The Nation -- So much for freedom of speech, let alone thought.
The play My Name Is Rachel Corrie, directed in London by actor Alan Rickman and due to open in New York City in March, has been canceled for fear of controversy.
The play adapts the diaries of the 23-year-old woman from Seattle who was murdered in Rafah in 2003, when she was deliberately run down by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer. Rachel had traveled to the
" type="hidden"> SEARCHNews | News Photos | Images | Web" type="hidden"> Gaza Strip during the last intifada as an activist for the International Solidarity Movement.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie has enjoyed two sell-out runs in London at the Royal Court Theatre and great critical acclaim; it was due to open at the New York Theatre Workshop in the East Village.
In private conversations with those who staged the play in London, the Theatre Workshop cited the election of Hamas in Palestine,
" type="hidden"> SEARCHNews | News Photos | Images | Web" type="hidden"> Ariel Sharon's medical condition and the furor over the Danish cartoons as reasons for refusing to stage the play. ...
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