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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf Book Review

Theatre piece

For Colored Girls Who Take Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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1975 edition (publ. Shameless Hussy Press)
Written by Ntozake Shange
Characters
  • Lady in Cherry
  • Lady in Blue
  • Lady in Imperial
  • Lady in Yellow
  • Lady in Brownish
  • Lady in Green
  • Lady in Orangish
Date premiered September 15, 1976 (1976-09-15)
Place premiered Berth Theatre
Genre Choreopoem
Tragedy[1] [2] [3] [four]

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange's showtime work and most acclaimed theater piece, which premiered in 1976. Information technology consists of a serial of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a class Shange coined equally the choreopoem.[v] for colored girls... tells the stories of 7 women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society.[6]

Every bit a choreopoem, the slice is a series of 20 carve up poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of beloved, empowerment, struggle and loss into a circuitous representation of sisterhood. The bandage consists of seven nameless African-American women only identified by the colors they are assigned. They are the lady in ruddy, lady in orangish, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in brown, and lady in purple. Subjects from rape, abandonment, ballgame and domestic violence are tackled.[6] Shange originally wrote the monologues as separate poems in 1974. Her writing manner is idiosyncratic and she oftentimes uses vernacular language, unique construction, and unorthodox punctuation to emphasize syncopation. Shange wanted to write for colored girls... in a way that mimicked how real women speak and then she could draw her readers' focus to the experience of reading and listening.[vii]

In December 1974, Shange performed the get-go incarnation of her choreopoem with four other artists at a women's bar outside Berkeley, California.[8] Later moving to New York Urban center, she connected work on for colored girls..., which went on to open up at the Berth Theatre in 1976, becoming the second play by a black woman to achieve Broadway, preceded by Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sunday in 1959.[9] Shange updated the original choreopoem in 2010, by adding the poem "positive" and referencing the Iraq War and PTSD.

for colored girls... has been performed Off-Broadway equally well as on Broadway, and was adapted equally a book (get-go published in 1976 by Shameless Hussy Printing), a 1982 television movie, and a 2010 theatrical film. The 1976 Broadway production was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.

Title [edit]

for colored girls who accept considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf is a slice of work inspired by events of Shange's ain life. Shange admitted publicly to having attempted suicide on four occasions. In a phone interview conducted with CNN, she explained how she came to the title of her choreopoem: "I was driving the No. ane Highway in northern California and I was overcome by the appearance of 2 parallel rainbows. I had a feeling of about death or nearly catastrophe. And so I drove through the rainbow and I went away. Then I put that together to class the title."[10] The colors of the rainbow then became the essence of the women in the choreopoem.

Shange likewise explains that she chose to use the word "colored" in the title of her choreopoem so that her grandmother would be able to sympathise it.[vii]

Poems [edit]

  • "dark phrases" – Lady in Chocolate-brown with Ladies in Red, Blue, Orange, Dark-green, Yellow and Majestic
  • "graduation nite" – Lady in Xanthous with Ladies in Blue, Dark-green and Red
  • "at present i love somebody more than than" – Lady in Bluish with Ladies in Yellowish, Blueish, and Green
  • "no assistance" – Lady in Red
  • "i'm a poet who" – Lady in Orangish with Ladies in Crimson, Yellowish, Light-green, Blue, Purple and Chocolate-brown
  • "latent rapists'" – Ladies in Red, Blue, Purple
  • "abortion cycle #1" – Lady in Blue
  • "sechita" – Lady in Royal
  • "toussaint" – Lady in Brown
  • "one" – Lady in Red
  • "i usedta to live in the earth" – Lady in Blue
  • "pyramid" – Lady in Regal
  • "no more beloved poems #1" – Lady in Orange
  • "no more love poems #2" – Lady in Regal
  • "no more honey poems #3" – Lady in Blue
  • "no more than love poems #four" – Lady in Yellow
  • "my dearest is likewise" – Ladies in Red, Orangish, Yellow, Green, Bluish, Royal, Dark-brown
  • "somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff" – Lady in Green
  • "sorry" – Ladies in Cherry-red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blueish, Purple, Brownish
  • "positive" – Ladies in Red, Xanthous, Purple, Brown
  • "a nite with young man willie brown" – Lady in Ruby, Orange
  • "a laying on of hands" – Ladies in Red, Orange, Yellowish, Green, Blue, Regal, Brown

Synopsis [edit]

Structurally, for colored girls is a serial of 20-22 poems, depending on whether "my love is besides" and "positive" are included in the listing, collectively called a "choreopoem." Shange'due south verse expresses many struggles and obstacles that African-American women may face throughout their lives and is a representation of sisterhood and coming of age as an African-American woman. The poems are choreographed to music that weaves together interconnected stories. The choreopoem is performed by a bandage of seven nameless women only identified by the colors they are assigned. They are the lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in dark-brown, and lady in purple. Subjects from rape, abandonment, abortion, and domestic violence are tackled.[half dozen] By the cease of the play these women come together in a circle, symbolizing the unity they have found sharing their stories.

  • "dark phrases" – Lady in Chocolate-brown with Ladies in Red, Blue, Orangish, Light-green, Yellow and Imperial

The prologue of the choreopoem "nighttime phrases" begins with the lady in brown describing the "dark phrases of womanhood".[11] All she hears are screams and promises. Each woman states where she is from, past stating they are outside their respective cities. The lady in brown proclaims that this slice is all for "colored girls who have considered suicide / but moved to the ends of their ain rainbows".[12] The women and so begin to sing children's nursery rhymes, "mama'due south footling infant likes shortnin, shortnin".[12] Then all the ladies start to dance to the song "Dancing in the Streets".

  • "graduation nite" – Lady in Yellowish with Ladies in Blue, Dark-green and Cherry

The lady in yellowish says information technology was graduation night and she was the only virgin. She was out driving around with her male friends who she has known since the seventh class in a black Buick, laughing about graduation. Subsequently a fight breaks out, the lady in xanthous and Bobby go out and end up having sexual activity in the back of the Buick. The other ladies start talking about their sexual preferences.

  • "at present i love somebody more than than" – Lady in Blueish with Ladies in Yellow, Blue, and Greenish

The lady in blueish talks about how she used to participate in dance marathons oft. One night she refused to dance with anyone that merely spoke English. Throughout the monologue she intertwines English and Spanish. During this time she discovered blues clubs. She says she became possessed by the music. She ends her monologue past calling it her poem "give thanks-you for music," to which she states: "I love you lot more than than verse form".[xiii] She repeats "te amo mas que," and the other women join her, softly chanting.

  • "no assistance" – Lady in Scarlet

The lady in crimson addresses an ambiguous "yous" throughout the monologue. She has loved this "you" strongly and passionately "for 8 months, 2 wks, & a day" without whatsoever encouragement.[13] She decides to end this matter and leaves a notation attached to a plant that she has watered every day since she met this person.

  • "i'm a poet who" – Lady in Orange with Ladies in Crimson, Yellowish, Dark-green, Blue, Purple and Brown

The lady in orangish begins by saying she does not desire to write in neither English nor Spanish, but she only wants to trip the light fantastic toe. She forgets all near words when she starts to trip the light fantastic toe. She says "nosotros gotta dance to go on form cryin and dyin" and the other ladies repeat her words.[14] The lady in orange and so claims that she is a poet "who writes in english / come to share the worlds witchu".[xv]

  • "latent rapists'" – Ladies in Red, Bluish, Majestic

The lady in blue talks about how hard it is to press charges against a friend. The other women begin to ponder and ask questions. They say that peradventure it was a misunderstanding, or the woman caused it, and they ask her if she was drinking. The lady in cherry-red states that society only believes someone is a rapist if they are a perverted stranger. The women talk about male friends of theirs who have overnice smiles and buy them dinner simply finish up raping women. The women all share the experience of having been violated by a human they knew while being on the picket for "the stranger we e'er thot information technology wd be"[16] The lady in red states that the "nature of rape has changed." The lights alter, the women react to an imaginary slap.

  • "abortion wheel #1" – Lady in Blue

The lady in bluish sets the scene with tubes, tables, white washed windows, and her legs spread open. She couldn't bear to have people looking at her while she got an abortion so she is all alone.

  • "sechita" – Lady in Purple with Lady in Green

The lady in imperial describes Sechita'south life in the bayou, while lady in green dances out Sechita's life. She is dressed up for the Creole funfair celebration. She embodies the spirit of her namesake, Sechita, the Egyptian goddess of creativity, love, beauty and filth from the second millennium.

  • "toussaint" – Lady in Dark-brown

The lady in brown describes falling in love with Toussaint L'Ouverture finding Toussaint in the library near the railroad train tracks. The lady in brownish talks about inbound a contest to run across which "colored child" could read fifteen books in three weeks and the lady in brown won, but she was butterfingers because she went into the adult reading room and read about Toussaint instead of reading the children'south books. The lady in brown became obsessed with Toussaint despite the fact that he was dead. He was her "secret lover at age 8".[17] The lady in brown wanted to run away to go to Haiti with Toussaint. On her journey the lady in brown meets a young male child whose name is Toussaint Jones. The lady in brownish feels likes she'southward met her real-life Toussaint and she leaves with him.

  • "one" – Lady in Blood-red

The lady in red enters begins by describing a beautiful woman wearing orange butterflies, silk roses, and aqua sequins. This adult female is deliberate in all her actions. Although she walked slowly to allow men to gaze at her, she never returned their involvement with a smiling or acknowledging their catcalls. She was "hot / a deliberate coquette".[eighteen] Her goal was to be unforgettable. She takes "those especially schemin/ tactful suitors" to go dwelling with her. In the morning, she becomes her ordinary self by washing off the glitter and the grime from the dark before. She asks her lovers to exit. The men would leave in a hurry, and and then she cleaned up and put her roses away. She would write about her exploits in her diary and so, cry herself to sleep.

  • "i usedta to live in the world" – Lady in Bluish

The lady in blueish begins her monologue by explaining that she used to live in the earth merely at present but lives in Harlem, and her universe is only six blocks. She used to walk all over the earth and now her world is small and dingy. The lady in blue says that when she used to live in the world where she was nice and sugariness but at present, at present she cannot bring herself to be squeamish to anyone in this "six blocks of cruelty / piled up on itself".[xix]

  • "pyramid" – Lady in Purple

The lady in majestic joins the ladies in blue, yellow, and orange. She starts by describing them equally three friends who shared every aspect of their lives. They think a time when they all were attracted to the same human being, simply he only could cull 1 of them. The one who he chose loved him, but worried if her friends could concur out. One solar day she establish the rose she left on his pillow on her friend's desk. The friend said she did not know what was going on, because the human said he was gratis. The iii friends did not want to hurt one another simply they know how wonderful this man could be. The friends hug and weep and go to confront the man, whom they find with some other woman. The women cry and comfort each other like sisters.

  • "no more love poems #1" – Lady in Orange

The lady in orangish discusses a relationship that left her heartbroken. She says that ever since she realized that someone would call a "colored girl an evil adult female a bitch or a nag" (56) she has tried not to be that person. She tries to not merely requite joy, but to receive information technology as well. She finds herself in what she believes to be a real and honest human relationship. Even so, the guy keeps going back to his ex-lover. The lady in orange tried to move on past finding another lover, but she wasn't satisfied. She tried to avoid sadness, but she found herself heartbroken past this homo. She could not stand up existence "sorry & colored at the same time / it's and so redundant in the modern world".[20]

  • "no more dearest poems #2" – Lady in Imperial

The lady in purple speaks about her relationship to dance and men. She deliberately chooses to dance with men who don't speak English, pops pills, and uses trip the light fantastic as an escape from reality. And then she meets a man who she gave everything: trip the light fantastic, fear, hope and scars. She admits she was set to die, merely now is prepare to be herself and accept love. She pleads, "lemme dearest yous just like i am / a colored girl/ i'yard finally bein real".[21]

  • "no more love poems #iii" – Lady in Blue

The lady in blue proclaims that they all deal with too much emotion and that it might be easier to be white. That manner they could brand everything "dry out & abstract wit no rhythm & no / reelin for sheer sensual pleasure".[21] The lady in blueish states that they should endeavour to command their feelings and she is going to take the beginning step past masturbating. However, she finds that this makes her experience lonely and doesn't know where to look to feel whole.

  • "no more beloved poems #iv" – Lady in Yellowish

The lady in xanthous claims to have lost affect with reality considering she used to call back she was immune to emotional pain, but she realized she is not. She gave her trip the light fantastic toe, but her dance was non plenty. She says "bein alive & bein a adult female & bein colored is a metaphysical / dilemma / i oasis't conquered however".[22]

  • "my beloved is too" – Ladies in Yellow, Brown, Purple, Blue, Orange, Red, Green

The other women come and each repeats, "my honey is too...delicate/beautiful/sanctified/magic/sabbatum nite/complicated/music to have thrown back in my confront."[23] The ladies brainstorm dancing and chanting together.

  • "somebody about walked off wid alla my stuff" – Lady in Dark-green

The lady in green says that someone has taken all of her "stuff". She feels that she is the only one that knows and can appreciate the value of her stuff. She describes her stuff equally the style she sits with her legs open sometimes, her chewed up fingernails, her rhythm, her voice, her talk, her "delicate leg and whimsical kiss".[24] The person who stole her stuff is a man. She made too much room for this human being who has run off with her stuff, especially because he doesn't even know that he has it. By the end of the monologue she demands her stuff back from this man.

  • "sorry" – Ladies in Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Bluish, Imperial

The ladies showtime talking about all the apologies they've received from men. Some examples include: he is distressing because he does not know how she got your number, sorry because he was high, sorry because he is only man, and sorry because he thought she could handle it. The lady in bluish and so declares that she does not need any more than apologies. She goes on to say that men should keep their apologies for themselves, because she does not need them to soothe her soul and she cannot utilize them. Rather than accepting apologies, she is going to do whatever she wants: yell, scream, and break things. And she will non repent for any of information technology.

  • "positive" – Ladies in Ruby-red, Yellowish, Purple, Brown

Lady in yellow, imperial, brown, red participate in reciting the next poem nigh contracting HIV/AIDS; they share the lines and all speak to one woman'south feel. The ladies argue most suspicions of cheating in the relationship. The lady in yellow tells her friends how happy she is in her relationship and her friend tells her, they've seen her lover outside the gay bars. The lady in yellow protests, but her friend tells her to get tested. The lady in yellow goes to become tested to put the whole issue to bed. Ii weeks later, the md calls the lady in yellow with her patient number (#7QYG9) to inform her that she is HIV positive. The lady in yellow confronts her lover who furiously tells her he is non gay and accuses her of cheating on him. She tells him to get tested just he gets angrier and violent. He throws her to the ground and when she wakes up he is gone and she says, "& i was positive / & not positive at all".[25]

  • "a nite with beau willie brown" – Lady in Ruddy, Orange

The lady in orange begins the story of Willie Brown past proverb there is no air. Swain Willie is all tied up in the sheets, wishing a friend would come up over and bring him some blow or any other kind of drug. The lady in ruddy continues the story, saying that Boyfriend Willie claims in that location is nothing incorrect with him. Beau Willie tried to get veterans' benefits but he cannot read, so he starts driving a cab effectually the city only the cops e'er requite him a hard time and he is not making any money. The lady in orangish and red say that Crystal is meaning once again and Beau beats Crystal almost to death when he hears about her pregnancy. Boyfriend Willie has wanted to marry Crystal since she was 14, but now she laughs in his face saying she will never marry him. She has the baby and there are now two kids, Naomi and Kwame. Crystal ends upwardly getting a courtroom guild to go on Swain abroad from her and the children. Beau Willie comes to the firm despite the court order and while he is at that place he becomes atoning saying he just wants to marry her and give her things. The 2 children run to their father as Crystal watches. Suddenly, he grabs the kids and pushes the screen out of the window. Boyfriend Willie tells Crystal she has to agree to marry him. Naomi and Kwame scream and Crystal, at the moment, tin can just whisper. Beau Willie drops the kids out of the window and they die.

  • "a laying on of easily" – Ladies in Cherry-red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Majestic, Brown

The ladies begin the final poem maxim that they are missing something: a "layin on of hands".[26] The hands are strong, cool, moving, and brand them whole and pure. The lady in bluish says she feels the gods coming into her, laying her open to herself. She goes on to say that she knows about laying her body open for a human, but still she was missing something. Finally, all the ladies echo the lines she says, "i found god in myself / & i loved her / I loved her fiercely".[27] They sing to each other and then the audience, and close into a tight circle with each other. The choreopoem ends with lady in brown modifying her earlier statement: "& this is for colored girls who have considered suicide/ but are movin to the ends of their own rainbows."

Production history [edit]

for colored girls... was starting time performed by Shange with four other artists at the Bacchanalia, a women's bar, outside Berkeley, California.[28] [8] About six months afterward performing the work in California, Shange and her collaborator, Paula Moss, decided to move across the country adamant to perform it in New York City's downtown alternative spaces.[8] At the historic period of 27, Shange moved to New York, where, in July 1975, the reworked for colored girls was professionally produced in New York City at Studio Rivbea in 1975.[ix] [28] Eastward coast audiences were shortly able to experience Shange's functioning piece at other venues including the Sometime Reliable, and DeMonte's beginning in July 1975 and then starting in March 1976 at the Henry Street Settlement's New Federal Theatre.[viii] The show grew increasingly popular, especially among African-American and Latino audiences.[8] Every bit a result, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf opened at The Public Theater in June 1976. 3 months later, in September, the show was performed at the Booth Theater on Broadway, where it was continued until July 1978 and ran for 742 shows.[29] Shange performed as the "lady in orangish" at the Broadway opening.[8] It was as well published in book form in 1977 by Macmillan Publishing, followed by a Literary Guild edition in Oct 1977 and Runted Books editions beginning in 1980.[ citation needed ] A cast recording was as well released by Buddah Records.[ citation needed ]

From February to July 1978 the production, presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust and several American entrepreneurs, toured Australia. It was staged get-go at Her Majesty's in Adelaide, South Commonwealth of australia, as part of the 10th Adelaide Festival of Arts,[30] before touring to Melbourne, Sydney, Townsville, Cairns,[31] and Brisbane, for two- to four-week runs. Original cast members Alfre Woodard, Aku Kadogo, Carol Maillard, and Lynn Whitfield featured in the prove, while it was directed by Oz Scott.[32]

In 1982 for colored girls... was adapted for tv set on WNET-TV, PBS, as function of The American Playhouse series.[33] Although for colored girls went from a play production to boob tube i, this product was dubbed a "telefilm" instead of a teleplay as the performance on WNET-TV was seen as a serious divergence from the Broadway product.[34]

In 2009 Tyler Perry announced that he would produce Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.[35] The film was the first project for 34th Street Films, Perry's new production visitor housed in Lionsgate The cast included Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashād, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington and Thandie Newton. Originally using the play's full championship, the film's title was shortened to For Colored Girls in September 2010.[35]

In the fall of 2019, The Public Theater revived the play. The product was directed by Leah C. Gardiner, with choreography by Camille A. Brown and featured a Deaf actress in the role of "Lady in Purple."[36] On July 29, 2021, it was announced the Public Theater's staging of the play would exist produced on Broadway in 2022.[37] It was after announced that the production will exist directed and choreographed by Brown.[38]

American Playhouse television receiver adaptation [edit]

In 1982 the play was adapted for boob tube on PBS station WNET-TV, every bit role of the American Playhouse.[33] The adaptation, directed by Oz Scott, was seen equally a serious departure from the Broadway production.[34] A review by The New York Times states: "What Miss Shange prefers to telephone call a choreopoem has been expanded into realistic settings that as well often resemble the sanitized atmosphere of an episode of Good Times. The cyberspace result has been a considerable reduction in the work's emotional impact."[33] As a result, the televised production is often seen as a diluted version of the original choreopoem.

Cast [edit]

  • Sarita Allen: Sechitaa
  • Trazana Beverley: Crystal (credited equally Trazana Beverly)
  • Laurie Carlos: Georgetta
  • Gregory T. Daniel: Toussaint
  • Jackie Davis: Second Man in Subway
  • Pedro De Pool: Emcee
  • Lisa Henley: Naomi
  • Roger Hill: 2d Man at Barbecue
  • Brent Jennings: Starting time Man at Barbecue
  • Charles Johnson: Boy in Subway
  • Oliver Lake: Flute Role player
  • Jack Landron: Bedroom Companion
  • Crystal Lilly: Sarah
  • Carol Maillard: Lu Anne (as Carol 50. Maillard)
  • Ntozake Shange: Woman with baby girl/Lady in Brown
  • Alfre Woodard
  • Lynn Whitfield

Motion picture adaptation [edit]

On March 25, 2009, the moving picture industry mag Variety reported[39] that Nzingha Stewart, a blackness female managing director, had acquired the feature motion picture rights to for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf from Shange and that Lionsgate had signed Stewart to create a screenplay adaptation and straight the film version of the play.

Stewart, at Lionsgate'southward direction, approached Tyler Perry near producing the motion-picture show. However, Perry told Lionsgate that if he produced it, he also wanted to write and direct it. Perry and then usurped the projection from Stewart and scrapped her script.[40] [41] The shift prompted controversy over whether Perry had the skill and consciousness to properly depict an iconic feminist work. Stewart remained on in the token position of executive producer of the movie.[xl] Amidst those critics were Oprah Winfrey, who expressed doubts over whether the volume should exist made into a film at all. Others had reservations based on Perry's position at the captain of such an important book in African American literature, particularly considering the controversies raised by Precious, a film he lent his name to.[42] [43]

On September 3, 2009, Lionsgate announced it had caused the distribution rights to Tyler Perry's 34th Street Films adaptation of the play, with principal photography originally scheduled to accept place in Atlanta, Georgia, in November and Dec 2009.[44] The film, which was retitled For Colored Girls, was released on November five, 2010, and was written, directed and produced by Perry. The bandage includes Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson, Michael Ealy, Macy Grayness and Omari Hardwick.[45] Mariah Carey had also been bandage, but pulled out in May 2010, citing medical reasons.[46]

When asked if she held reservations well-nigh Perry'south accommodation of her work, Shange responded: "I had a lot of qualms. I worried well-nigh his characterizations of women equally plastic."[47] In reference to the film mail-product, she stated that "I remember he did a very fine task, although I'm non certain I would call information technology a finished moving picture."[47]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Sources:[48]

Off-Broadway [edit]

Awards

  • 1977 Theatre World Award - Trazana Beverley
  • 1977 Obie Award - Distinguished Production, Ntozake Shange, Oz Scott and bandage

Broadway [edit]

Awards

  • 1977 Tony Honour for Best Featured Extra in a Play - Trazana Beverley
  • 1977 Theatre World Honor - Tania Robins
  • 1977 Drama Desk Honour for Outstanding Lighting Design - Jennifer Tipton

Nominations

  • 1977 Tony Award for All-time Play
  • 1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Extra in a Play - Trazana Beverley
  • 1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play - Oz Scott
  • 1977 Drama Desk Award Unique Theatrical Experience

In addition to receiving several accolades, the play has been described as a landmark piece in African American literature and black feminism.[49] [fifty] It has since go a cornerstone of blackness feminist writing and 20th-century drama.[vii]

Legacy [edit]

The title of For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is However Not Plenty: Coming of Historic period, Coming Out, and Coming Dwelling house, a 2012 anthology of essays edited past Keith Boykin, was based on the championship of Shange's play.[51] Shange's piece of work has also been transformed using different forms of media.[52] It has been continually performed in colleges and universities, art spaces, and theaters throughout the globe. It has been set in beauty shops, prisons, and other historical time periods. A Brazilian production dropped the word "colour" in the title, and a grouping of women in Kentucky fabricated it about class instead of race.[seven] In a Season Iv episode of A Dissimilar World, Freddie (Cree Summer) performs a segment from the play during an audition for the fictionalized Hillman College theater production, where evidence director Whitley (Jasmine Guy) rejects the piece, sarcastically commenting, "Now I know why colored girls consider suicide."

Poster art and design [edit]

The poster for the play and book (as pictured above) are past the New York-based graphic artist, Paul Davis.[53]

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Main source [edit]

  • Shange, Ntozake (2010). for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Simon & Schuster. ISBN9781439186817.

External links [edit]

  • for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf at the Internet Broadway Database
  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
  • for colored girls who take considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf at Theatricalia.com
  • Gans, Andrew, and Kenneth Jones. "For Colored Girls Revival, Starring Grammy Winner Republic of india.Arie, to Arrive on Broadway This Summertime", Playbill, March 10, 2008
  • "McNary, David, "Liongate Acquires 'Suicide'", Multifariousness, March 25, 2009.
  • "Sergio, "How Tyler Perry Got 'For Colored Girls...'", Shadow & Act, September 2010.
  • Ntozake Shange Papers, 1966-2016; Barnard Athenaeum and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

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