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Dateline:
5th March, 2006
Rachel Corrie
Transfers & Is Censored in New York
Alan Rickman's production of My
Name Is Rachel Corrie is to transfer to the Playhouse on 29th
March after two successful sold-out runs at the Royal Court. Megan Dodds
plays the eponymous heroine.
The proposed New York production (at the NY Theatre Workshop) has been
postponed by the theatre, which said that the subject matter - the relationship
between Israel and Palestine - is too much in the news so that the artistic
qualitties of the piece would be overshadowed by the content.
The theatre's artistic director James Nicola made the following statement:
As the artistic director of New York Theatre Workshop for 18 years,
I have worked to help our audiences and our community engage in an
open and civil discourse on issues of our time. Our purpose for being
is to create the most conducive place for these conversations; we
have chosen the artists who lead these conversations with great care.
We always try to minimize the distractions around the production
so our constituency can hear the artist's voice. This takes a great
deal of planning and listening to accomplish. In the less than two
months we had to mount the proposed production of the Royal Court’s
My Name Is Rachel Corrie, we found that there was a strong
possibility that a number of factions, on all sides of a political
conflict, could use the production as a platform for their own agendas.
We were not confident that we had the time to create an environment
where the art could be heard independent of the political issues associated
with it.
We continue to have a deep interest in presenting My Name Is Rachel
Corrie. We have asked our colleagues at the Royal Court to give
us the necessary time to consider how we could present this powerful
work with the integrity it deserves. We are awaiting their answer.
Alan Rickman, however, has described the theatre's action as censorship.
Bathurst and Tennant in French Premiere
Fabrice Roger-Lacan's play Members Only, translated by Christopher
Campbell, receives it UK premiere at Trafalgar Studios 2 on 30th March
(previews from 28th), running until 22nd April. It stars Robert Bathurst
and Nicholas Tennant.
The Creeper
to Close Early
The revival of Pauline Macaulay's 1960s play The
Creeper, starring Ian Richardson, at the Playhouse is to close
on 18th March. It was booking to 22nd April. It opened last month to
generally very mixed reviews, with most critics praising the performance
but damning the play.
Beautiful Thing
Returns
The revival of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful
Thing, which played at the Sound Theatre in Leicester Square
from 11th january to 11th February is to return to the venue for an
eight week season from 19th July.
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