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'Rachel Corrie' Finally Falls Flat
On Broadway, that is. Via Opinion Journal.
After a year of controversy and debate, My Name Is St. Pancake Rachel Corrie is closing. The one-woman play was put together by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner from the writings of an American-born terrorist sympathsizer Palestinian-rights advocate who was killed in 2003 by her own stupidity an Israeli Army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. After its final performance on Dec. 17, Rachel Corrie will have played 9 previews and 71 regular performances at the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village.
The run of IHOP Rachel Corrie was tranquil compared with the uproar that preceded its arrival. The production was initially scheduled to move in March from the Royal Court Theater in London to the New York Theater Workshop. But when the workshops artistic director, James C. Nicola, decided to postpone the show, many in the theater community erupted in protest. In June, Dena Hammerstein and Pam Pariseau announced that they would produce it for a commercial run Off Broadway.
Posted by: Raj 2006-12-07 |
