LA Times Shills for Terror Supporters (Again)
Charles Johnson
Fri Mar 3, 2006 at 7:10 pm PST • Views: 266
Katharine Viner, features editor at Britain’s far-left Guardian newspaper, complains in the Los Angeles Times about the horrible American suppressive climate that has shut down her play glorifying Rachel Corrie: A message crushed again.
THE FLIGHTS for cast and crew had been booked; the production schedule delivered; there were tickets advertised on the Internet. The Royal Court Theatre production of “My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” the play I co-edited with Alan Rickman, was transferring later this month to the New York Theatre Workshop, home of the musical “Rent,” following two sold-out runs in London and several awards.
We always felt passionately that it was a piece of work that needed to be seen in the United States. Created from the journals and e-mails of American activist Rachel Corrie, telling of her journey from her adolescence in Olympia, Wash., to her death under an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza at the age of 23, we considered it a unique American story that would have a particular relevance for audiences in Rachel’s home country. After all, she had made her journey to the Middle East in order “to meet the people who are on the receiving end of our [American] tax dollars,” and she was killed by a U.S.-made bulldozer while protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes.
Oddly, the play produced by Rickman and Viner does not include Rachel Corrie in her most (in)famous scene, burning a badly simulated American flag for a room full of Palestinian children:
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