My Name is Rachel Corrie (plus talk back with Nancy Keaner)

Vanishing Elephant Players presents My Name is Rachel Corrie, adapted from the writings of Rachel Corrie and edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner! This performance concludes with a talk-back featuring Palestinian aid worker and humanitarian Nancy Keaner, in addition to the cast and director.

On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE is a one-woman play composed from Rachel’s own journals, letters and emails—creating a portrait of a messy, articulate, Salvador Dali–loving chain-smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left her home and school in Olympia, Washington, to work as an activist in the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the three sold-out London runs since its Royal Court premiere, the piece has been surrounded by both…