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October 27, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110009131

Theater Review: Bulldozed by Naivete

[Wall Street Journal] Terry Teachout - Politics makes artists stupid. Take "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," the one-woman play cobbled together from the scribblings of the 23-year-old left-wing activist who was run over by an Israeli Army bulldozer in 2003 while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip. It's an ill-crafted piece of goopy give-peace-a-chance agitprop - yet it's being performed to cheers and tears before admiring crowds of theater-savvy New Yorkers who ought to know better. So why don't they? Because Palestine is the new Cuba, a political cause whose invocation has the effect of instantaneously anesthetizing the upper brain functions of those who believe in it.

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