My Name is Rachel Corrie

October 16, 2014/Ryan Clover-Owens

Title: My Name is Rachel Corrie
Featuring: Ashley Malloy      Director: Josh Perlstein
Format: Stage Play
Date: Monday October 20th
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall

My Name is Rachel Corrie is a one-woman stage play edited from the original writings of Corrie by actor Alan Rickman and journalist Katherine Viner. The play chronicles the life of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who traveled to Gaza in 2003 with the International Solidarity Movement to defend Palestinian homes from being demolished. She was killed on March 16th of that year by an Israeli bulldozer while protecting a host family’s house from being demolished.

The show is performed by Ashley Malloy, a recent BFA graduate of Central Connecticut State University and directed by Josh Perlstein. Ashley became interested in Palestinian rights through Professor Perlstein’s work with The Freedom Theatre, a professional company in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank.

This fall, Ashley Malloy is doing a tour of the United States. Having already received acclaim for her performance at the Rochester Fringe Festival, she is scheduled for a total of about twenty performances for the season.

Trailer for the performance

More about Rachel Corrie

More about the play and national tour

A review from the Rochester City Newspaper

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Ryan Clover-Owens

I'm on a mission to prove that we can live in a society that reconciles with our history, respects difference, cherishes the land and animals, and can create solutions to the challenges we face.