My Name is Rachel Corrie

Edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
Taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie
Directed by Rito Asilo
Featuring Monique Wilson

Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? My Name Is Rachel Corrie tells the story of her short life and sudden death from the words she left behind.

Rachel Corrie was an American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on 16 March 2003, while undertaking non-violent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition.

Shortly after her death, several of her e-mails home from Gaza were published in a number of media outlets, including in the Guardian UK. British actor and director Alan Rickman was so moved by them that he approached the Royal Court Theatre about finding a way to tell Rachel's story onstage. A year after her death, Corrie's family sent the theatre 184 pages of documents: copies of Rachel's letters, e-mails and journals - some dating back to her childhood. Guardian journalist Katharine Viner was brought on board to work with Rickman at editing the material into a play. The two decided to let Rachel's story be told in her own words.

In April 2005, "My Name is Rachel Corrie", directed by Rickman and performed by Megan Dodds, opened at the Royal Court Theatre, and became the fastest - selling play in the theatre's history, selling out two complete runs before transferring to the West End the following year. The play was critically acclaimed and won the Theatregoers' Choice Awards for Best Director, Best New Play and Best Solo Performance.

The Asian premier of My Name Is Rachel Corrie stars Monique Wilson and is directed by Rito Asilo.

'Funny, passionate, bristling with idealism and luminously intelligent, Corrie emerges as a bona fide hero for this brutalised world of ours' - Time Out

'Theatre can't change the world. But what it can do, when it's as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people's passionate concern.' - The Guardian

'Rachel Corrie found a way to be political in a depoliticised age; she cared passionately for injustice, and unlike many of us, she tried to do something about it. There are few such figures in our commercialised culture.' - Katharine Viner, The Guardian

'Disbelief and horror is what I feel. Disappointment. I am disappointed that this is the base reality of our world, and that we, in fact, participate in it.' - Rachel Corrie, aged 23, diary extract 27th February 2003

'I don't know why I stayed. But one day I knew I had to. It was the same day I decided to be an artist and a writer and I didn't give a shit if I was mediocre and I didn't give a shit if I starved to death and I didn't give a shit if my whole damn high school turned and pointed and laughed in my face. -

I was finally awake, forever and ever.' - Rachel Corrie

Music Museum
September 3rd and 4th 2010 (Fri & Sat)
8 pm

For tickets, call the New Voice Company at 8966695, 8965497, 8990630
email nvc@pldtdsl.net or visit www.newvoicecompany.com
Tickets are also available at Ticketworld outlets (8919999)

Ticket Prices
Orchestra (Premium)	P 1,000
Orchestra (Regular)	P 750
Orchestra Sides	P 550
Balcony	P 300

For more information on Rachel Corrie visit: www.rachelcorriefoundation.org