my name is rachel corrie
Edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner
Based on the writing of Rachel Corrie
Directed by Sarah Garton Stanley, in collaboration with Marcus Youssef
Enhanced Reading
UNO Festival, Victoria
Friday May 22, 6:30 PM
Metro Studio, 1411 Quadra, Victoria BC
World Peace Forum, Vancouver, BC
Tuesday November 11, 2008
Maritime Labour Centre
Montreal | Monument National | December 6 - 22, 2007
Vancouver | Havana Theatre | January 25 - February 9, 2008
* performances added due to popular demand *
Performance Times
Tuesday - Thursday 9:30 PM
Friday Saturday 7 PM and 9:30 PM
Special Performances
Thu 24 Jan | Free Preview Performance | Tickets at the door
Fri 25 Jan | Opening Night
Tues - Thur | Pay What You Can, tickets at the door
Ancillary Events
Fri 18 Jan, 8pm | Bite of the Underground | WISE Hall
Sun 20 Jan, 3pm | Here and There Panel Discussion | SFU Harbour Centre
20 Jan - 2 Feb | FeeXero.com | photographic exhibit in Havana Gallery
Sun 3 Feb, 3 pm | Public Conversation with Craig and Cindy Corrie | SFU Harbour Centre
Purchase an Audio CD and support the Rachel Corrie Foundation For Peace and Justice
Co-produced by Neworld Theatre and Teesri Duniya Theatre.
Presented in association with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
My Name is Rachel Corrie premiered at the Royal Court in London, England in the spring of 2005, to sell-out houses and rave reviews. Despite this success, theatres in New York and Toronto either cancelled productions or declined to produce it after publicly announcing their intentions to do so.
In March, 2003, 23 year old Rachel Corrie, of Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer in the Gaza strip. A volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, Corrie was protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes.
Passionate, sometimes irreverent and always intelligent My Name is Rachel Corrie explores anextraordinary young woman’s singular experience in a region most of us only know from the news. Rachel Corrie sought to discover for herself the human impact of her own country's foreign policies on people thousands of miles from her home, a small city a few hundred kilometers from Vancouver, BC.
Featuring Adrienne Wong (Performer), Ana Cappelluto (Set and Costume Design), Peter Cerone (Sound), Itai Erdal (Lighting Design) and Candelario Andrade (Video Design).
Teesri Duniya Theatre is dedicated to developing and producing socially and politically relevant plays that reflect the multicultural-multiracial composition of Canada, promoting interculturalism through theatre, and creating theatrical styles based on the cultural experiences of visible minorities living in Canada. Neworld previously collaborated with Teesri Duniya on the inaugural tour of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil.
“Her words bear witness to the deracinating madness of war”
- John Lahr, The New Yorker
