Rachel Corrie, Back in the Limelight and Surprisingly Eloquent
Three years after the death that turned a young woman into an icon and set off floods of tears and dialogue groups on campuses across the country, the specter of Rachel Corrie is back–and she’s more sympathetic than her critics would have ever suspected. My Name is Rachel Corrie, a one-woman play about the 23-year-old American activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003, is a sensitive and chilling character study that hardly deserves the infamy it has acquired.