New Effort to Make Sure Rachel Corrie Play Is Staged in New York

Vanessa Redgrave calls the suspension of  My Name Is Rachel Corrie an "act of political cowardice." No doubt about that. Tremendous pressure is being brought to bear on the New York Theater Workshop by the usual Zionist suspects -- and the truth needs to be heard. They can't bury her again.

Rachel's Words is a new effort to galvanize support for artistic integrity in New York, and to make sure that this play is seen by the many thousands who will undoubtedly buy tickets to learn more, argue, be challenged and even in spite of themselves. If Broadway wants to be more than the Lion King -- this is it! Word has it that a guerrilla premiere of the play is coming on March 22. For regular updates, sign up for the mailing list.

The Corrie family encourages public readings of Rachel’s powerful emails that she sent home during her time in Rafah, Gaza Strip. If your group is going to stage a reading, let them know and they will post that information on the site.

Walter Davis also wrote up an analsyis of the conflict over at Dissident Voice: The Play's the Thing: Censorship, Theatre and Ideology

Comments

[Chris Anderson]

This is important. Thanks for the tip, Burningman.

[Rock the Cradle]

Well, not that the thea-tah is involved... action must be taken!

(I know, I know.)

[celticfire]

I am so happy to hear this news. I hope this works out.

[srogouski]

I'll definitely go to the event in Brooklyn.

This play is just meant for small budget productions anyway. There's only one actor and you don't need a lot of stage management.

It reminds me of "The Laramie Project" in some ways and can easily start popping up in small towns, in high schools, on college campuses, places where they wouldn't be able to stage a more complex production.