My Name is Rachel Corrie
My Name is Rachel Corrie is a one-woman play by Katharine Viner and Alan Rickman, based on the diaries and emails of peace-activist Rachel Corrie.
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The original text
Journalist Katharine Viner and actor Alan Rickman edited the diaries and emails of peace-activist Rachel Corrie (who had been killed by an Israel Defense Forces soldier when she was aged 23) to create to the play. ], who was
It was first performed at directed by Alan Rickman.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2013: Staged by the Hearts & Eyes Theatre Collective at the Grahamstown Festival with Kate Liquorish as Rachel, directed by Jaqueline Dommisse.
2015: The production was staged at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and in the Barney Simon Theatre at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Rachel_Corrie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Viner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Rickman
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
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