Rachel Corrie, peace activist.
Posted on 03/22/2006 10:10:31 AM PST by Mike Bates
The slim book that was suddenly the most controversial work in the West in early March was not easy to find in the United States. Amazon said it wasn't available till April. The Strand bookstore didn't have it either. You could order it on Amazon-UK, but it would be a week getting here.
SNIP
In the elevator, I flipped it open to a random passage:
"I can't cool boiling waters in Russia. I can't be Picasso. I can't be Jesus. I can't save the planet single-handedly. I can wash dishes."
The book is the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie. Composed from the journal entries and e-mails of the 23-year-old from Washington State who was crushed to death in Gaza three years ago under a bulldozer operated by the Israeli army, the play had two successful runs in London last year and then became a cause celebre after a progressive New York theater company decided to postpone its American premiere indefinitely out of concern for the sensitivities of (unnamed) Jewish groups unsettled by Hamas's victory in the Palestinian elections. When the English producers denounced the decision by the New York Theatre Workshop as "censorship" and withdrew the show, even the mainstream media could not ignore the implications. Why is it that the eloquent words of an American radical could not be heard in this country--not, that is, without what the Workshop had called "contextualizing," framing the play with political discussions, maybe even mounting a companion piece that would somehow "mollify" the Jewish community?
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
The original book title was: "Through the mail slot of Life: The Rachel Corrie Story"
I hear the plot is a bit thin. And the dialogue is flat.
I wonder how the play simulated Rachel being ran over by the bulldozer?
A short story
"I can't cool boiling waters in Russia. I can't be Picasso. I can't be Jesus. I can't save the planet single-handedly. I can wash dishes."
I can't go one on one with a Cat.
Hey-oooooooooooooooo!
Yea, right. If it ain't on Reality TV it ain't controversial to most in the U.S. !
Note to self: Don't get in front of an Israeli bulldozer.
Good one
LOL!
Good one!
Has the orange vest been offered on Ebay yet?
Life imitates art.
I don't taste good with maple syrup.
Corrie is the Wile E. Coyote of the protest movement.
BEEP, BEEP
Hahahahah! That's a riot.
Caterpillar should use that as an advertisement.
"Caterpillar bulldozers, now with optional easy-to-clean tracks. Just hose the useless terrorist off of it and you're good to go!
If this pinhead is trying to claim that there's some kind of rigorous censorship of Rachel Corrie's story, it's BS. She been in the news over and over. But none of the victims of PLO terrorism have been in the news nearly as much; they are only in the news once - when they are blown to bits by Rachel Corrie's buddies. Then, unlike Rachel Corrie, they are forgotten.
"I can't go one on one with a Cat."
Hey, that's kinda poetic. Maybe the play's producer's would be interested.
Rachel Corrie, peace activist.
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