When young American human rights activist Rachel Corrie was bulldozed to death by occupying forces on the Gaza Strip in 2003, she might have ended up as one more statistic of a bloody and unnecessary conflict.
When young American human rights activist Rachel Corrie was bulldozed to death by occupying forces on the Gaza Strip in 2003, she might have ended up as one more statistic of a bloody and unnecessary conflict.
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The survival of Rachel's diaries and their subsequent editing into a piece of solo verbatim theatre by actor Alan Rickman and journalist Katherine Viner ensured an immortalisation which gave voice to her generation.
A decade since Rachel's death, and eight years since her words were first heard on stage, and atrocities in Gaza are worse than ever. This makes this blistering revival of Ros Philips's production featuring Mairi Phillips as Rachel more pertinent than ever.
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