New Repertory Theatre announces the extension of My Name is Rachel Corrie. My Name is Rachel Corrie and Pieces, two solo plays run in rotating repertory until March 30, 2008. My Name is Rachel Corrie will extend until April 5, 2008. Both shows play at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Both are shows about "young women whose coming of age took place within the context of the Israeli/Palestinian situation," press notes state.
"In
My Name is Rachel Corrie, we meet a 23-year-old American killed while attempting to stop an Israeli bulldozer from demolishing a civilian home on the Gaza Strip. Through her journals and e-mails, her compelling quest to find understanding in a complex situation is heard. Pieces is the autobiographical account of Zohar Tirosh, who also performs the play. Written when she was 23, Zohar documents her two years in the Israeli army, recounting her emotional and intellectual path during these turbulent years in her country. These two shows, being performed in rotating repertory, offer unique and poignant views of the Middle East situation," press notes describe.
The Artists
David R. Gammons (Director,
My Name is Rachel Corrie) Recent directing projects include a revival of
Arthur Kopit's
Oh Dad, Poor Dad…, the inaugural production at Harvard University's New College Theatre;
Romeo and Juliet at Boston Conservatory; and
Eric Bogosian's
subUrbia at MIT. His work as a director, designer, and creator of original performance material includes collaborations with The American Repertory Theatre, Headlong Dance Theater, Spencer/Colton Dance, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Phantom Theater, Theatre Offensive, and SpeakEasy Stage. He is the recipient of the 2007 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director for his production of
Titus Andronicus with Actors' Shakespeare Project.
Suzana Berger (Director,
Pieces) Recent directing credits include Shakespeare's
Cymbeline, Zohar Tirosh's
This Bloody Mess,
Neil Simon's
Last of the Red Hot Lovers, and
Doug Wright's
The Stonewater Rapture. She is a member of Saga Theater and was dramaturg on their production of Homesick at the Ohio Theater. Currently, she is a teaching artist for Epic Theatre Ensemble, Vital Theatre Company, Classic Stage Company, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has worked in Philadelphia (InterAct, Lantern), New York (New York Theatre Workshop, International WOW Company, Classic Stage Company), Washington, D.C. (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Bangor, Maine (Penobscot Theatre), and Düsseldorf, Germany (Forum Freies Theater). Suzana is a member of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
Stacy Fischer (Rachel) Boston credits include:
The Secret Love Life of Ophelia (Nora Theatre Company),
Theresa at Home (Village Theatre Project/Boston Playwright's Theatre),
Permanent Whole Life (Boston Playwright's Theatre),
Dark Yellow and Public Exposure (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre),
The Sanctuary Lamp (Súgàn Theatre),
The Violet Hour (Stoneham Theatre),
The Merchant of Venice,
Twelfth Night,
A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Much Ado About Nothing,
The Winter's Tale, and
Macbeth (Publick Theatre).
A Month in the Country (Huntington Theatre),
Life X 3 (Gloucester Stage),
Our Lady of 121ST Street, and
The Shape of Things (SpeakEasy Stage Company),
Book of Days (Lyric Stage), &
Romeo and Juliet (North Shore Music Theatre).
Zohar Tirosh (herself/playwright) has written, performed and directed in New York, Tel Aviv and Berlin.
Her new play,
This Bloody Mess, was developed at Lincoln Center Theater under the Directors Lab. Zohar's play, Land, Holy, was commissioned by The National Foundation for Jewish Culture for Rising Phoenix Rep. Land, Holy was a finalist for the Joseph Papp Public Theater's Arab-Israeli festival and her one-woman play, Pieces is currently being adapted into a screenplay. Zohar's translation of Hanoch Levin's Walking in the Dark will be published in an anthology of Israeli plays by Seagull Press later this year. Among others, she has worked with: Hacameri Theatre's Itim Ensemble (under Rina Yerushalmi), The Lark Play Development Center, The Plum Theatre Company, The Brick, HERE, Bellevue Theater in Berlin and Baltimore's Center Stage.
The New Repertory Theatre is located at 321 Arsenal Street. Tickets are $25 (students for $10) and can be purchased via phone 617-923-8487 or buy online at www.newrep.org.
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