Inspired by Rachel’s story, Peter Schumann, founder and director of the internationally celebrated Bread and Puppet Theater, created this large, mixed-media art installation. Six primitive life-size figures painted with excerpts of Rachel’s e-mails describing the misery of occupation are juxtaposed with dozens of smaller portraits suggesting ignorant and complicit members of the U.S. Senate. Schumann is renowned for his use of simple, affordable, or free materials to elucidate social and political themes. The exhibit’s images are all on recycled corrugated cardboard, many painted with latex paint. [Read more…]
Listen to “The Skies are Weeping”
Listen to two selections from the 7-movement cantata “The Skies are Weeping,” by Alaskan composer Philip Munger.
Movement No.2: “Dance for Tom Hurndall.” (This piece will be performed under a new title, “Recently Untitled Dance” on Tuesday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the UAA Arts Building.)
Movement No.7: “Rachel’s Words.”
An interview with composer Phillip Munger
by Tamra Spivey
and Ronnie Pontiac
Newtopia Magazine
What does America mean? To much of the world we are the dominant predator on our political planet. We talk about freedom but we are also a ruthless exploitation machine reducing cultures to products as we homogenize the world into an undifferentiated mass of consumers. With our Christian fundamentalist president we talk about morality but our actions speak louder. >From the gleeful sadism of Abu Ghraib to Disney’s profiteering on porn, everywhere we prove daily that insatiable greed rules our universe. Some would argue that we are at our best when we celebrate it without shame. Then we are truly transformative, potent as interplanetary invaders beaming into cultures clinging to their ancient prohibitions. [Read more…]
Play based on Rachel’s Words still meets censorship
Middle-school principal yanks play
By Yudy Pineiro
Miami Herald
It was supposed to be opening night for the eighth-grade drama magnet students of Southwood Middle.
But instead of performing the politically charged play My Name is Rachel Corrie on Friday night, the students were told to recite their choice of monologues.
School officials called off the play, saying the subject — about a young American activist who died in 2003 under the wheels of an Israeli bulldozer as she fought for Palestinian rights — was too mature for middle school-age children.
— Read the rest at the Miami Herald
“It’s about time…”
THEATER
by Jason Zinoman
New York Times
It’s fitting that “THE CLEAN HOUSE” and “MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE” start performances on Thursday, since each play, in very different ways, raises the same question: What took so long?
“My Name Is Rachel Corrie” is a solo drama based on e-mail messages and journal entries written by Ms. Corrie, an American demonstrator for Palestinian rights who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003. The play has been at the center of one of the most furious controversies in the theater in years, even though few people in New York have seen it. The brouhaha began earlier this year after the New York Theater Workshop announced that it was delaying the play. Critics cried censorship, while representatives from the theater said it needed more time to “contextualize” the play. When “Rachel Corrie” begins performances at the Minetta Lane, we can finally see what the fuss is about. Previews begin Thursday; runs Oct. 15 to Nov. 19, 18 Minetta Lane, Greenwich Village, (212) 420-8000; $45 to $65.
— NY Times
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