My Name is Rachel Corrie

My Name is Rachel Corrie is coming to the Godber Studio at Hull Truck Theatre on Friday 9 April, with a second performance on Saturday 10 April. It's a drama that takes its title from the life of Rachel Corrie, the American activist who was killed in Gaza in 2003, and the play is built around her own words.

If you're not familiar with the story, Corrie was a 23-year-old from the US who travelled to the West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Organisation, where she spent her time helping Palestinian farmers protect their land from Israeli bulldozers. The play doesn't just tell her story from the outside; it draws on her emails, letters, and journals, so the words you hear on stage are her own, written as she lived through the experience. It's a piece that lets her speak for herself rather than having someone else interpret her life.

Having it in the Godber Studio puts it in a smaller, more focused space than the main house, which suits a play built on personal writing. The two dates—Friday 9 and Saturday 10 April—give you a couple of options if you can't make the first night. It's a drama that stays close to the source material, and since it's based on Corrie's own records, it's as much about her voice as it is about the events she was documenting. If you've followed the story of Rachel Corrie before, this is a chance to hear it told through her own words. If you haven't, it's a way into it that starts with her own account. Both performances are at Hull Truck Theatre in Hull.