I am proud to mention that Marya is one of my teachers here at Cornish College of the Arts. In fact, I just got out of her class. Jealous? :p
The theater department went to see My Name is Rachel Corrie this morning, and it was all of the adjectives you describe it to be here. And the most important quality of the play is not its production -- it's the discussion that it has sparked among Seattleites about the Israel-Palestine conflict. The play (which was comprised entirely of Corrie's writings, aside from recorded epilogues) is controversial, often one-sided, and at times sadly naive, but then again so was Rachel Corrie, and so are we all. I'm just glad to see the city of Seattle shed its "see/hear/speak no evil" veneer and participate in open discussion about a profoundly important topic.
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Jeremy D. Downing said on March 29, 2007:
I am proud to mention that Marya is one of my teachers here at Cornish College of the Arts. In fact, I just got out of her class. Jealous? :p
The theater department went to see My Name is Rachel Corrie this morning, and it was all of the adjectives you describe it to be here. And the most important quality of the play is not its production -- it's the discussion that it has sparked among Seattleites about the Israel-Palestine conflict. The play (which was comprised entirely of Corrie's writings, aside from recorded epilogues) is controversial, often one-sided, and at times sadly naive, but then again so was Rachel Corrie, and so are we all. I'm just glad to see the city of Seattle shed its "see/hear/speak no evil" veneer and participate in open discussion about a profoundly important topic.