My Name is Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist, adapted from her own writings.'Funny, passionate, bristling with idealism and luminously intelligent, Corrie emerges as a bona fide hero for this brutalised world of ours'
* Time Out *'A deeply moving personal testimony.. 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'
* Guardian *'Deeply moving'
* Independent *'Extraordinary power'
* Time Out *
Rachel Corrie (1979-2003) was an American college student who joined other foreign nationals working for the International Solidarity Movement in Gaza in January 2003, where she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting. Alan Rickman was an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage and on screen. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in modern and classical theatre productions, as well as gaining wider notice for his film performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series. Katharine Viner is a British journalist and playwright. She has been the editor-in-chief at the Guardian and The Observer since 2015, having worked at the Guardian since 1997. She was appointed deputy editor of the Guardian in 2008; launched the award-winning Guardian Australia in 2013; and was also editor of Guardian US, based in New York. She was the winner of the 2017 Diario Madrid prize for her essay How Technology Disrupted the Truth. She co-edited the play My Name is Rachel Corrie with Alan Rickman, first seen at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2005.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781854599469 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854599461 |
| Title | My Name is Rachel Corrie |
| Author | Rachel Corrie |
| Series | Nhb Modern Plays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nick Hern Books |
| Year published | 2007-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Winner of Best New Play, WhatsOnStage Awards 2006 |
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