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  • Play About Demonstrator's Death Is Delayed [Rachel Corrie]

    02/28/2006 10:20:26 AM PST · by West Coast Conservative · 88 replies · 5,739+ views
    New York Times ^ | February 28, 2006 | JESSE McKINLEY
    A potential Off Broadway production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," an acclaimed solo show about an American demonstrator killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the destruction of a Palestinian home, has been postponed because of concerns about the show's political content. The production, a hit at the Royal Court Theater in London last year, had been tentatively scheduled to start performances at the New York Theater Workshop in the East Village on March 22. But yesterday, James C. Nicola, the artistic director of the workshop, said he had decided to postpone the show after polling local...
  • Carrying on the passion of activist Rachel Corrie: PLUS: FLAPJACK WANNABES

    03/14/2004 7:59:58 AM PST · by Cinnamon Girl · 137 replies · 486+ views
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001878801_rachel14m.html ^ | Sunday, March 14, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M. | Florangela Davila
    Craig and Cindy Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie, have devoted the past year to speaking about their daughter, who was killed one year ago as she attempted to stop a bulldozer approaching a Palestinian home. On the wall is a poster made by an artist in Rachel's honor.OLYMPIA — It isn't that they intended to turn the dining room into a shrine, explains Cindy Corrie, looking at a silk-screened, framed print of daughter Rachel. It's just that after Rachel Corrie died last year, as she tried to stop an Israeli bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home, her parents were hurled...