By Rachel Shabi in Haifa (Al-Jazeera)

An Arabic-language production of My Name is Rachel Corrie, a play based on the writings of a young American woman killed by an Israeli bulldozer, premiered in Haifa, Israel on Sunday.

Corrie’s parents attended the performance, which took place on the fifth anniversary of her death.

“I can’t think of any more appropriate place to be… than with all of you. Even when we are back in the United States, our hearts are always very much here,” Cindy Corrie, Rachel’s mother, told the audience.

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Here’s a list of international productions of the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie”

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After a critically-acclaimed run in Denver, Countdown to Zero’s production will run for two performances only in Albuquerque, Saturday, February 16, 2:00PM, and Sunday, February 17, at 2:00 PM. This play was chosen by Justice First! and Countdown to Zero as an artistic vehicle for community conversation. After both performances, post-show discussions will be offered in order to address the issues raised in the play and to encourage fair and honest conversation and reflection.

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Denver Post theater critic John Moore writes about the Countdown to Zero theater company’s staging of My Name is Rachel Corrie, with interviews of the actress and Corrie family as he reports on a unique take on the play: “Countdown to Zero, the closest thing to an experimental company to stage the play to date, made several artistic choices the Corries had never seen before: A set made primarily of sand. Certain passages treated as almost musical departures. The actor playing their daughter also reading the epilogue about her death.”

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The next PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver, B.C., will include a performance of My Name Is Rachel Corrie. The play recently premiered in Canada  in Calgary and will run in Montreal next month. — Link

Susan Stein reviews the production of  the Humboldt State University Van Duzer Theatre production of My Name is Rachel Corrie for the Arcata Eye in Arcata, CA.:

“Whatever one’s perspective on the Israelis and Palestinians, Rachel Corrie makes a completely human entrance on the scene. As we glimpse her through her journals and letters in My Name is Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old college student activist lives with Palestinians and works in support of their self-determination, and seems purely to hold nothing against Jewish Israelis, whom she refers to with compassion.”