My Name is Rachel Corrie
ICON Events + DaDa Gastropub, SD, 57104
Thursday, March 16 2023
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE is a one-woman play composed from Rachel’s own journals, letters and emails—creating a portrait of a messy, articulate, Salvador Dali–loving chain-smoker (with a passion for the music of Pat Benatar), who left her home and school in Olympia, Washington, to work as an activist in the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“AN IMPASSIONED EULOGY…IT’S HARD NOT TO BE IMPRESSED—AND ALSO SOMEWHAT FRIGHTENED—BY THE DESCRIPTION OF HER AS A TWO-YEAR-OLD LOOKING ACROSS CAPITOL LAKE IN WASHINGTON STATE AND ANNOUNCING, 'THIS IS THE WIDE WORLD, AND I’M COMING TO IT.'”
—NY TIMES.
“AN IMPASSIONED EULOGY…IT’S HARD NOT TO BE IMPRESSED—AND ALSO SOMEWHAT FRIGHTENED—BY THE DESCRIPTION OF HER AS A TWO-YEAR-OLD LOOKING ACROSS CAPITOL LAKE IN WASHINGTON STATE AND ANNOUNCING, 'THIS IS THE WIDE WORLD, AND I’M COMING TO IT.'”
—NY TIMES.