My Name is Rachel Corrie is a play drawn from Rachel’s writings and edited by British actor Alan Rickman and Guardian editor Katharine Viner.
Directed by Rickman, My Name is Rachel Corrie enjoyed great success in London when it opened at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2005 and when it returned for an encore engagement in October 2005. In the spring of 2006, after the New York Theater Workshop halted production amidst controversy, the play moved to London’s West End for nine weeks at the Playhouse Theatre and also reached prominent summer theater festivals in Galway and Edinburgh. In addition to the Best Actress award, the play received the 2006 London Theatregoers’ Choice Award for Best Play and Best Director and garnered nominations for a Time Out Award for Best Actress, a South Bank Show Award for Best Production, and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement. London actress Josephine Taylor was nominated for “Best Solo Show” at the Edinburgh Fringe, a sixty year old arts festival and the world’s largest.
Diane Borger, general manager of The Royal Court Theatre in London said, “It has been a full time job to handle the number of requests that have come my way to produce this play around the world, even more so following the success of the New York production. It is a testament to the power and truth of this play that inquiries have come in from both Israel and Palestine. That is everything that Rachel Corrie was about.”
Megan Dodds, whose performance as Rachel Corrie received the London Theatregoers’ Choice Award for Best Actress, opened the show in New York. The part has been played more recently by Bree Elrod, Kerry Bishe and Marya Sea Kaminski. “One unexpected gift has been to witness the opportunity this role has given these outstanding, young, female actresses. I believe this would please Rachel,” said Cindy Corrie, Rachel’s mother.
My Name is Rachel Corrie touches on Rachel’s life from early days in Olympia, Washington, where she grew up, through her experiences as an activist in Gaza.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times said “Rachel Corrie’s sense of the world gone so awry that it forces her to question her ‘fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature’ is sure to strike sadly familiar chords.” Cathleen McGuigan of Newsweek exclaimed, “Here 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.” Elysa Gardner of USA Today calls My Name is Rachel Corrie, “Deeply, authentically human. If Rachel Corrie’s views provoke emotions and inspire debate, isn’t that part of the purpose of art?”
Inquiries to perform the play can be directed to:
In North America:
Robert Lewis Vaughan
Director of Professional Rights
DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC.
vaughan@dramatists.com
212-683-8960
For the rest of the world:
Howard Gooding
Judy Daish Associates
2 St Charles Place
London W10 6EG
Tel: 020 8964 8811
Five families — the Corries and four Palestinian familes — are plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc. over violations of international and state law. The case can at first seem confusing to those who have not been following the issue. , 
