I cannot claim to have known anything about this any less recently than this morning, but I thought I’d throw in a little plug. Evidently, the New York Theater Workshop had bailed on a production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a play about the American pro-Palestinian activist who was killed after being run over by an Israeli security forces bulldozer. Now, a Brooklyn-based theater group is now putting on the following event:
WHO’S AFRAID OF RACHEL CORRIE?
An evening of Rachel’s Words: A theatrical event
Thursday March 16, 7:30 p.m. Admission free.Three years ago a young American peace activist named Rachel Corrie was killed in Gaza, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer while preventing the destruction of a Palestinian home. Please join us on the anniversary of Rachel’s death, Thursday, March 16, as we give her words the audience they deserve.
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Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church. 85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York.
C Train to Lafayette, G to Fulton, or Q, 2,3,4,5 to Atlantic Avenue.
[…from the Irondale Ensemble site]
Interestingly enough, I used to live at 65 S. Oxford and then later 73 S. Oxford, which is right across the street from this church. Had I not fled Brooklyn, I’d be very inclined to check this out.
And I can’t help but wonder if the driver of that bulldozer got the pizza Michael Totten sent him.