Play: My Name is Rachel Corrie

Fri. March 7th 7:30 pm Orpheum Theater (216 State St.) Madison Premiere of the new play: My Name is Rachel Corrie. Admission is $5.00. Preceeding the play at 5:30 pm will be a fundraising dinner in the Orpheum Lobby Restaurant with Craig and Cindy Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie. Proceeds above cost will go toward emergency relief in Gaza.
My Name is Rachel Corrie is a play that has become a flash point for opposing feelings about the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian land. On March 16, 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, of Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in the Gaza strip. A volunteer with the International Solidarity
Movement, Corrie was attempting to stop the destruction of a Palestinian home. Edited by British actor Alan Rickman (best known for his portrayal of Professor Snape in the "Harry Potter" films) and Guardian journalist Katherine Viner, My Name is Rachel Corrie is assembled almost entirely from journal entries and e-mails written
by Corrie. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theater in London, England in the spring of 2005, to sell-out houses and rave reviews. However, the U.S. premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop was "un-scheduled" amid cries of censorship. The London production subsequently had a successful off Broadway run at the Minetta
Lane Theater in New York and about a dozen additional productions have been or will be mounted in Canada and the U.S.

Other scheduled performances of the play in Madison include:
Sat. March 8th 7:30 pm Orpheum Theater.
Fri. March 14th 7:30 pm Ouverture Center for the Arts (201 State St.)
Sat. March 15th 7:30 pm Ouverture Center for the Arts (201 State St.) A donation is requested for admission.

Info? #608-906-3207 or rafahsistercity@yahoo.com