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Vanessa Redgrave and Rachel Corrie

Vanessa Redgrave weighs in on the Rachel Corrie controversy... March 6, 2006 The Second Death of Rachel Corrie Censorship of the Worst Kind By VANESSA REDGRAVE I am urging the Royal Court Theatre to sue the New York Theatre Workshop for the cancellation of the production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie". Not because I donated money for this production, which the Royal Court have been fundraising for--a target of 50,000 pounds, underwritten by Alan Rickman. This is censorship of the worst kind. More awful even than that.It is black-listing a dead girl and her diaries.A very brave and exceptional girl who all citizens, whatever their faith or nationality, should be proud and grateful for her existence. They couldn't silence her voice while she lived, so she was killed. Her voice began to speak again as Alan Rickman read her diaries, and Megan Dodds became Rachel Corrie.Now the New York Theatre Workshop have silenced that dear voice. I shall never forget the glimpse, at the close of Alan Rickman's production, of Rachel when 10 years old, shot on a little family movie camera, making her speech about world poverty and the urgent need to end the misery. The New York Theatre Workshop have silenced that little girl, as well as the girl who confronted the Israeli army Caterpillar bulldozer. There has to be a court case on the sheer fact of the cancellation of this production. I suppose lawyers were consulted about the word "postponed". We in the theatre know however what cancelling a production means, whatever words are used. Megan Dodds, and a crew lose their jobs. The Royal Court Theatre lose a production that was a few weeks from opening in New York City. For the Royal Court Theatre were producing "Rachel Corrie", with the New York Theatre Workshop, and putting up a lot of money--$100,000 dollars. I hope that all theatre artists, writers, designers, actors, directors, independent producers and artists' representatives will make their protests known publicly as well as directly to the New York Theatre Workshop management. I hope that American Actors Equity will be asked to take up and support the Royal Court Theatre producer, Elyse Dodgson, the director, Alan Rickman, and the actress Megan Dodds. If this cancellation is not transformed into a new production, somewhere in New York, immediately, we would be complicit, all of us, in a catastrophe that must not be allowed to take place. This play is not about taking sides. It is about protecting human beings. In this case, Palestinian human beings who have no protection, for their families, their homes or their streets. Rachel Corrie gave her life to protect a family. She didn't have or use a gun or bomb. She had her huge humanity, and she gave that to save lives. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stationtheatre/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: stationtheatre-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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Shakespeare for sale

I'm surprised the price is only 3.5 million. Shakespeare first folio to go under hammer The Guardian Thursday March 30, 2006 A first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, described by auction house Sotheby's as "the most important book in English literature", is to go on sale this summer with an estimated price tag of £3.5m. Printed in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, the folio was assembled and edited by John Heminges and Henry Condell, fellow actors who performed with Shakespeare in the King's Men, the company for which he wrote. The folio contains 36 plays, 18 of which - including Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It - had never been printed before and, were it not for their appearance in the folio, would most probably have been lost forever. On its publication, the folio sold for around 20 shillings (equivalent to approximately £100 today). The folio, which retains its mid-17th century binding of plain brown calf skin and whose extensive markings and annotations provide an insight into its early readership, is due to go under the hammer at Sotheby's London sale room on July 13. Peter Selley, Sotheby's specialist in English literature, expressed his excitement at the event. "Shakespeare has had a more profound and widespread impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all the performing arts, than any other writer who has ever lived," he said. "Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. This sale will be a truly exceptional event." The original print run of the first folio ran to 750 copies. Only around a third of these have survived into the present day, and they are generally incomplete. This copy has been put up for sale by the trustees of the Dr William's Library in London. The chiefly theologian library was established in the early 18th century by the Protestant dissenting minister Rev Dr Daniel Williams, who bought the book as part of a wholesale purchase for a total of £500 of the library of fellow nonconformist preacher, Dr William Bates, in the early 1700s. Since then, the copy has had the longest uninterrupted library ownership of any surviving example of the first folio, from at least 1716 until the present day. The current director of the library, Dr David Wykes, explained the library's decision to sell on the basis that the profit it will fetch is required to secure the library's finances. Copies in their original binding very rarely come on to the market and there is only one recorded as remaining in private hands. It belongs to the estate of the late Sir Paul Getty. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stationtheatre/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: stationtheatre-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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Vanessa Redgrave and Rachel Corrie

Vanessa Redgrave weighs in on the Rachel Corrie controversy... March 6, 2006 The Second Death of Rachel Corrie Censorship of the Worst Kind By VANESSA REDGRAVE I am urging the Royal Court Theatre to sue the New York Theatre Workshop for the cancellation of the production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie". Not because I donated money for this production, which the Royal Court have been fundraising for--a target of 50,000 pounds, underwritten by Alan Rickman. This is censorship of the worst kind. More awful even than that.It is black-listing a dead girl and her diaries.A very brave and exceptional girl who all citizens, whatever their faith or nationality, should be proud and grateful for her existence. They couldn't silence her voice while she lived, so she was killed. Her voice began to speak again as Alan Rickman read her diaries, and Megan Dodds became Rachel Corrie.Now the New York Theatre Workshop have silenced that dear voice. I shall never forget the glimpse, at the close of Alan Rickman's production, of Rachel when 10 years old, shot on a little family movie camera, making her speech about world poverty and the urgent need to end the misery. The New York Theatre Workshop have silenced that little girl, as well as the girl who confronted the Israeli army Caterpillar bulldozer. There has to be a court case on the sheer fact of the cancellation of this production. I suppose lawyers were consulted about the word "postponed". We in the theatre know however what cancelling a production means, whatever words are used. Megan Dodds, and a crew lose their jobs. The Royal Court Theatre lose a production that was a few weeks from opening in New York City. For the Royal Court Theatre were producing "Rachel Corrie", with the New York Theatre Workshop, and putting up a lot of money--$100,000 dollars. I hope that all theatre artists, writers, designers, actors, directors, independent producers and artists' representatives will make their protests known publicly as well as directly to the New York Theatre Workshop management. I hope that American Actors Equity will be asked to take up and support the Royal Court Theatre producer, Elyse Dodgson, the director, Alan Rickman, and the actress Megan Dodds. If this cancellation is not transformed into a new production, somewhere in New York, immediately, we would be complicit, all of us, in a catastrophe that must not be allowed to take place. This play is not about taking sides. It is about protecting human beings. In this case, Palestinian human beings who have no protection, for their families, their homes or their streets. Rachel Corrie gave her life to protect a family. She didn't have or use a gun or bomb. She had her huge humanity, and she gave that to save lives. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stationtheatre/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: stationtheatre-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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Shakespeare for sale

I'm surprised the price is only 3.5 million. Shakespeare first folio to go under hammer The Guardian Thursday March 30, 2006 A first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, described by auction house Sotheby's as "the most important book in English literature", is to go on sale this summer with an estimated price tag of £3.5m. Printed in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, the folio was assembled and edited by John Heminges and Henry Condell, fellow actors who performed with Shakespeare in the King's Men, the company for which he wrote. The folio contains 36 plays, 18 of which - including Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It - had never been printed before and, were it not for their appearance in the folio, would most probably have been lost forever. On its publication, the folio sold for around 20 shillings (equivalent to approximately £100 today). The folio, which retains its mid-17th century binding of plain brown calf skin and whose extensive markings and annotations provide an insight into its early readership, is due to go under the hammer at Sotheby's London sale room on July 13. Peter Selley, Sotheby's specialist in English literature, expressed his excitement at the event. "Shakespeare has had a more profound and widespread impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all the performing arts, than any other writer who has ever lived," he said. "Relatively complete copies of the Folio in contemporary or near contemporary bindings very rarely come to the market. This sale will be a truly exceptional event." The original print run of the first folio ran to 750 copies. Only around a third of these have survived into the present day, and they are generally incomplete. This copy has been put up for sale by the trustees of the Dr William's Library in London. The chiefly theologian library was established in the early 18th century by the Protestant dissenting minister Rev Dr Daniel Williams, who bought the book as part of a wholesale purchase for a total of £500 of the library of fellow nonconformist preacher, Dr William Bates, in the early 1700s. Since then, the copy has had the longest uninterrupted library ownership of any surviving example of the first folio, from at least 1716 until the present day. The current director of the library, Dr David Wykes, explained the library's decision to sell on the basis that the profit it will fetch is required to secure the library's finances. Copies in their original binding very rarely come on to the market and there is only one recorded as remaining in private hands. It belongs to the estate of the late Sir Paul Getty. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stationtheatre/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: stationtheatre-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/