Play at the Shoebox Theatre, May 4,5,6,7, 8:30pm
2110 SE 10th Avenue, Portland 97214   Seating is limited, reservations required.

“My Name is Rachel Corrie,” taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie
and edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, is being presented at
the Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Avenue between Lincoln and Grant, on
May 4,5,6 and 7th at 8:30 pm. Seating is very limited so reservations
are required. Please call 503 265-8672. A donation of $10 is suggested.

About the play, from Amazon’s review of the play/book:
 
“A powerful, thought-provoking and deeply moving piece of theatre.”-Daily Telegraph
 
“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
 
I have been in Palestine for two weeks and one hour now, and I still
have very few words to describe what I see. I don’t know if many of the
children here have ever existed without tank-shell holes in their
walls. You just can’t imagine it unless you see it. And even then your
experience is not at all the reality . . . [due to] the fact that I
have money to buy water when the army destroys wells, and of course,
the fact that I have the option of leaving. I am allowed to see the
ocean.-Rachel Corrie

 
On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip as she was trying to prevent the demolition of the Palestinian homes. My Name is Rachel Corrie is a one-woman play composed from Rachel’s own journals, letters, and e-mails-creating a portrait of a messy, skinny, articulate, Salvador Dal-loving chain-smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left home and school in Olympia, Washington, “to support Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israel’s military occupation.” The piece premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre, with an award-winning, sold-out run, before its transfer to the West End.
 
About the Author
Rachel Corrie was born in 1979 in Olympia, Washington. She became politically active on what she called ‘anti-war/global justice issues’, which homed in on US support for Israel against the Palestinians.