Intensely topical account of the life and early death of a young woman activist - adapted from her own writings and directed for the Royal Court Theatre by Alan Rickman Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between an Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home in the Gaza strip? My Name is Rachel Corrie recounts her short life and sudden death in her own words. Working from Rachel Corrie's diaries, letters and e-mails, the actor/director Alan Rickman and the Guardian journalist Katharine Viner have distilled the essence of this remarkable person, whose instinctive sense of justice led to her tragically early death. My Name is Rachel Corrie is performed by Megan Dodds. It opens at the Royal Court Theatre on 7 April 2005. A selection of the e-mails Rachel Corrie sent to her mother from the Gaza Strip appeared in the Guardian on 18 March 2003, three days after she was mown down.