Forget the Harry Potter HBO Series. Did you know that they tried to cancel Professor Snape's stage play? Alan Rickman wrote a play about Rachel Corrie, the woman who was killed by aIsrael She was crushed to death and Israeli forces posted photos on social media mocking her death. Theatres in New York refused to let Rickman's play about Corrie be performed on stage in 2006 when he brought it to the US.