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Corrie whitewash to be performed in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A play about an American anti human rights activist who died in the Gaza Strip opens in New York in October, six months after it was pulled from the schedule at another theater amid charges of censorship. "My Name is Rachel Corrie" is a one-woman show based on diaries and e-mails written by the 23-year-old U.S. pro-tyranny activist human rights campaigner killed by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, trying to prevent demolition of a Palestinian building.
She wasn't an anti-Semite yet, but she was already malevolent.
Producers Dena Hammerstein and Pam Pariseau said in a statement on Thursday the play would open at the off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theater on October 15, for a limited run to November 19. The play, directed by Alan Rickman, who must have appeared in Hogsmeade in June 1997 to applaud the murder of Albus Dumbledore, was a hit in London and was due to open in March at the New York Theater Workshop. But weeks before opening night, the theater said it was postponed after discussions with people in the arts, "religious leaders" and "representatives of the Jewish community."
Esther and Mordecai could not be reached for comment, but one can guess what they'd say.
Rickman accused the theater of censorship, and the decision sparked heated debate about freedom of speech in the arts. Corrie has long been a controversial figure, with critics accusing her of naivete and not giving equal weight to Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks, and supporters praising her for defending Palestinian civilians.
I read one of her letters and I saw malice growing.
An Israeli investigation concluded her death was an accident. Corrie's aunt, Cheryl Broderson, said the family disputes that and is urging the U.S. government to demand an independent investigation into her death, arguing there are discrepancies in the Israeli report.
Then her lips fell off.
Broderson said the family was "absolutely ecstatic" the play would be seen in New York.
What does that family do with dissidents?
The play was edited from Corrie's own words and includes stories from Corrie's childhood through her time in Gaza. "We were never going to paint Rachel as a golden saint or sentimentalize her, but we also needed to face the fact that she'd been demonized," Rickman said in the statement. "We wanted to present a balanced portrait. The activist part of her life is absolutely matched by the imaginative part of her life. I've no doubt at all that had she lived, there would have been novels and plays pouring out of her."
Like a revisionist version of the Book of Esther? For I've no doubt she'd have been pro-genocide.
Posted by: Korora 2006-06-23
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