SPIKE Milligan had a joke that he told to film editors: “this editor was skiing down a big slope, lost his sticks and only just made it to the bottom.

“It was terrible,” he said. “My whole life flashed before me, badly edited.”

Sadly this version of Rachel Corrie’s story, taken by Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner from the writings of Rachel Corrie, seems to suffer similarly.

The prose style is perky USA, with words like ‘impacted’ misused in it, a tendency to preach, and a frustrating lack of detail as the tragedy unfolds.

Corrie, the programme tells us, spent three hours defying the bullying tactics of the Israeli Defence Forces before she was killed by a bulldozer, in ‘disputed’ circumstances.

Still, Kerry Butcher brings her own passion to the role, and gives a fine performance which keeps building throughout.

As the young Rachel, Katie McLellan- Salisbury (alternating the role with Martha Nelson) and Steven Lilly as first love Tom flesh out her youth.

Its Green Room productions have enhanced RAODS’ range and it’s good to know that they have plans to develop the Plaza further.