Comrade B
3rd March 2010, 07:24
Rachel Corrie was killed in 2003 by an armored bulldozer while trying to protect a family's home from being demolished in Palestine.
http://www.pugetsound.edu/news-and-events/campus-news/details/489/
Tribute Performance to Rachel Corrie, March 3
February 24, 2010
TACOMA, Wash. – A dramatic reading from the play My Name is Rachel Corrie will be held Wednesday, March 3, at University of Puget Sound, with a discussion including Rachel’s parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, to follow. The performance is about Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old human rights activist from Olympia who died in 2003 trying to protect a house from demolition by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. The staged reading will begin at 7 p.m. in Kilworth Memorial Chapel. Admission is free. The post-production discussion will include Rachel’s parents (shown right with the Nasrallah family who owned the home) and Assistant Dean of Students Kate Cohn, and will be facilitated by Jewish Student Organization-Hillel President Adam Schechter ’10.
My Name is Rachel Corrie is based on Corrie’s journals, letters, and e-mail messages from her childhood until her death. Those who knew her say that from a young age, the Evergreen State College student seemed to understand the interconnectedness of life. At the age of 10 Corrie said, “People in third-world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We’ve got to understand that they are us and we are them.” Rachel went to Gaza to protest the injustice and violence inherent in the occupation of one nation by another.
Adapted by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman, My Name is Rachel Corrie was premiered at the Royal Court Theater in London. It has since been performed all over the world. “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,” wrote The Guardian newspaper of London.
Angelica Duncan, a graduate of Tacoma School of the Arts and a recipient of a Bachelor of Fine Art in Acting from Ithaca College, plays Corrie in this performance. The role of the reporter is read by Tacoma theater veteran, Michael Storslee. The production is directed by David Domkoski.
The reading has been coordinated by Rev. David Wright ’96, chaplain at University of Puget Sound, and by a host of community organizations, including The Micah Project, People for Peace, Justice and Healing, The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, Tacoma District of the United Methodist Church, Tacoma Unitarian-Universalist Social Action Committee, and United for Peace Pierce County.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for this free event. Seating is limited to the first 320 guests.
For directions and a map of the campus:www.pugetsound.edu/directions.xml (http://www.pugetsound.edu/directions.xml)
http://www.pugetsound.edu/news-and-events/campus-news/details/489/
Tribute Performance to Rachel Corrie, March 3
February 24, 2010
TACOMA, Wash. – A dramatic reading from the play My Name is Rachel Corrie will be held Wednesday, March 3, at University of Puget Sound, with a discussion including Rachel’s parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, to follow. The performance is about Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old human rights activist from Olympia who died in 2003 trying to protect a house from demolition by Israeli soldiers in Gaza. The staged reading will begin at 7 p.m. in Kilworth Memorial Chapel. Admission is free. The post-production discussion will include Rachel’s parents (shown right with the Nasrallah family who owned the home) and Assistant Dean of Students Kate Cohn, and will be facilitated by Jewish Student Organization-Hillel President Adam Schechter ’10.
My Name is Rachel Corrie is based on Corrie’s journals, letters, and e-mail messages from her childhood until her death. Those who knew her say that from a young age, the Evergreen State College student seemed to understand the interconnectedness of life. At the age of 10 Corrie said, “People in third-world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We’ve got to understand that they are us and we are them.” Rachel went to Gaza to protest the injustice and violence inherent in the occupation of one nation by another.
Adapted by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman, My Name is Rachel Corrie was premiered at the Royal Court Theater in London. It has since been performed all over the world. “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,” wrote The Guardian newspaper of London.
Angelica Duncan, a graduate of Tacoma School of the Arts and a recipient of a Bachelor of Fine Art in Acting from Ithaca College, plays Corrie in this performance. The role of the reporter is read by Tacoma theater veteran, Michael Storslee. The production is directed by David Domkoski.
The reading has been coordinated by Rev. David Wright ’96, chaplain at University of Puget Sound, and by a host of community organizations, including The Micah Project, People for Peace, Justice and Healing, The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, Tacoma District of the United Methodist Church, Tacoma Unitarian-Universalist Social Action Committee, and United for Peace Pierce County.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for this free event. Seating is limited to the first 320 guests.
For directions and a map of the campus:www.pugetsound.edu/directions.xml (http://www.pugetsound.edu/directions.xml)