary performance brings to mind the recent research that suggests a link between political activism and happiness. Her youthful fervour is earnest but never foolish and she displays the ironic humour Americans are supposed to lack. Her expertly modulated performance goes from brazen to righteous to distressed, evoking Corrie’s spirit with tremendous honesty.
Tickets may be purchased online here.
Ros Phillips, who directed this production, talks about her perspective on Rachel’s story.
Mairi Phillips discusses playing Rachel.
Here are rehearsal and production photos.
A play currently running at The Allen Hall Theatre is receiving excellent reviews, and the cast can pat themselves, or to be more specific, herself on the back.
My Name is Rachel Corrie, is a portrait of a young American Peace Activist killed in the Gaza Strip seven years ago, and the play is performed by a single actress who speaks Corrie’s words.
A theatre near me is putting on a production of the play, “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” As elsewhere, the local production has drawn vigorous hassle from those who dedicate themselves to trying to punish any criticism in the U.S. of human rights abuses committed by the Israeli government.
Tonight there is a “talkback” after the performance. Some people are bringing handouts, and I was asked to write something.
In 1996, I was a volunteer for Christian Peacemaker Teams in the Palestinian city of Hebron. Shortly after I arrived in Hebron, 2 of us were arrested and threatened with deportation when members of the CPT sat on the roof of a Palestinian home that the Israeli army intended to demolish. In addition, friends of mine teach at Evergreen and had Rachel as a student. So when I was asked to write something, of course I said yes. Rachel’s story is close to my heart, not just as a symbol of human rights abuses carried out by the Israeli government with the acquiescence of the United States, but as a symbol of Americans putting themselves on the line for international solidarity. John Reed is buried in Red Square; veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade have been granted Spanish citizenship. When the Palestinians regain sovereignty over Al-Aqsa, I hope they do something there for Rachel.
