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for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a 1976 work by Ntozake Shange.It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the word choreopoem to describe. [5]
With a budget of $21 million, For Colored Girls was released on November 5, 2010, grossing $20.1 million in its opening weekend. The film's lead cast consists of ten women of color, seven of whom are based on the play's seven characters, only known by colour (e.g. "lady in red", "lady in brown", and "lady in yellow").
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. First published in 1975, this play should be recognized as an American classic.
Ntozake Shange’s iridescent choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf” is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experiences.
The late Ntozake Shange's "choreopoem" has many timeless moments in singing "a Black girl's song." Milwaukee Black Theatre Festival revives 'For Colored Girls' with vivid production Skip to main ...
After for colored girls, Shange continued to explore and utilize choreopoem, creating works such as boogie woogie landscapes (1977), From Okra to Greens/A Different Kinda Love Story: A Play/With Music & Dance (1978), Spell #7 (1979), and A photograph: lovers in motion (1979). Many other artists including her friend and collaborator Dianne ...
On September 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” opened at the Booth Theatre, forever reshaping the form and feel of ...