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A Controversial Death Provokes a Controversial Play
A monologue fashioned from the words of a woman killed in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict creates drama on-stage and off
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Cathleen McGuigan
Newsweek
Oct. 16, 2006 – Do you remember the name Rachel Corrie? Maybe not. She was a 23-year-old American peace activist killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer as she tried to block the destruction of a Palestinian’s house in Gaza in March 2003. She became more than a footnote in the Middle East conflict when her own words—from her journals and e-mails—were shaped into an award-winning one-actor play in London called “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” But when the show’s U.S. opening last spring was cancelled at the New York Theater Workshop (best known for spawning the musical “Rent”), a controversy erupted. The theater’s artistic director had made his decision after talking to leaders in the Jewish community; he later told The New York Times, “It seemed as though if we proceeded, we would be taking a stand we didn’t want to take.” The London producers called the cancellation “censorship.” [Read more…]
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
Play About Gaza Death to Reach New York
New York Times – June 22, 2006
by Campbell Robertson
After an Off Broadway production was derailed, resulting in a theatrical uproar, “My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” the solo show about an American demonstrator for Palestinian rights who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, has found another New York theater.
Pam Pariseau and Dena Hammerstein, partners in James Hammerstein Productions, are bringing the play, critically acclaimed in London, to the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village. Previews are to begin on Oct. 5, with an opening scheduled for Oct. 15. The play is to run for 48 performances, closing on Nov. 19.
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