My Name is Rachel Corrie at Burning Coal Theatre Company

My Name is Rachel Corrie , written by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner and drawn from the writings of Rachel Corrie, will be directed by Jeff Zinn. The play is based on the diary and emails of the young American Activist Rachel Corrie. Rachel decided to put her body in jeopardy by travelling to Gaza to stand in front of bulldozers attempting to raise a Palestinian neighborhood in order to build illegal ‘settlements’ for Israelis. She was run over by a bulldozer operated by an Israeli Defense Forces soldier and killed. My Name Is Rachel Corrie is the story of one American who stood up for her values and for the rights of a people for whom she had no connection other than the connection of being human.