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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: My Name Is Rachel Corrie, to Pay the Price. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: My Name is Rachel Corrie is a play based on the diaries and emails of Rachel Corrie, edited by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman, who directed it. Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 March 16, 2003) was an American Evergreen College student and member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada. She was killed by a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during a protest against the destruction of Palestinian homes by the IDF in the Gaza Strip where IDF had designated a security zone and claimed contained a network of smuggling tunnels used for weapons smuggling and as guerilla hideouts which is necessary for them to destroy while Palestinians claim the tunnels are for "food, gasoline, and household treats'" trade under Israel blockade. The details of the events surrounding Corrie's death are disputed. While an Israeli military investigation ruled the death was an accident, Corries' parents and the ISM maintain that Corrie was run over deliberately. Alan Rickman first staged My Name is Rachel Corrie in April 2005 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, and it went on to win the Theatregoers' Choice Awards for Best Director and Best New Play, as well as Best Solo Performance for actress Megan Dodds. The play was scheduled to be transferred to the New York Theatre Workshop in March 2006. However, the New York theatre decided that, because of its political content, the play was to be "postponed indefinitely", after the artistic director polled numerous Jewish groups to get their reaction to the play. Rickman and Viner denounced the decision and withd...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5413079
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Liknande böckerEnglish Theatre Directors: Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Alan Rickman, James Whale, Mel Smith, Joan Littlewood, Samuel West, Simon Callow: ... Mendes, Tommy Steele, Peter Brook, Tom HardyPaperback 2010
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Plays About the Israeli-palestinian Conflict
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