A dramatic reading of the controversial 2005 play My Name Is Rachel Corrie will be performed at 7:00 p.m. on Wed., Mar. 3, in Kilworth Chapel, on the campus of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA.[1] -- The play is based on edited diaries and emails written by Rachel Corrie (1979-2003), who died from wounds inflicted by an armored Caterpillar bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. -- The role of Rachel Corrie will be performed by Angelica Duncan, a graduate of Tacoma School of the Arts who received her B.F.A. in Acting from Ithaca College in 2009. -- Another veteran actor, Michael Storlee, will perform as "the Reporter." -- Some additional information sent on by Nancy Farrell is posted below.[2] -- BACKGROUND: For an idea of the controversies this play has provoked, see here for the astonishingly nasty attack on the play that a doyenne of the American literary scene, Cynthia Ozick, unleashed in 2006, as well as a spirited defense of the play by Starhawk....
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WHAT: Dramatic reading of *My Name Is Rachel Corrie*, followed by a discussion with Cindy and Craig Corrie (Rache Corrie's parents) and Kate Cohn, assistant dean of students at the University of Puget Sound
WHO: Angelica Duncan as Rachel Corrie; Michael Storslee as "the Reporter"
WHEN: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 -- 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
WHERE: Kilworth Chapel, North 18th St. and N. Lawrence St., University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
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[From Nancy Farrell]
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE, the controversial and politically charged play about the Olympia, Washington human rights activist who died protecting a house from demolition by Israeli soldiers in Rafah, Gaza, will be given a staged reading at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 3 at the Kilworth Chapel of the University of Puget Sound, N. 18th between N. Lawrence and N. Alder., Tacoma, WA. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for this free event. Following the 90-minute reading, there will be a discussion with Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel's parents, and Kate Cohn, Assistant Dean of Students at UPS.
Adapted by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman from Rachel Corrie’s own journals, letters, and e-mails, MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE, had its premiere in a critically acclaimed production at the Royal Court Theater in London, and has since been performed in Israel, South America, Australia, Greece, Scotland, Iceland, and in the United States, including a run at Seattle Repertory Theater.
The play is based on Rachel's journals from childhood until just before her death. Even when young, Rachel seemed to understand the interconnectedness of all living things. A ten-year-old Rachel said: "People in third-world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us. We've got to understand that they are us and we are them." She seemed to grasp that when harm is perpetuated on some, it hurts us all.
Rachel went to Gaza to try to help end the injustice and violence inherent in the occupation of one country by another. Her life ended in an attempt to protect others from harm.
Angelica Duncan is featured as Rachel Corrie. Duncan is a graduate of Tacoma School of the Arts, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from Ithaca College in New York in 2009. The role of the Reporter is read by Michael Storslee, himself a veteran of 25 years in theater in Tacoma. The reading is directed by David Domkoski.
The reading is coordinated by Reverend David Wright, chaplain of the University of Puget Sound and a host of community organizations including The Micah Project; People for Peace, Justice, and Healing; Rachel Corrie Foundation; Tacoma District of the United Methodist Church; Tacoma Unitarian-Universalist Social Action Committee; and United for Peace of Pierce County.
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