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Curtains for 'Rachel Corrie'
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| 3-1-2006
Posted on 03/01/2006 11:04:32 AM PST by I am for Bush
The Nation -- So much for freedom of speech, let alone thought.
The play My Name Is Rachel Corrie, directed in London by actor Alan Rickman and due to open in New York City in March, has been canceled for fear of controversy.
The play adapts the diaries of the 23-year-old woman from Seattle who was murdered in Rafah in 2003, when she was deliberately run down by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer. Rachel had traveled to the Gaza Strip during the last intifada as an activist for the International Solidarity Movement.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie has enjoyed two sell-out runs in London at the Royal Court Theatre and great critical acclaim; it was due to open at the New York Theatre Workshop in the East Village.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bulldozer; cat; caterpillar; corrie; dozer; flatrate; pancake; rachel; rachelcorrie
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To: I am for Bush
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:05:37 AM PST
by
RebelBanker
(If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
To: I am for Bush
No matter how they portrayed it, she never looked like a victim.
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:05:58 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: I am for Bush
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:06:07 AM PST
by
battlecry
To: I am for Bush
The Nation -- So much for freedom of speech, let alone thought. To The Nation, freedom of speech should mean freedom from criticism.
And does anyone know the position of The Nation on the Islamic cartoon story?
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:06:22 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
To: I am for Bush
So much for freedom of speechNobody's stopping them...
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:06:24 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: I am for Bush
The couldn't find an actress flat-chested enough for the part.
To: Puppage
Except their own cowardice.
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:07:11 AM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: sionnsar
ping, from Olympia, not Seattle...wasn't she?
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:07:42 AM PST
by
MarMema
(Buy Danish, support freedom)
To: I am for Bush
F-ugheadaboutit!
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:07:44 AM PST
by
weegee
(Liberals have a god complex. They always want to create and run Eden, err.... Utopia.)
To: Richard Kimball
Except their own cowardice.BINGO!
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:07:46 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Tijeras_Slim
They also had to cast a John Deere as the Caterpiller.
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:07:48 AM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:08:01 AM PST
by
weegee
(Liberals have a god complex. They always want to create and run Eden, err.... Utopia.)
To: I am for Bush
Murdered? I call that a Darwin award nominee.
(I hope the curtains were "pressed" when they came down...)
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:08:18 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading since 2004)
To: I am for Bush
IBTZ I suppose...
Well as a little palestinian child might say...
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:08:33 AM PST
by
Xenophon450
(Behead those who say Islam is violent)
To: I am for Bush
Audience members said the performances were a bit flat.
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:09:16 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: I am for Bush
To: Puppage
"Nobody's stopping them..."
It's self-censorship. Controversial plays are not unknown in New York. The off-the-record-type explanation is a mis-direction most likely.
Maybe they lacked funding.
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:09:39 AM PST
by
Shermy
To: I am for Bush
Rachel Corrie is a pa-a-a-a-ncake!
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:09:46 AM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(Going armed to the terror of the public.)
To: I am for Bush
she wast NOT "deliberatley run down by a bulldozer", she slipped and fell between the treads and the blade, which brushed against her and she died as a result.
nothing deliberate about it
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posted on
03/01/2006 11:10:25 AM PST
by
camle
(Keep your mind open and somebody will fill if full of something for you.)
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