March 16, fifth anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death
Sunday, March 16, 2008 is the fifth anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death. We mark the day with grief as people in Gaza struggle to survive. The international siege has left them without basic needs such as fuel, electricity, and potable water, and the recent Israeli military invasion killed 120 people - over 70 civilians and children. (Read more here.)
For people planning events, The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has put together an excellent vigil guide. Also, Rachel’s emails from Gaza can be found, in many languages, on our website. We hope that the anniversary will be used as a day to commemorate Rachel Corrie and and keep Gaza in the news. We encourage people to continue reading Rachel’s emails in public gatherings large or small, on March 16th and beyond.
In the last 5 years, Rachel’s Corrie’s voice has broken through barriers to reach a widening audience. Craig and Cindy Corrie are in Haifa. On March 16 they will attend the opening performance of the play My Name is Rachel Corrie in Arabic at the Al-Midan Theatre. Friends from the Royal Court Theatre, which originally premiered the play, are joining them. After Haifa, the play will travel to Nazareth, Jaffa and Ramallah. The play, whose cancellation in New York launched our own initiative, is now being produced in theaters all over the U.S. and internationally.
This week W.W. Norton released Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie - a collection of Rachel’s prolific writing, from her poems and lists at an early age to her last email from Gaza. In their introduction to the book, the Corrie family says, “The world knows of Rachel from how she died. But we know her from how she lived. She was, first and foremost, a writer and an artist.” Rachel’s book is their gift to us.
Let Me Stand Alone can be purchased online here or from bookstores. If your local independent book store has not already stocked the book, you can encourage them to do so. Cindy and Craig Corrie will be on tour with the book in April. Below is a list of events planned for the national book tour, followed by a list of the many places around the world that My Name is Rachel Corrie has now performed.
Your efforts and support have helped make this possible. Thank you.
In Solidarity,
Rachel’s Words
LET ME STAND ALONE
BOOK TOUR:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Sat, April 5 @ 8PM KIng Middle School, Berkeley 510.848.6767
SEATTLE, WA
Monday April 7 @ 7:30 PM University Bookstore at Town Hall 206.634.3400
OLYMPIA, WA
Tuesday April 8 @ 7:00PM Orca Books
Wednesday April 9 @ 7:00PM Evergreen State College “Students Educating Students about the Middle East”
PORTLAND, OR
Thursday April 10 @ 7:30PM Powell’s at Hawthorne Bookstore 800.878.7323
WASHINGTON, DC
Monday April 14 @ 7PM Delaplaine Visual Arts and Education Center 301.698.0656
Tuesday April 15 @ 6PM Busboys & Poets 202.387.POET
NEW YORK, NY
Friday April 18 @ 6:30PM Cooper Union, Wollman Auditorium 212.353.4165
IOWA CITY, IA
April 21 or 22 - Event Pending - Iowa Memorial Union Prairie Lights
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Thursday April 24 @ 7PM The Loft Library Center Micawber’s Book Store 612.215.2575
MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
THEATER PRODUCTIONS TO DATE*
*Please send us any missing info!
A special note of thanks to all of you who staged your own readings and interpretations of Rachel’s Words.
We will post any upcoming Rachel’s Words events on out website - write us at info@rachelswords.org.
Royal Court Theatre, London, England
Premiered April 4, 2005 through April 30, 2005
Ran again October 11-29, 2005
Playhouse Theatre, London, England
March 29 - May 7, 2006
Minetta Lane Theatre, New York, New York
October 15 - December 17, 2006
Orpheum Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin
March 7, 8, 14, 15, 2007
Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, Washington
March 15, 2007 - May 6, 2007
(With a weekend of performances at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wa)
Contemporary American Theater Festival, Shepherdstown, Virginia
July 6 - July 29, 2007
The Kitchen & Roundhouse Theatre, Silver Spring, Maryland
July 21, 2007
Synchronicity Performance Group, Atlanta, Georgia
September 7 - October 7, 2007
Countdown to Zero, Denver, Colorado
Denver: September 28 - November 17, 2007
Lincoln, Nebraska: January 25, 2008
Omaha, Nebraska: January 26, 2008
Des Moines, IA: January 27, 2008 (2 shows)
Albuquerque, New Mexico: February 16 & 17, 2008
Teatro La Plaza, Lima, Peru
Ran until 31st October 2007; plans to tour until summer ‘08
Van Duzer Theatre, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
October 18-27, 2007
Fournos Theatre, Athens, Greece
Production opened on 12th October 2007
Nord Nederlands Toneel, Netherlands
Production opened 11th October 2007
Organic Theater Company, Atlanta, Georgia
October 4 - November 4, 2007
Gothenberg City Theatre, Sweden
Production opened on 9th November 2007
Sage Theatre, Calgary, Canada
November 15-24, 2007
Stockholm City Theatre, Sweden
Production opened on 8th December 2007
Teesri Duniya Theatre, Montreal, Canada
December 2-22, 2007
Neworld Theatre, Vancouver, Canada
January 23 - February 9, 2008
Viterbo University Theatre Department, Lacrosse, Wisconsin
Jan 31- Feb 2, 2008
Theatre Yes, Edmonton, Alabama
March 28 - April 12, 2008
Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney, Australia
Production opened 14th May 2008
Theatre Panik, Toronto, Canada
May 29 - June 22, 2008
Radio broadcast by Deutschlandradio, Germany
August 4, 2008
New Repertory Theatre, Watertown, Massachusetts
March 8-30, 2008
Subversive Theatre, Buffalo, New York
March 7-29, 2008
