From Bulldozer to Broadway

Any article that starts out like this just has to be good (from OpinionJournal.com):

Politics makes artists stupid.

It's from Terry Teachout's column on the new Broadway play about Rachel Corrie, a 23 year old terror advocate who was unceremoniously run over by an Israeli Army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. What does Teachout think of this effort?

Co-written and directed by Alan Rickman, one of England's best actors, "Rachel Corrie" just opened off-Broadway after a successful London run. 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, like Mr. Rickman himself, ought to know better.

Rickman may be better known to movie fans as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series.

If you've never seen Ms. Corrie in action (pre-bulldozer, of course), LGF has this picture:



Read the rest of Teachout's review and commentary here.